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    • Partheeban Kandasamy (PK)
      Sr. Product Manager @ VMW EUC
      vExpert '20, '21
      Passion: Automation, EUC, Cloud, Serverless, k8s, Homelab
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    Registered mode w/ a focus on Windows 10

     published on  included in EUC
    Registered mode is a capability in UEM that allows IT to deliver a secure way for Employees to access corporate data using Workspace ONE without having to manage their devices. While the core philosophy behind Registered mode is the same across different platforms, the problem it addresses on various platforms are slightly different. Understanding its origin will shed some light into how you can effectively utilize this capability and provide seamless access to your Employees Evolution of Registered Mode As a technologist that’s been following and absorbing all the progress that’s been happening this space, I wanted to start this post by covering the evolution of Registered Mode with Workspace ONE over the last 4-5 years.
     Windows10, RegisteredMode

    Edge Services Observability for Unified Access Gateway

    Arun Balaji Giridharan published on  included in EUC
    Edge Services Observability Unified Access Gateway (UAG) is a key component in most VMware End User Computing deployments, including Workspace ONE and Horizon. The UAG hosts various Edge Services like VMware Tunnel, Content Gateway, Secure Email Gateway, Reverse Proxy and Horizon Secure (External) Access. Additionally, the UAG can also provide DMZ Authentication and Identity Bridging. These services play a pivotal role in providing Zero Trust Network Access to corporate resources.
     Observability, Monitoring, Day2Ops

    2021: What's in my homelab?

     published on  included in SDDC
    I’ve talked about why everyone needs a homelab in my medium article but never had the courage to submit my homelab to the community homelab list maintained by William Lam Follow. Mainly because I wasn’t sure how my lab would stack up against everyone elses’ submission. With my latest post covering my experience enabling Tanzu with vSphere in my homelab, I feel like I’ve gone through the checklist of best practices and I’m proud of my minimalist(if i can say so myself) homelab setup!
     homelab, vExpert

    Misadventures turning on Workload Management with vSphere 7

     published on  included in SDDC
    For most folks that have been involved with SDDC for some time, this is going to be a lot of basic and obvious. As a quick disclaimer, I’ve to add that when i started down this path back in April, 2020(which was around the time vSphere 7.0 was released), I was (and still am) pretty new to the world of Home Lab and SDDC. As someone who has primarily worked on the application/software layer, I have been oblivious to the underlying infrastructure that made it all possible.
     Tanzu, Kubernetes, ProjectPacific, vExpert

    Unpacking Organization Groups in Workspace ONE UEM

     published on  included in UEM EUC
    What are Organization Groups in Workspace One UEM? What are the best practices with how to set Organization Groups up for our use case? Can we insert an OG between OGs? Do we have the right setup? These are very common questions on Organization Groups which is a very foundational element within Workspace ONE UEM. Over the several years of working with Workspace ONE UEM (formerly AirWatch), no one has tried to provide a complete picture of what an Organization Group is.
     UEM, EUC

    Access: The tale of the hidden APIs

     published on  included in ACCESS EUC
    Evolving Access through APIs Workspace One Access is VMware’s Product Line that helps provide seamless single sign on and conditional access for Applications from End User’s client devices. It is built using technologies such as SAML (RFC 7522) OAuth (RFC 6749) and Open ID Connect If you are new to the Product, you can find more details about WorkspaceONE(WS1) Access Product Page - here Documentation - here In this post, I’m going to cover a neat trick that will help you find and build on the APIs that are available with WS1 Access.
     Access, APIs, Postman, DeveloperTools

    Beginner's Guide: Bootstrapping kubernetes on Ubuntu 20.04 using kubeadm w/ Calico

     published on  included in KUBERNETES
    This is not going to be an eye-opening new post about bootstrapping Kubernetes - a lot of people have done it and several blog posts already exists. I’m hoping to capture the information here to serve as an easy documentation for myself and other beginners in the area of Kubernetes and Cloud Native Getting Started As a baseline, here are my assumptions about those following along or to my future self
     Kubernetes, Automation, Ubuntu, Calico

    Enabling Self Service for your DataCenter — Part I

     published on  included in VEBA
    Info This post was originally published in Medium - pkblah.medium.com/self-service-for-your-datacenter-part-i It doesn’t have to be Business vs IT anymore! Either sides’ needs while well-intentioned may seem to be at conflict with each other.. Business aims to innovate and promote new capabilities for their consumers with the goal of improving services delivered or user experience to retain existing users or acquire new users. IT as true partners to the Business want to provide the right platform and infrastructure but need to ensure that they guaranteeing the right security guidance, conformance to standards and best practices.
     event-driven, cloud-native

    Publicly trusted TLS for VMware Eventing Platform

     published on  included in VEBA
    Info This post was originally published in Medium - pkblah.medium.com/publicly-trusted-tls-for-vmware-eventing-platform Vmware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) continues to gain momentum and as Enterprise Customers start adopting the Appliance, we continue to broach Enterprise Features such as gauranteeing High Availability or the ability to upload/bootstrap the appliance with Internal CA signed or Public TLS certificates. While I had previously covered in part how the default self-signed TLS cert that is bound to OpenFaaS gateway can be updated through our documentation below, In this short post, I wanted to provide an end to end overview of obtaining a public certificate and binding it to the Ingress Gateway.
     event-driven, cloud-native

    A Function for all REST APIs

     published on  included in VEBA
    Info This post was originally published in Medium - pkblah.medium.com/a-function-for-all-rest-apis and…vCenter integration with Slack, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, Zendesk, JIRA, ServiceDesk is now possible with VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA)! Incident Management Systems — ✅ If you don’t see how the title and the introduction are connected, read on! Let me explain how I wrote one function that makes seemingly all 3rd party system integration easy and possible! The Why? I wrote my very first serverless function that allows you to integrate with vCenter with PagerDuty (using REST API) and this gave me a very good understanding of our User’s journey through writing a function.
     event-driven, cloud-native
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    Integrating vCenter with PagerDuty

     published on  included in VEBA
    Info This post was originally published in Medium - pkblah.medium.com/integrating-vcenter-with-pagerduty Uptime and Reliability is more important now than ever during these times when Technology and Infrastructure is enabling us fight a global pandemic with work from home policies. It is no wonder that eyes lit up when you say PagerDuty and vCenter integration! I’m going to explore how you enable this integration to automatically trigger a PagerDuty incident the minute vCenter detects something bad happens to your infrastructure!
     event-driven, cloud-native

    Serverless function — Quickstart Templates

     published on  included in VEBA
    Info This post was originally published in Medium - pkblah.medium.com/serverless-function-templates You have probably have seen my other article that helps you get started writing your very first event-driven function using VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) for your vCenter infrastructure. I highlight the steps taken to write my first serverless function and provide templates to help you get started quickly! Writing your first Serverless Function — here I also wanted to build on top of my t-shirt sized templates and provide a template where users can focus on writing their core business logic, be able to test quicker and debug easily!
     event-driven, cloud-native