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Sometimes you gotta run before you can walk!

"Anthony Edward "Tony" Stark, also known as IRON MAN."

vSphere Integrated Containers Part I: OVA Deployment

Environment Pre-Requisites vSphere Enterprise Plus license or vSphere Remote Office Branch Office (ROBO) Advanced (!) Dependency on the vDistributed Switch VIC also supports VMware NSX User with administrative credentials to vCenter Internet Access for downloading images min. two vDistributed Switch Port Groups for public communication (VCH to external network) for inter containers communication create a dedicated port group for use as the bridge network for each VCH If DHCP is not available on these segments, please, request a range of free IP-Addresses.

VMware vSphere Integrated Containers: Introduction

I´m very keen on everything related to Cloud-Native and all topics around the decoupling of a process from the underlying operating system and as well much more on the infrastructure underneath in order to run those distributed systems, which are the result by the end of the day. For me personally, it became so present in 2016 for the first time and far more when I decided to work for VMware.

Sometimes you gotta run before you can walk

…and the first lines are the main ones when you´re working on your first post. Many, many thoughts had been running through my head before I decided to write a blog…“Where to start?”…“Is it just another blog?”…and the most frightening idea…“What if YOU, the reader, don´t like what I´m writing about?” So what…I´d like to handle these thoughts like Tony Stark did it in one of my absolute favorite movies Iron Man (1), where he told J.