I'm about to give a presentation to company-wide IT (a few hundred peeps) about Kubernetes, a technology I *really* only started getting into seriously ~6 months back or so and remain very much a novice.

Wish me luck! 😬

(Also, I'm going to deliberately pronounce it "koo-ber-nets" just to piss off anyone in the audience who does know better.)

#CoSoTech

I just came across a great 🐦thread of 🐦threads breaking #Kubernetes concepts into tweet-sized chunks:

https://twitter.com/danielepolencic/status/1298543151901155330

Learn-scrolling > doom-scrolling.
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I've lately been working on a near-complete overhaul of my #VMware vRealize Automation environment to make it my dynamic and flexible, and less dependent upon hardcoded values. To achieve that, I've had to learn a bit about interacting with the vRA REST API, and I wrote a post to document and share what I learned along the way:

https://www.virtuallypotato.com/getting-started-vra-rest-api/

#CoSoTech

Great things are possible when your private search company doesn't rely on advertising revenue.

https://twitter.com/Neeva/status/1529172033862520835

If you haven't checked out Neeva yet, I highly recommend it! It's the first alternative search engine I've actually been able to stick with for more than a few months, and it has dramatically improved (and sped up!) my online experience.

https://neeva.com/features

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#CoSoTech

I recently came across https://ohmyposh.dev/ and I think I'm in love.

It's a bit similar to `oh-my-zsh` in that it's a dynamic prompt theme engine but (despite the name) `oh-my-posh` works for *any* shell, on any system. I regularly bounce between zsh and pwsh on both Linux and Windows (native PowerShell as well as zsh/pwsh in WSL), and it's awesome having the same themed prompt wherever I go.

I can even set the local shell to pull the config from Github for ultimate portability!

#CoSoTech #CoSoSec alert!

There's a new #VMware security bulletin impacting Workspace ONE Access, and VMware Identity Manager with authentication bypass and privilege escalation vulnerabilities.

Patch your systems swiftly.

#vExpert

https://blogs.vmware.com/security/2022/05/vmsa-2022-0014-what-you-need-to-know.html

Over on The Bird, Corey is running an insightful thread on how to answer dumb interview questions.

https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig/status/1523847807978774528

#CoSoTech

I didn't see it called out in the release notes, but the ability to define runtime environments holding external modules for Polyglot languages is available now in #vRealize Orchestrator 8.8!

No more managing dependencies per-script! This will make it easier to do cool automation stuff for my vSphere and Cloud environments.

#VMware #vExpert #CoSoTech

https://vmwarecode.com/2022/04/25/vra-cloud-april-release-brings-very-good-features-environment-for-python-module/amp/

Fellow #vSphere admins,
Allow me to draw your attention to this KB:

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/87837

VCSA performance issues after upgrading 7.0u2 to 7.0u3

"The resolution for this issue is simple and can be run online. We suggest that every customer who has upgraded to VCSA 7.0u3 run this even if they do not currently experience an issue."

#CoSoTech

One Weird Trick to make you an IT wizard!

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Well this looks handy:

https://curlconverter.com/#

#CoSoTech

I spent some time over the past week or so exploring how to enable Active Directory authentication for my #Tanzu Community Edition Kubernetes cluster, and I finally got it working the way I wanted it to.

Here's how I did it:
https://www.virtuallypotato.com/ldaps-authentication-tanzu-community-edition/
#VMware #vExpert #CoSoTech

I've been wrestling all week with getting LDAPS authentication working on a VMWare Tanzu Community Edition Kubernetes cluster using pinniped and dex. It's taken a lot of fussing but I *think* I finally got it working the way I want it to, and I've learned a shit ton about k8s in the process.

It's a small victory but it feels pretty good.

Now to tear it down and do it again so I can document it!

#CoSoTech

https://twitter.com/forrestbrazeal/status/1498666241581592577

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I wonder if this is related to why #VMware vCenter Converter got pulled.

https://www.signal-labs.com/blog/vmware-driver-0day-reversing

#CoSoTech #CoSoSec

So... any VI admins have an alternative p2v tool they can recommend for converting physical Windows and Linux computers into vSphere virtual machines?

Asking for a friend who happens to be me.

#CoSoTech #VMware

https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2022/02/vcenter-converter-unavailable-for-download.html

1) This blog post explains how a DNS resolver functions by stepping through a tiny DNS resolver written in 80 lines of Go. I think that's pretty cool:

https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/02/01/a-dns-resolver-in-80-lines-of-go/

2) Maybe I should learn Go. It looks nice.

#CoSoTech

This looks like a handy resource - a comprehensive list of free SaaS/PaaS offerings available for developers to use in their side projects:

https://free-for.dev/

#cosotech

#CoSoTech

Looks like I should give Vivaldi another try. Very refreshing to see a sane crypto take from a technology company.
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The entire crypto fantasy is designed to lure you into a system that is extremely inefficient, consumes vast amounts of energy, uses large amounts of hardware that could better be spent doing something else and will quite often result in the average person losing any money they might put into it.

https://vivaldi.com/blog/why-vivaldi-will-never-create-thinkcoin/

T-Mobile begins blocking iPhone users from enabling iCloud Private Relay in the US

The carriers wrote that the feature cuts off networks and servers from accessing “vital network data and metadata and could impact “operator’s ability to efficiently manage telecommunication networks.”
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iPhone users may want to find alternative VPN solutions so they can continue cutting off the carriers from their vital metadata.

#CoSoTech #CoSoSec

https://9to5mac.com/2022/01/10/t-mobile-block-icloud-private-relay/