Why API functionality is one of the most sought after capabilities for infrastructure, software or application? Today’s DevOps processes and tools aim to achieve a model of continuous software development right from coding to deploying and maintaining the desired state of the infrastructure and applications. Besides, for Automation and DevOps processes to work, infrastructure needs to be available as code. API is the starting point whereby you can start API automation for those repetitive operational tasks. This blog will cover the REST API collection and examples for Equinix Metal Day 1 and Day 2 operations via Postman. This Postman’s import collection capabilities will assist you with sample API calls. This…
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vRealize Automation 8 Code Stream – Part 3 Continuous Integration & Deployment
vRealize Automation 8 Code Stream – Part 3 Continuous Integration & Deployment In part 1 of this blog series, I covered how to create vRealize Automation Code Stream Endpoint for Jenkins Server. In part 2 of this blog series, we went through how to create vRealize Automation Code Stream Pipeline with Jenkins Jobs. In this last part of the blog series, I will cover CI/CD for a webapp and run the vRA Code Stream Pipeline which will trigger Jenkins job in the backend that uses Git & Ansible. vRealize Automation Code Stream Introduction – You will find more information about vRA Code Stream in VMware Docs. However, a high level,…
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vRealize Automation 8 Code Stream – Part 2 Create Pipeline for Jenkins CI/CD Job with Git.
vRealize Automation 8 Code Stream – Part 2 Create Pipeline for Jenkins CI/CD Job with Git. In part 1 of this blog series, I covered how to create vRealize Automation Code Stream Endpoint for Jenkins Server. In this 2nd part of the blog series, I will cover how to create vRealize Automation Code Stream Pipeline with Jenkins for CI/CD with Git as Source Code Management. vRealize Automation Code Stream Introduction – You will find more information about vRA Code Stream in VMware Docs. However, a high level, vRealize Automation Code Stream models the tasks in your software release process and automates the development and test of developer code to release…
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vRealize Automation 8 Code Stream – Part 1 Create Endpoint for Jenkins CI/CD Job with Git.
vRealize Automation 8 Code Stream – Part 1 Create Endpoint for Jenkins CI/CD Job with Git. In this 1st part of the blog series, I will cover how to integrate vRA 8 Code Stream with Jenkins, Create a Code Stream Endpoint to run Jenkins Job for CI/CD with Git as Source Code Management. vRealize Automation Code Stream Introduction – You will find more information about vRA Code Stream in VMware Docs. However, a high level, vRealize Automation Code Stream models the tasks in your software release process and automates the development and test of developer code to release it to production. It integrates your release process with developer tools to…
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REST APIs for DellEMC AppSync via Talend API Tester
REST APIs for DellEMC AppSync via Talend API Tester. This blog introduces ‘DellEMC AppSync’ operations using RESTful API via ‘Talend API Tester’. The main goal of this blog is to provide handy examples for ‘DellEMC AppSync’ operations using API Calls. In past, I have posted following blogs which covers Postman API application for VxRail and vRealize Automation. RESTFul API for DellEMC VxRail via Postman vRealize Automation REST API – Deploy 3-Tier App with NSX Networks. Apparently, you could always use various API tools/extensions/applications available, however, after writing operations using Postman API, I am going to use Talend API Tester in this blog. A beginner level introduction to DellEMC AppSync. AppSync…
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vRealize Automation REST API – Deploy 3-Tier App with NSX Networks.
vRealize Automation REST API – Deploy 3 Tier App with NSX networks On-Demand on VCF on VxRail In this blog, I will cover vRealize Automation operations using REST API via Postman. The main goal of this blog is to provide handy example for vRA operation using API’s. The vRealize Automation REST API provides consumer, administrator, and provider-level access to the service catalog with the same services that support the vRealize Automation console user interface. You can perform vRealize Automation functions programmatically by using REST API service calls. The vRealize Automation REST API offers the multiple services and functions. For detailed offering, please refer VMware Programming Guide for vRA. REST Client…
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RESTFul API for DellEMC VxRail via Postman
RESTFul API for DellEMC VxRail via Postman. In this blog, I will cover VxRail operations using RESTful API via Postman. The main goal of this blog is to provide handy example for VxRail operation using API’s. RESTful API reference guides can occasionally be long and yield significant effort to absorb therefore this blog gives some of the most common operational examples using Rest API’s. Before we go through step-by-step API examples, I would like to highlight some background on DellEMC VxRail platform & Postman. VxRail, powered by Dell EMC PowerEdge server platforms and VxRail HCI System Software, features next-generation technology to future proof your infrastructure and enable deep integration across…
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Kubernetes Architecture Core Concepts
Kubernetes important core concepts! In this blog, I am going to cover a basic overview of the Kubernetes Cluster Architecture. We will drill down to each of these components, we will see roles & responsibility of these components. The Kubernetes cluster consists of set of nodes which may be physical or virtual, they could be located on-premises or on public clouds that hosts applications in form of containers. Kubernetes Architecture Core Concepts – Now, somebody needs to load, control and manage the containers therefore there are control or master nodes in the cluster. The master nodes are responsible to manage the Kubernetes cluster by storing information of nodes, planing…
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Automating the enterprise storage PowerMax using Ansible Modules
Automating the enterprise storage PowerMax using Ansible Modules In this blog, I am going to cover Automating the enterprise storage PowerMax using Ansible Modules. It has become very successful the way you manage storage, my first experience with EMC storage arrays was back in 2004 where I was tasked to work on Symmetrix 8800. Now we are into the PowerMax generation with NvME thus the product came long way so do we. As we largely look at automation and orchestration as part of delivering modern infrastructure & application services, its an important to automate storage tasks that never going to get old-fashioned. These tasks are mainly creation and provisioning of a…
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Dell EMC VxFlex HCI Platform for Kubernetes Stateful Applications
Dell EMC VxFlex HCI Platform for Kubernetes Stateful Applications This blog showcase VxFlex OS Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver to deliver persistent storage for PostgreSQL database running on Kubernetes Container VxFlex Integrated Systems and VxFlex Ready Nodes, also known as the Flex family, create a server-based SAN by combining storage virtualization software, known as VxFlex OS, with Dell EMC PowerEdge servers to deliver flexibility, scalability, and capacity on demand. Local storage resources are combined to create a virtual pool of block storage with varying performance tiers. The Flex family enables you to start small (with as little as four nodes) and scale incrementally. VxFlex OS is capable of supporting a…