Four Reasons Your Cloud Platform Needs a Blog in 2024
Note: My good friend Bryan Ross has extended upon this article on his Chief Therapy Officer blog
Documenting your Household
🏷️ home
While reading through my RSS feeds last week, I came across a HackerNews post about Home Documentation.
Platform Engineering - The Fundamentals of Developer Experience
Teams launching new internal developer platforms often fall into the trap of creating technically-advanced solutions, using cutting edge tooling, but forgetting to think much about usability from the customer perspective. I think this is typically because these platforms been…
The Bacon Test
It's fair to say that the primary toolset used by our private-cloud engineers (vRealize Automation and vRealize Orchestrator) are not widely used, and we historically have not had have a large pool of experienced local talent from which to draw. We therefore tended to hire…
More re-organisation
🏷️ admin
I've moved the site out of Ghost (where I'd managed to end up in some version cul-de-sac, which was going to require multiple intermediate migrations to get out of), and into Jekyll.
Using the vRealize 7.x REST API to get a tenant's Event Broker subscriptions
After migrating from vRealize Automation (vRA) 6.2, we've recently started the long-overdue work of investigating the new functionality introduced with the event broker. We're still using the state-change triggered workflows for machine life-cycle integration between vRA and…
Using VMware vRealize Orchestrator to run a Jenkins job and get the results
🏷️ vmware-aria-automation-orchestrator
VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) is pretty flexible, but there are times when you still need to execute a job on Jenkins. It's pretty easy to create a Jenkins job which you can run by hitting a specific URL and vRO can do this in a couple of lines of JavaScript:-
vRealize Automation - Setting the Orchestrator Server using Custom Properties
🏷️ vmware-aria-automation-orchestrator, vmware-aria-automation
We're soon going to be implementing multiple vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) servers in our vRealize Automation (vRA) development environment to allow people to choose different endpoints. Essentially if someone's working on a workflow, that shouldn't affect a different developer…
Auto-generating PowerShell documentation in MarkDown
🏷️ powershell
I don't mind writing documentation for my scripts, but I find that most documentation writing exercises tends to suffers from two problems:-
Using an Ubuntu CrashPlan appliance to backup a NAS
🏷️ home
I've recently upgraded some of my home setup; instead of Windows Home Server 2011 managing everything, I'm now using a NetGear ReadyNAS 104, to serve files and using Windows Server 2012 R2 for the other functions.