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Interrogating Public Police Data with open-source technology and serverless methods ##* Update, the dashboards are currently Offline (June 17th). This was built as an educational tools and to demonstrate the art of the possible. If you are interested in funding or rebuilding within your own cloud subscription please contact me*## I wrote previously about using […]
Interrogating data using modern applications I love working with data and with visualisations. I am often at my happiest when working with a large data set trying to find the answer to questions or trying to present data in a way that make it more accessible without losing its meaning. In the UK, government departments […]
Tanzu Mission Control – Adding a vSphere 7 Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster One of the great parts of my job is that I get to collaborate and learn from some seriously clever folk in my team and across the company. Over the past few weeks I’ve been working in the same lab as Dean Lewis. We’ve […]
vROPs Dashboards – Kubernetes Namespaces ***Dashboard now available on VMware Code and GitHub*** A few weeks ago I installed the vROPs management pack for container monitoring, which provides a great overview of the kubernetes cluster, nodes and pods in the environment. This dashboard is built from the context of the containers world adaptor and is […]
Import Azure Rate Card to vROPs I’ve been working with a customer over the last day or so to import their Azure cost information (or Azure rate card) into vROPs so that they can run a what-if analysis to plan a migration to the public cloud. Within vROPs we have the option to upload our […]
VMware Cloud Foundation – Can’t deploy vRealize as no AVN is available For reasons entirely of my own making when I deployed my current lab, I did not create the VCF AVN networks during deployment. This wasn’t a problem at the time as I was focused on vSphere with kubernetes. However, I did come to […]
Bitnami Kubapps deployment to Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster with Helm V3 what is Kubeapps and why might I want to install it? Kubeapps is a web-based UI for deploying and managing applications in kubernetes clusters, it can be used to create and manage a service repository, manage applications and deploy applications. Things that will no doubt […]
Use an image hosted on Harbor – vSphere image registry Last post I added an image to the vSphere image registry, which is great – but how can I actually use that image? The image I uploaded was for busybox, which provides access to a range of simple UNIX tools. What I’m going to demonstrate […]
Push an image to the vSphere embedded image registry Harbor is used to provide an image registry service to namespaces provisioned on vSphere – it can be deployed from a single click within the vSphere cluster configuration. Once it has been deployed, you’ll be presented with a link to connect to the Harbor UI. Login […]
Application Ontology I’ve been thinking about the different services, policies and functions that support the delivery of applications to individual lines of business. Many of the organisations seem to struggle with this more than anything else in moving toward cloud adoption. As I’m often found saying “the technology can pretty much be made to do […]