First, I would like to give some context to this blog post. I wrote part of this one day after my first VCDX-NV Defense at Palo Alto in Dec 2017 but decided not to post it because I wasn’t successful then. Well, its another 9 months where I submitted again and this time round I… Read More »
If you have been to be my NSX sessions or experience days, you probably might have seen this NSX Lucky Draw App that I created for my demos. I have been asked a few times to share this application and also over last year or so when I deal more with containers, I always wanted… Read More »
In this article, we will integrate NSX-T NCP and CNI to Openshift. Step 01: Tag the Logical Switches Ports connected to OCP-Master, OCP-Node01 and OCP-Node02 VMs. NSX-T Manager -> Switching -> LS-VIFs -> Related -> Ports -> Click on the respective logical ports -> Actions -> Manage Tags * You can highlight the port… Read More »
In this article, we will use Ansible to install Openshift 3.9. On the Master node: nano /usr/share/ansible/openshift-ansible/roles/lib_utils/action_plugins/sanity_checks.py add then (‘openshift_use_nsx’,False. cd /root wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vincenthanjs/openshift-nsxt/master/hosts cp hosts /etc/ansible/ -f cd /etc/ansible/ htpasswd -c /root/htpasswd admin If the above URL does not work. you can copy and paste the below into /etc/ansible/hosts #This is the file you replace… Read More »
In this article we start install RHEL and install Openshift. The main guide for the installation I reference from is at https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/openshift_container_platform/3.9/html-single/installation_and_configuration/. Chapter 2.6 Advanced Installation. Step 1: Create a VM and install RHEL from iso. I place this VM on the LS-MGMT01 logical switch and this has internet access. Therefore, when you clone the VM, they will be… Read More »
In this article, we are now going to start configuring NSX-T so that it will be ready for us to install Openshift and consume the networking and security services provided by NSX-T. The result is that Openshift can deliver on demand provisioning of all NSX-T components: Container Network Interface (CNI), NSX-T Container Plugin… Read More »
The past few days I have been involved in an Openshift + NSX-T POC. In fact, 2 POCs because we setup one time at the customer lab and at the same I also repeat the same steps in my own lab so that I can learn as well. Before I proceed further, I would to… Read More »
In this blog post, I will share my experience, hopefully step by step on installing PKS 1.0 on NSX-T 2.1. Pre-req You can refer to my previous blog posts on how to install NSX-T 2.1. http://blog.acepod.com/?p=480 References https://docs.pivotal.io/runtimes/pks/1-0/installing-nsx-t.html
PKS 1.0 has gone GA on the 8 Feb 2018! Its kinda weird that there is not much announcement on the web. I am super excited about PKS as it has native integration with NSX-T! Features Create, resize, delete, list, and show clusters through the PKS CLI Native support for NSX-T and Flannel Easily… Read More »
In this post, you will face the configs of the NSX 6.2.6 on-demand LB what was spun up by vRA 7.01. 1. For HTTP, you can select Cookie or Source IP for Persistence. 2. For HTTPS, SSL Passthrough is enabled by default. No persistence is configured. You can select Source IP or SSL Session… Read More »