Quick Fix: vSphere with Tanzu – no persistent volumes available for this claim and no storage class

I’ve been grappling with vSphere with Tanzu for the past week or so and while I haven’t completely nailed how things operate end to end in this new world, i’ve been able to get to a point beyond the common “kubectl get nodes” which is where plenty of people kicking the tyres get to… and […] Read More

Wifi Coverage New Downstairs

Eero Mesh WiFi Review Part 2 – Setup and Performance Comparison

A few months ago I wrote about why I decided to go with the Eero extenders for WiFi at home and went over some of the technical specs of the Eero mesh router pack. In this post I am going to go through a little bit about the setup and then dive straight into some […] Read More

HashiConf Lightning Talk – Enhancing Mundane Deployments with Terraform

HashiConf took place a couple of weeks ago now, and during the event I presented a community based Lightning Talk live. The session is based on using Infrastructure as Code tooling to enhance mundane deployments and in the talk, I talk through how mundane approaches are still being used by lots of people and why […] Read More

Veeam Live – New v11 Announcements, Kubernetes Backup with Kasten and Industry Insights

We have one more to go! One more Major Veeam Virtual Event for the year and we have worked hard to ensure that even with all the virtual fatigue, Veeam Live is not to be missed! I am actually pretty excited about being involved with this event as it is for the most, actually, legitimately […] Read More

HashiConf Digital – Top Session Picks and Lightning Talks

HashiConf Digital gets underway shortly and will offer two days of product reveals, technical sessions and Lightning Talks attracting a huge number of attendees from around the devops world. It is free and open to all. I’m looking forward to attending a few sessions virtually to see what HashiCorp has to offer and to see […] Read More

Acquiring Kasten for Kubernetes Data backup, Disaster Recovery and Mobility

Today Veeam has acquired Kasten. This acquisition is focused on offering a pathway to achieving a multi-platform backup strategy leveraging both data protection technologies that now covers physical, virtual and containerised workloads..  In the Kubernetes eco-system, Kasten has quickly established its self as a top technology platform for the protection and data management of Kubernetes […] Read More

VMworld 2020 – Top Session Picks

VMworld 2020 is happening today! And as I have banged on about over the past week, this is a very very different VMworld. No one will be lining up for overflow… and there should be minimal people with hangovers… but this years VMworld will probably reach more people than ever! With that, I thought it […] Read More

VMworld 2020 vTrail

VMworld 2020 – Tech, Career and Community with the vTrail Map

VMworld has been leveraged by a lot of people to help advance their careers with a lot of advancement seeded by personal interactions at the conference. Social, community and networking at VMworld is a huge part of the event, but with this years event being virtual and online only, the social aspect of the event […] Read More

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