Bassem Rezkalla

Why apply for the vExpert program

Overview I decided to find sometime before the end of the year and about a month before closing the application…

3 years ago

Removing Stale Antrea Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters from NSX UI

Overview During a recent incident I accidentally deleted a Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster which had Antrea CNI integrated with NSX. To…

3 years ago

Gain Insight into Tanzu Kubernetes Clusters using VMware Project Octant

Overview Note: After I have written this blog post I got to hear that work on maintaining project Octant might…

3 years ago

Enable Workload Management (vSphere with Tanzu) with NSX ALB

Overview I am just back from VMware Explore in Barcelona after presenting an interesting session about securing containers with Antrea…

3 years ago

Deploying NSX NAPP on upstream (a.k.a native) Kubernetes – Part II

Overview In the second part of this blog post I will be finalising my NSX Application Platform deployment on upstream…

4 years ago

Deploying NSX NAPP on upstream (a.k.a native) Kubernetes – Part I

Overview In a previous blog post (HERE) I deployed NSX Application Platform on top of TKGs kubernetes cluster, however I…

4 years ago

Deploying TKG 2 workload clusters with vSphere 8 with Tanzu

Overview With the release of vSphere 8, VMware introduced Tanzu Kubernetes Grid clusters version 2, with TKG 2 you can…

4 years ago

Deploying TKG workload clusters across vSphere 8 Availability Zones

Overview vSphere 8 introduced zonal supervisor cluster deployments in order to improve Tanzu workload resiliency, by enabling TKG clusters deployments…

4 years ago

Deploying Tanzu Workload Availability Zones on vSphere 8 with NSX-T Networking

Overview One of the cool features that was introduced with vSphere 8 is Workload Availability zones, which is basically HA…

4 years ago

Upgrading my lab environment to vSphere 8

Overview vSphere 8 was announced during VMware Explore US with a lot of new powerful and cool features targeting bringing…

4 years ago