Category: Automation
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What Really Happens When You Load a Website (DevOps for Beginners, Part 6)
A DevOps mental model of the web: the request and response cycle, DNS, load balancers, ports, TLS, and the status codes that tell you exactly where a site broke.
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Git and Version Control From Your First Commit (DevOps for Beginners, Part 5)
Git is the tool every DevOps job assumes you already know. Here is how it stores your work, how branches and merges really behave, and the first-push error that stops beginners, with commands you can run today.
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Learn the Linux Command Line That Runs Every DevOps Tool (DevOps for Beginners, Part 4)
The Linux command line is where every DevOps tool actually runs. Here are the everyday commands, file permissions, and troubleshooting basics to get comfortable in the terminal on day one.
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The DevOps Lifecycle and the Toolchain Behind It (DevOps for Beginners, Part 3)
A plain map of the eight-stage DevOps lifecycle and the tools that run each stage, with a real CI pipeline you can trace from git push to live.
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What Problem Does DevOps Actually Solve? (DevOps for Beginners, Part 2)
The dev versus ops split, the over-the-wall handoff, environment drift and big-batch releases, and how DevOps closes the gap with shared ownership and automation.
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What DevOps Actually Means, and the Myths Around It (DevOps for Beginners, Part 1)
What DevOps actually means, the myths around it, the dev versus ops wall, and how the DORA metrics measure it, with a runnable pipeline example.
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Notifications and the Consumer Experience in VCF Automation (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 41)
Governance without notice feels like sabotage. This is how notifications work in VCF Automation 9: the outbound email scenarios, the in-UI reports and alerts, provider-controlled tenant visibility, and how to make sure the warnings actually get read.
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Content Sources and Content Sharing in VCF Automation: Feeding the Catalog (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 40)
Authoring a template and delivering it are two different jobs. This is the content-source and content-sharing model that gets templates into the VCF Automation catalog and in front of the right projects, plus the 9.1 Project Content Library.
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Identity, SSO and Custom Roles in VCF Automation: Wiring Up the VCF Identity Broker and RBAC (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 37)
How identity actually flows in VCF Automation 9: the VCF Identity Broker and VCF SSO for the provider plane, per-organization external IdPs for tenants, the OIDC claim-mapping that silently breaks group membership, and custom roles, rights bundles and global roles for RBAC, with a real vmware/vcfa Terraform example.
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Consuming All Apps the Kubernetes-Native Way in VCF Automation: kubectl and YAML (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 36)
The All Apps organization presents a Kubernetes-style API, so developers provision VMs, databases and clusters with kubectl and YAML. Here is the vcf-cli and token setup, the declarative flow, and when to use it over the portal or Terraform.
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Governing Private AI Consumption in VCF Automation: GPU Quotas, Policies and Roles (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 35)
GPU is the most expensive resource you will ever put behind self-service. Here is how to govern Private AI consumption in VCF Automation 9.1 with namespace GPU quotas, consumption policies, roles and per-namespace activation, without touching the AI stack itself.
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Property Groups and Secrets in VCF Automation: Reusable Inputs, Not Copy-Paste (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 34)
Inputs, property groups and secrets in VCF Automation 9 look interchangeable and are not. Where each value belongs, the scoping traps, the binding syntax, and how rotation actually works.
Architect’s Toolkit
PJ’s Tools
VMware Cloud Foundation
- VCF Documentation
- VCF 9 Planning & Preparation Workbook
- VCF Bill of Materials (BoM)
- VMware Compatibility Guide
- VMware Interoperability Matrix
- VMware Configuration Maximums
- VMware Ports & Protocols
- VMware Hands-on Labs
- RVTools Download
Nutanix
AI & Cloud-Native Platform
- NVIDIA Build (Model Catalog)
- NVIDIA AI Enterprise Reference Architecture
- NVIDIA NIM Performance Benchmarking
- NVIDIA NGC Catalog
- NeMo Microservices Helm Chart
- Helm Charts Repository
- Hugging Face Models
Architecture & Design
About the Author
Dr Pranay Jha
Dr. Pranay Jha is a Cloud and AI Consultant with 18+ years of experience in hybrid cloud, virtualization, and enterprise infrastructure transformation. He specializes in VMware technologies, multi-cloud strategy, and Generative AI solutions. He holds a PhD in Computer Applications with research focused on Cloud and AI, has published multiple research papers, and has been a VMware vExpert since 2016 and a VMUG Community Leader.
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