When deploying a v2 cluster you may notice that an input field for the capv user password is missing. To be able to set a password you will have to deploy the systemsettings cluster add-on, however with following the default wizard settings the add-on deployment gets stuck. Not only does the add-on deployment get …

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Telco Cloud Automation 2.1 introduced a new feature to be able to perform better health checks for deployed Kubernetes clusters. This post will explore that functionality. The diagnosis can be run against management clusters, workload clusters or specific nodepools. When going into the details of each of those objects …

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As the amount of features delivered by Telco Cloud Automation increases there is going to be an impact on the sizing of the appliances. This post is going to explore what exactly has changed between 2.0 and 2.1 from a sizing perspective. The following table summarizes the sizing requirements for each of the components …

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While most of of the new features on the CaaS side in Telco Cloud Automation are utilized by Workload Clusters we will explore some new functionality for Management cluster deployemts in this post. Telco Cloud Automation 2.1 introduces a new v2 CaaS cluster api version. New functionality includes the following: AKO …

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Telco Cloud Automation 2.1 was released last week and this post will explore the newly introduced feature to directly access Active Directoy authentication via the TCA Manager. Release Notes description The release notes cover this topic in a rather brief statement: 1Integration with external Active Directory system …

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If you are using vCloud Director or vRealize Automation you will know that both products allow for custom extensibility via similar frameworks by being able to utilize a message bus to trigger workflows based on events. This blog post will explore how to achieve a similar outcome using VMware Integrated OpenStack. …

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There is a regular ask in various community channels on how to be able to map the vCloud Director virtual machine name to the exact VM in vCenter Server. This blog post will look at an easy mechanism to do so since the Flash client is now either deprecated or completely gone depending on which vCloud Director verison …

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Let's take a quick look at what TCI, TCP, TCA and TCOPs are and how they fit into a Telco Cloud environment. VMware recently did a couple of renames and reshuffles around the telco product portfolio, evolving what used to be vCloud NFV to Telco Cloud Infrastructure and introducing a couple of other technology bundles …

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It has been a while since my last post and I partly blame the job change on it. lots to do, little time... those were the words I have written for this exact post back in 2015, however they still apply in 2020 as well apparently. This is a repost from an old blog of myself way back then simply to test out Hugo, diving …

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