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Corporate IT Acquisitions Part 2: The (Sort Of) Touchy-Feely Version

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on June 13, 2022June 13, 2022

I did not plan on making a Part 2 to Corporate IT Acquisitions: A Survival…

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Corporate IT Acquisitions: A Survival Guide

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on June 7, 2022June 7, 2022

As a freshly-minted VMware employee who has been there just over a month, you might…

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Some Developments . . .

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on April 22, 2022

The Mothership called, and I was compelled to answer: I start my new job at…

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Securing Your vSphere Environment from Ransomware Part 3 of 3: Rubber Meets Road

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on March 26, 2022

I am hoping that you have recovered from the scare I gave you in Part…

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AWS Cloud Practitioner Exam: The Experience

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on February 27, 2022

Who has two thumbs and passed the AWS Cloud Practioner Exam? It was a nerve-racking…

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vSphere Cluster Service: My Crisis of Confidence

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on February 17, 2022February 17, 2022

When I was a wee VMware Engineer (let’s say it was the year . .…

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Securing Your vSphere Environment from Ransomware Part 2: Rubber Meets Road

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on January 31, 2022

In Part 1, I may have scared the crap out of you introduced protecting your…

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Securing Your vSphere Environment from Ransomware Part 1: It’s Worse Than You Think

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on January 6, 2022

TL;DR – Jump down to the Action Items: Where to Start section. I am averse…

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Happy Holidays . . . and . . . Why You Should Never Be a Fanboi/gurl of Anything Ever

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on December 16, 2021

This is the last post before Christmas, so Happy Holidays! Quick: Name something that you…

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Building Kubernetes-enabled Tower/AWX Execution Environments Using AWX-EE and ansible-builder

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on December 7, 2021

Disclaimer: this post is a bit more on the intermediate/advanced side, but you can always…

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A Rant About Bad Blogging and A (Former) Paper Tiger’s Advice on Passing IT Exams

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on November 15, 2021

TL;DR If you’re just looking for the “Studying Exams” part, skip down to, “And Now,…

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Your Friendly TOC Blogger Gets Real: Did You Spot My Master Plan?

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on October 30, 2021

Have an open mind on this one . . . this post may not be…

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I’m a Contributor Now: What I Learned from My First Public GitHub Pull Request (and What You Can Do With It)

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on October 20, 2021October 19, 2021

I’ve made it. I can now say I have done a PR on github on…

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Why VMware Engineers Tell You to Right-size Your VMs: Becau$e Co-$top Will Co$t You Money

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on October 6, 2021October 7, 2021

A Scenario: Ever wonder why we VMware Engineers always try to explain to you why,…

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A Plethora of Questions: The Value of Reverse Engineering (and a Primer)

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on September 7, 2021September 5, 2021

This post has everything: Borg Assimilation Cubes, no less than 2 Alec Baldwin movie references,…

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TOC Update: For the Shareholders!

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on June 9, 2021

I will come right out and say it: I am taking a break for two…

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A Primer on Migrations with Zerto and Inspecting the Zerto REST API

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on June 5, 2021

TL;DR – If you want to get straight to the API part, skip in down…

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Zerto’s Continuous Data Protection for Kubernetes, Part 2: The Hands-On Part

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on June 1, 2021

TL;DR: If you really want to get my deeper commentary on the value of what…

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Containers 101, Part 2: Building a Container with “docker build” and Pushing it To a Docker Repo for Use with Kubernetes

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on May 19, 2021

How’s that for a searchable title? In your face, SEO consultants! In Part 1, we…

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TOC May 2021 Update

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on May 12, 2021

Hey everyone. Thanks for reading. I have at least two posts in the hopper but…

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Zerto’s Continuous Data Protection for Kubernetes, Part 1: What is It?

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on April 29, 2021

In the interest of full disclosure, TOC-ers, I am getting paid for this blog post.…

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Ansible Tips and Tricks: –list-hosts and/or Forcing People to Use –limit

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on April 19, 2021June 17, 2021

As much as I would like to think that I am careful when running Ansible…

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Containers 101, Part 1: Containers Defined and How to Run Them

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on April 13, 2021

I have published no less than two Kubernetes Series posts and not once did I…

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Late-to-the-Table Kubernetes Part 5: Installing Applications on TKG Workload Clusters

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on March 30, 2021March 30, 2021

For those of you paying attention, you may be aware that I am changing the…

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My “Side Project” “Comedy” Podcast – Bicoastal Boozecast

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on March 16, 2021March 16, 2021

Hey all. Bryan here. I hope you are enjoying my most recent post on Kubernetes…

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Late-to-the-Table Kubernetes Part 4: Yet Another Tutorial on Installing Tanzu Kubernetes Grid

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on March 14, 2021March 29, 2021

So here we are. Part 4. Parts 1-3 go through a definition of what Kubernetes…

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Late-to-the-Table Kubernetes Part 3: Yet Another Explanation of Kubernetes

