Over five years ago I bought an Apple MacBook Pro to learn Go and deep dive into things like containers and Kubernetes. My reasoning was simple, OSX was “*nix” like, the keyboard was amazing, and I could use Docker Desktop to run and manage containers on this machine. I could have used a Windows machine or built a Linux machine, but I wanted the ease of use of Mac, without having to worry about the constant hassles of patching (Windows) or limitations on drivers and power management (Linux).

Introduction OpenShift Container Platform and OpenShift Data Foundations can supply all your data storage needs, however sometimes you want to leverage an external storage array directly using storage protocols such as NFS or iSCSI. In many cases these storage networks will be served from dedicated network segments or VLANs and use dedicated network ports or network cards to handle the traffic. On traditional Operating Systems like RHEL, you would use tools such as nmcli and network-manager to configure settings such as MTU and or create bonded connections, but in Red Hat Core OS, these tools are not directly available to you.

Installing Tanzu Community Edition on vSphere Over the past year, I have heard much about VMware Tanzu, but have yet to experience what it is or how it works. Given my infrastructure background, I am interested in how it installs, and how does one maintain it long term. So with those questions in mind, I decided to try installing Tanzu Community Edition. What is Tanzu? Tanzu is VMware’s productized version of Kubernetes, designed to run on AWS, Azure, and vSphere.

OpenShift has supported Windows Containers with the Windows Machine Config Operator for the past year, starting with OCP 4.6. Initial Windows Container support required running your platform in Azure or AWS. With the release of 4.7, the WMCO also supported hosting machines in VMWare. However, when deploying in a VMWare environment you had to spend time configuring a base Windows image, using tools such as sysprep and VMware templates. What if you wanted to use a bare metal host(s), or wanted to take advantage of existing Windows servers that you already manage.