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  • Tweak Application behaviors with NSX ALB

    calendar Nov 6, 2022 · 5 min read · VMWare Avi NSX-ALB  ·
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    Not every application is designed to leverage a load balancer. Early load balancing solutions capitalized on this fact - which may seem odd. The solution to the supportability issue creates new opportunity; we'll look at some examples here. Adjusting application behaviors quickly becomes a powerful tool when enhancing …


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  • GitOps with NSX Advanced Load Balancer and Jenkins

    calendar Jan 16, 2022 · 6 min read · Load Balancing VMWare Avi GitOps Jenkins JSON Design Patterns Network Automation NSX-ALB  ·
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    GitOps GitOps, a term coined in 2017, describes the practice of performing infrastructure operations from a Git repository. In this practice, we easily develop the ability to re-deploy any broken infrastructure (like application managers), but that doesn't really help infrastructure engineers. From the perspective of …


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  • Leverage Idempotent, Declarative Profiles with the NSX-ALB (Avi) REST API

    calendar Jan 2, 2022 · 5 min read · Load Balancing TLS VMWare Network Security Python Avi Programmability Design Patterns Network Automation NSX-ALB  ·
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    Idempotence and Declarative Methods - not just buzzwords Idempotence Coined by Benjamin Peirce, this term indicates that a mathematical operation will produce a consistent result, even with repetition. Idempotence is much more complicated subject in mathematics and computer science. IT and DevOps use a simplified …


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  • The winds of change in cloud operations, and why integrations like NSX Data Center 3.2 + Advanced Load Balancer are important

    calendar Dec 26, 2021 · 4 min read · Load Balancing VMWare Datacenter Networking Avi NSX-T  ·
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    **Note: This feature has been deprecated by VMware The Jetstreams Cloud operators now provide two completely different classes of service to customers: Self-Service, VMs, Operating System Templates Generally mature, some private cloud operators are smoothing out CMPs or such, but work as intended from a customer …


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  • NSX-T 3.2 and NSX ALB (Avi) Deployment Error - "Controller is not reachable. {0}"

    calendar Dec 22, 2021 · 2 min read · Load Balancing VMWare Python Avi NSX-T Programmability NSX-ALB  ·
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    Note: This feature has been deprecated by VMware NSX-T 3.2 has been released, and has a ton of spiffy features. The NSX ALB integration is particularly neat, but while repeatedly (repeatably) breaking the integration to learn more about it, I ran into this error: When deploying NSX ALB appliances from the NSX Manager, …


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  • Get rid of certificate errors with Avi (NSX-ALB) and Hashicorp Vault!

    calendar Oct 10, 2021 · 7 min read · Load Balancing TLS VMWare Network Security Avi NSX-ALB  ·
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    Have you ever seen this error before? This is a really important issue in enterprise infrastructure because unauthenticated TLS connections teach our end users to be complacent and ignore this error. TLS Authentication SSL/TLS for internal enterprise administration typically only addresses the confidentiality aspects …


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  • Get an A on ssllabs.com with VMware Avi / NSX ALB (and keep it that way with SemVer!)

    calendar Sep 19, 2021 · 5 min read · Load Balancing TLS Avi NSX-ALB  ·
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    Cryptographic security is an important aspect of hosting any business-critical service. When hosting a public service secured by TLS, it is important to strike a balance between compatibility (The Availability aspect of CIA), and strong cryptography (the Integrity or Authentication and Confidentiality aspects of CIA). …


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  • VMware NSX ALB (Avi Networks) and NSX-T Integration, Installation

    calendar Sep 10, 2021 · 4 min read · Load Balancing VMWare Avi BGP NSX-T NSX-ALB  ·
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    Note: I created a common baseline for pre-requisites in this previous post. We'll be following VMware's Avi + NSX-T Design guide. This will be a complete re-install. Avi Vantage appears to develop some tight coupling issues with using the same vCenter for both Layer 2 and NSX-T deployments - which is not an issue that …


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  • VMworld 2021 is right around the corner! Here are my top 10 sessions!

    calendar Aug 25, 2021 · 8 min read · VMWare Network Security Avi NSX-T Network Automation  ·
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    VMworld 2021 is online this year I'll really miss some of the sessions and exploration we've had in past years in person, but I think VMware made the right call this year. We can expect to see a fundamental shift with online conventions - and this will need some unique strategy compared to previous years. The Basics I …


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  • NSX Advanced Load Balancer - NSX-T Service Engine Creation Failures: CC_SE_CREATION_FAILURE and Transport Node Not Found to create service engine

    calendar Jul 5, 2021 · 3 min read · VMWare Datacenter Networking Avi NSX-T Design Patterns Network Automation NSX-ALB  ·
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    TL;DR If you see either of these errors, check grep 'ERROR' /opt/avi/log/cc_agent_go_{{ cloud }} for the potential cause. In my case, the / character was not correctly processed by Avi's Golang client (facing vCenter). The Problem When trying to configure NSX ALB + NSX-T on my home lab, I am presented nothing but the …


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