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on February 21, 2021February 23, 2021

For Whom The Post Tolls, The Post Tolls for Thee1 In Part 1, I made…

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Me = vExpert 2021

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on February 12, 2021

I am honored to be a first-time vExpert here in the year 2021. I have…

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The Fallacy of “Just Getting it Done”: Economics and the Use of Automation

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on February 6, 2021October 9, 2021

TL;DR Work smarter not harder by calculating opportunity costs. Yeah I know. Another opinion post.…

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IT Reality Podcast – Season 2 Episode 4 Appearance

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on January 29, 2021January 29, 2021

Forgive me for the not-so-creative title on this one, but the good people over at…

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  • automation
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The Six Year Rule: Keeping Your Skills Relevant in a Sea of Technology

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on January 27, 2021February 27, 2021

I am not sure I have ever gone into detail about my career history so…

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Dealing with Modern Distributed Systems: A Primer

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on January 19, 2021

A Very Brief Aside About Current Events It has been difficult for me to focus,…

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  • Kubernetes
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Late-to-the-Table Kubernetes Part 2: Yet Another List of Learning Resources for Kubernetes

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on January 8, 2021

Happy New Year! In Part 1, I detailed my take on Kubernetes. Here in Part…

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  • Kubernetes
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Late-to-the-Table Kubernetes Part 1: Yet Another Take on Kubernetes

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on December 22, 2020December 23, 2020

The Usual Disclaimers We’re coming up on a new year and I am meeting my…

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The Obligatory 2020 Year in Review: How it Started vs. How It’s Going

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on December 12, 2020December 12, 2020

We’ve reached the end of 2020 and here’s to hoping for a fun and safe…

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Happy Thanksgiving from TOC!

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on November 26, 2020November 27, 2020

I am not sure other bloggers are going to make an entire post to wish…

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  • automation
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Book Review, Part 2: O’Reilly’s Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on November 22, 2020

In Part 1 of this book review, I recommended this book for the first seven…

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The Power of Ansible AWX (A.K.A. The “Free” Ansible Tower)

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on November 16, 2020November 17, 2020

I know, I know. It has been a while. I have no excuses: I just…

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  • Bryan's Take
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A Halloween Post About De-Siloing All the Things: “Be Not Afraid, Be Very Not Afraid”

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on October 31, 2020November 1, 2020

Happy Halloween! In this post we are talking about breaking through silos; a topic that…

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  • automation
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First Impressions of O’Reilly’s Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems: Part 1

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on October 27, 2020

I just finished Chapter 7 of O’Reilly’s Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems.…

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  • Bryan's Take
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The Obligatory Post-VMworld 2020 Post

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on October 24, 2020

Looking at the VMworld 2020 site for Level 200-300 Breakout Sessions, there are 393 available…

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  • Bryan's Take
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Dispatches from a Full Remote Veteran: Unpopular Opinions About WFH and How to Stay Sane If It’s Not Your Thing

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on October 18, 2020October 20, 2020

TL;DR – If you aren’t one for unpopular opinions and just want the advice part,…

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  • automation
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Jenkins and PowerCLI: A Gateway Drug to “Pipelining” Your Automation

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on October 14, 2020October 21, 2020

TL;DR – DevOps people should at least read the disclaimer section (YADS: “Yet Another Disclaimer…

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  • PowerCLI
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This Week in Ad-Hoc Scripting: Time-Randomized vMotion Testing (DRS Simulator?)

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on October 3, 2020October 22, 2020

There is no TL;DR this week because I get to the code pretty quickly. The…

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  • Ansible
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VMWorld 2020 – Now Live!

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on September 29, 2020

For those of you here to checkout the resources discussed in my session, here’s everything…

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  • Kubernetes
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Thank You! TOC Surpasses 1000 Views in September

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on September 27, 2020September 27, 2020

Well, 70 Followers of my blog (at what number does that self-deprecating joke not work…

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  • automation
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Self Service VM Provisioning with Morpheus, Part 3: Let’s Do It

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on September 25, 2020

So here we are. Morpheus. Part 3 of 3. In Part 1, I waxed philosophical…

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  • Bryan's Take
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The Obligatory Pre-VMworld 2020 Post

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on September 18, 2020

Be on the lookout for Part 3 of my Morpheus series. It’s in the works!…

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  • automation
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Self Service VM Provisioning with Morpheus, Part 2: Morpheus Level-Setting and Planning Out the Automation

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on September 9, 2020

In Part 1, I got dark and existential about VM Self Service, and we talked…

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  • Corporate IT Acquisitions Part 2: The (Sort Of) Touchy-Feely Version

    June 13, 2022
  • Corporate IT Acquisitions: A Survival Guide

    June 7, 2022
  • Some Developments . . .

    April 22, 2022
  • Securing Your vSphere Environment from Ransomware Part 3 of 3: Rubber Meets Road

    March 26, 2022
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner Exam: The Experience

    February 27, 2022

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