Recently I decided to move my cloud native workloads from my primary datacentre in Utrecht to the secondary in Southport, UK. After getting NSX-T up and running in my nested compute cluster, it was time to begin the installation of Pivotal Container Service (PKS). As PKS 1.1 had just been released, it made sense to go with the latest version. Continue reading
MySQL
Deploying MySQL on CentOS 7 for vRealize Automation blueprints
Over the weekend I began preparing a multi-tier application blueprint in vRealize Automation for an upcoming talk at the UK North-West VMUG. Rather than re-invent the wheel (and more importantly because I’m lazy), I decided to re-use a blueprint from the VMware {code} site. The one I’d chosen used MySQL, which for a quick and dirty live demo is ideal. Continue reading
