Announcing the ESXi-Arm Fling
Today is an exciting day for us at VMware and I expect for many of you reading this post: the ESXi bits that run on Arm are now available for you to download and start …
Automating Installation of WordPress with NGINX Unit on Ubuntu
There is an incredible amount of information out there about installing WordPress – a Google search for “WordPress install” yields 488,000 results as of this writing. Yet among those results are very few tutorials that comprehensively explain …
Can Application Security Be Pain Free?
Application security is hard, and it’s even harder to do right. If it were easy and straightforward, executives wouldn’t be held accountable for breaches with jail time! In today’s digital‑first world, securing modern applications against …
How do I Integrate VMware Cloud on Dell EMC into an Existing Data Center? (Part 3)
By Matt Herreras, Director, Technical Marketing for VMware Cloud on Dell EMC This blog is the third post in a three-part series leading up to VMworld 2020. The series has dealt with challenges and solutions …
8 Ways to Secure Your WordPress Login
The WordPress login URL is the same for every WordPress site, and it doesn’t require any special permissions to access. Anyone with any experience working with WordPress knows the login URL is located on the …
Diagnostic Logging with the NGINX JavaScript Module
Troubleshooting in Production Without Tuning the Error Log Editor – This blog is one of several that discuss logging with NGINX and NGINX Plus. Please also see: Application Tracing with NGINX and NGINX Plus Sampling Requests …
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 …
VMware Design Studio Looking For Security Feedback
Hey vSphere fans, just a few days to go until VMworld 2020. Over 100,000 people have signed up which is absolutely wonderful. If you’ve ever used a VMware product and thought “I really wish this …
VMworld 2020 – Session Breakdown and Analysis
VMworld 2020 is different this year… but in this COVID year, we are only five days away from kicking off Virtually. The content catalog for the Virtual event has been live for a while now …
Marketing in Uncertain Times: 17 Tips for Tactful Communication
At the time of writing this article, COVID-19 continues to spread across the world. And while some countries have had more cohesive responses than others, one thing remains for certain everywhere: how you market your …
Happy 10th Birthday VMware Cloud Director!
It is crazy to think that we could celebrate (those of us brave enough to admit it) the birthday of the piece of software. Throughout modern history, software celebrations have been limited to the likes …
Performance Testing NGINX Ingress Controllers in a Dynamic Kubernetes Cloud Environment
As more and more enterprises run containerized apps in production, Kubernetes continues to solidify its position as the standard tool for container orchestration. At the same time, demand for cloud computing has been pulled forward …
Deploying Application Services in Kubernetes, Part 2
In the previous blog in this series, we looked at the rising influence of DevOps in controlling how applications are deployed, managed, and delivered. Although this may appear to invite conflict with NetOps teams, enterprises …
Using PowerShell with APIs to Generate Let’s Encrypt SSL Certs with CloudFlare or GoDaddy DNS
Lets Encrypt has issued over a billion SSL certificates since starting out and has all but ended any reason for not having trusted SSL certificates installed on test/dev, lab or non-production systems. I even know …