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    8 May, 2020
    VMware Container Service Extension 2.6.1 Installation step by step
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    One of the most requested feature with previous versions of the VMware Container Service Extension (CSE) is to add a native UI to it. As of CSE 2.6 we have added a native UI to CSE, which is adding to the friendliness of CSE and will make it much more appealing to many of our cloud providers. At just few clicks, our customers can deploy a K8S clusters at our Cloud Providers with filling few easy to understand fields.

    Kubeconfig file will be auto generated as well and can be handed out right away to the developer limiting the efforts required by the tenant operation team/cloud providers administrators. Here is a quick screenshot teaser of what CSE look like. You can find a nice demo of CSE 2.6.1 UI at my following blog post: Cloud Director Kubernetes as a Service with CSE 2.6.x Demo

    For more info on what is new with CSE 2.6.x please check my following blog post: vCloud Director Container Service Extension 2.6.x is here

     

    Container Service Extension Create New Cluster

     

    In this post, I am assuming you have an existing vCloud Director environment and AMQP already configured. To start the installation of CSE 2.6.1, you will need a supported OS. In my case, I have decided to go with CentOS 8.1.… Read More

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    6 May, 2020
    Running vCD Cli fail with the following error: ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘_sqlite3’
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    After installing the VMware Container Service Extension, which install the vCD CLI in the process, vCD CLI kept failing to start and complaining about not finding sqlite3 module as showing below.  I was installing on CentOS 8.1, but even then it sounds like the sqlite version included with CentOS is out of date for what vCD CLI require to be installed. Below is what the error looked like.

    # vcd --help
Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/rohan/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/vcd_cli/browsercookie/__init__.py", line 18, in <module> from pysqlite2 import dbapi2 as sqlite3
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pysqlite2' During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/rohan/.local/bin/vcd", line 6, in <module> from vcd_cli.vcd import vcd File "/home/rohan/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/vcd_cli/vcd.py", line 121, in <module> from vcd_cli import login # NOQA File "/home/rohan/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/vcd_cli/login.py", line 24, in <module> from vcd_cli import browsercookie File "/home/rohan/.local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/vcd_cli/browsercookie/__init__.py", line 20, in <module> import sqlite3 File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/sqlite3/__init__.py", line 23, in <module> from sqlite3.dbapi2 import * File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/sqlite3/dbapi2.py", line 27, in <module> from _sqlite3 import *
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named '_sqlite3'

    While the steps below is mainly focused on how to fix the issue to be able to install vCD or CSE, the same steps will be relevant to anyone having a similar ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ‘_sqlite3’ error in Python to install any other application.… Read More

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    5 May, 2020
    CSE 2.6.1 Error: Default template ubuntu-16.04_k8-1.15_weave-2.5.2_rev3 with revision 0 not found. Unable to start CSE server.
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    While trying to run my Container Service Extension 2.6.1 after a successful installation. I kept getting the following error “Default template ubuntu-16.04_k8-1.15_weave-2.5.2_rev3 with revision 0 not found. Unable to start CSE server.”

    To fix this you will need to:

    1. Edit your CSE config.yaml file to include the right name of the default template and revision number. (Much more on this below)
    2. Encrypt your CSE config file again
    3. Re-Run CSE with your encrypted config file

    In this post I will explain this in a bit more details for those hitting the same issue, as the resolution is quite simple but might not be as obvious if you are doing this for the first time.

    For a start, here is what the exact error look like:

    [root@vtcse01 Python-3.7.3]# cse run --config encrypted-config.yaml
Required Python version: = 3.7.3
Installed Python version: 3.7.3 (default, May 4 2020, 15:36:31)
[GCC 8.3.1 20190507 (Red Hat 8.3.1-4)]
Password for config file decryption:
Decrypting 'encrypted-config.yaml'
Validating config file 'encrypted-config.yaml'
Connected to AMQP server (VTAMQP01.vt.com:5672)
InsecureRequestWarning: Unverified HTTPS request is being made. Adding certificate verification is strongly advised.
Connected to vCloud Director (vcd.vt.com:443)
Connected to vCenter Server 'vtvc01' as '[email protected]' (vtvc01.vt.com:None)
Config file 'encrypted-config.yaml' is valid
Loading k8s template definition from catalog
Found K8 template 'ubuntu-16.04_k8-1.15_weave-2.5.2'

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    28 Apr, 2020
    Cloud Director App Launchpad Demo
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    Cloud Director App Launchpad enables Service Providers to offer a marketplace of applications within VMware Cloud Director. App Launchpad is a free plug-in for VMware Cloud Director that provides a user interface to easily access and launch applications from VMware Cloud Director content catalogs. Using App Launchpad, developers and DevOps engineers can launch applications to VMware Cloud Director in seconds.

     Bitnami supply over 120 pre-packaged Open Source applications that can be pushed to the App Launchpad marketplace in no time. It will allow VMware Cloud Providers to offer over 120 Open Source pre-packaged applications to their customers in no time.  

    In this video, I will take you through a full demo of what the end tenant experience with the App Launchpad market place look in Cloud Director 10.1 look like, how to push a Bitnami application to App Launchpad, as well conclude with going through the Cloud Provider interface of the App Launchpad. 

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    27 Apr, 2020
    VMware Cloud Architecture Toolkit 5.0 is here!!
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    Thanks to the great efforts of my colleague Martin Hosken, VMware Cloud Architecture Toolkit (Known as vCAT) is updated to version 5.0. vCAT has always been a great guide to our Cloud Providers on how to best architect/build their Cloud Providers stack. vCAT 5.0 is no exception and include tons valuable information for our Cloud Providers. Highly recommended!

    In this new VMware Cloud Provider Platform guide, you will learn how to take full advantage of VMware Cloud Provider Platform, understand how it works and how it can be designed with this comprehensive eBook. You can access vCAT 5.0 for free at the following link: vCAT 5.0 download or by clicking the image of the book cover below.

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    23 Apr, 2020
    VMware Cloud Director App Launchpad 1.0 Step by Step Installation
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    As the VMware Cloud Director has been evolving and adding features to help cloud providers better serve their customers, and help them target new markets, we are introducing Cloud Director App Launchpad bundled as a free extension with Cloud Director 10.1. App Launchpad will allow the Cloud provider to offer a Curated catalog of applications for vCD tenants, where they can deploy applications at a single click. The end user will be able to deploy these applications without having to understand the infrastructure it hosts it, networking configuration, firewall, Public IP or so on, as all of it will be automated in the back-end.

    As VMware had acquired Bitnami (The leader of Packaged Open Source Applications) a bit over a year ago, it makes no surprise to anyone that Bitnami provides over ~130 Open Source Applications ready to serve to end tenants in the Cloud Director App Launchpad. That’s not all, as beyond the Bitnami, Cloud Director App Launchpad support another two sources for applications:

    • ISV apps from VMware Cloud Marketplace
    • In-house apps

    This will allow our cloud providers to have a nicely populated catalog from day one as well the freedom to add their own custom offering to it. Before starting on the installation instructions, the below screenshot demonstrate what the marketplace of App Launchpad look like:

    Now you know how nice it looks like, let’s get started on how to get it up and running.… Read More

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