Deploy the AVI/NSX ALB Controller/s using Ansible

In this post, we will go through the process of deploying an AVI Controller cluster. The reason for deploying this as a cluster is to emulate a production deployment. AVI is supported on a single controller, but you lose control plane high availability. If your resource-constrained in your lab (AVI controllers are rather big), If … Read more

How To Use Ansible To Automate AVI deployments in a VMware Cloud

Introduction Server & infrastructure automation now plays an essential role in systems administration due to the disposable nature of modern environments. Tools such as Ansible are typically used to streamline the process of automating server setup by establishing standard procedures for new servers while also reducing human error associated with manual setups. It also offers the ability to … Read more

Lab Deployment of K8s using Ansible Part 1

This series will document my journey in creating a Kubernetes cluster in my home lab, which consists of a handful of mac minis with ESXi 7.02 installed and some shared storage. I appreciated that most people would use a public cloud offering for this service but to understand how this service works, I decided to … Read more