Tag: Terraform
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FinOps Automation With Guardrails, Policy and Infrastructure as Code (Cloud FinOps Series, Part 18)
Alerts tell you money already left. Policy stops it leaving. A practitioner guide to cost guardrails on AWS, Azure and GCP, plus cost checks in the pull request, and where automation goes wrong.
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Infrastructure as Code: Build Servers From Files, Not Clicks (DevOps for Beginners, Part 10)
Infrastructure as Code explained with Terraform: describe servers in files, use the plan and apply loop, understand the state file, and avoid drift and lock conflicts.
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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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Infrastructure as Code in VCF Automation: The vmware/vcfa Terraform Provider (VCF Automation 9 Series, Part 21)
VCF Automation 9 has no single Terraform provider. Here is how the vmware/vcfa, vra and kubernetes providers split the work, the real HCL for orgs, quota and namespaces, and where the provider still hands you back to the UI.
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NSX 9 Automation and API: The Policy API, the Hierarchical Tree and Terraform (NSX Series, Part 28)
NSX 9 removed the Manager API, so automation now means the declarative Policy API. Here is why intent beats imperative scripting, how the hierarchical API builds a whole topology in one call, and where Terraform, Ansible and PowerCLI fit on top.
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VCF 9 Automation and the API-First Stack: A Practical Runbook (VCF 9 Series, Part 32)
A practical runbook for automating VMware Cloud Foundation 9: set up OAuth 2.0 token authentication, pick between PowerCLI, the Unified SDK and Terraform, and wire it into CI/CD without leaking tokens.
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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