Episode Followup – Governing your Microsoft Azure Environment with Phoummala Schmitt

As a conclusion to our 2019 Azure series, Phoummala Schmitt discusses how Microsoft takes the pain out of Azure governance using policies and blueprints. Reach Phoummala at twitter.com/ExchangeGoddess or by email at ExchangeGoddess @ microsoft.com All Azure Governance documentation can be found at http://aka.ms/cloudgovernance

Azure Monitoring and Operations with Ben Di Qual (@bendiq)

Hey guys, this is Ken Nalbone and Luis Ayuso. Ben Di Qual adds to our Azure series with a demonstration on Azure Monitoring and Operations. We take a look at the Azure dashboard and monitoring capabilities, both overall and within specific application stacks. If you’d like to ask Ben Questions, reach out to him on
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Azure Storage Fundamentals w Nick Colyer (@vNickC) and Karl Rautenstrauch (@Kloud_Karl)

Nick Colyer and Karl Rautenstrauch continue the Microsoft Azure Fundamentals series with Azure Storage. Find Nick on twitter at https://www.twitter.com/vNickC Find Karl on twitter at https://www.twitter.com/Kloud_Karl https://skylinesacademy.com Skyline Academy has a great offer for vBrownbag Viewers. Purchase an Azure 70-533 Certification course for 50% retail price. Enter promo code VBROWNBAG50 *About vBrownBag* SUBSCRIBE! http://bit.ly/vBBYoutube Socials:
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VMware vSAN 6.7 Enhancements with Jase McCarty (@JaseMcCarty)

  Jase McCarty joins us to discuss what’s new with vSAN 6.7. Contact Jase with any questions or feedback at www.twitter.com/jasemccarty vsan assessment https://www.vmware.com/products/hyper-converged-infrastructure/assessment.html storage hub https://storagehub.vmware.com/ documentation portal https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSAN/index.html HOLs https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/evalcenter?p=vsan-18-hol *About vBrownBag* SUBSCRIBE! http://bit.ly/vBBYoutube Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/vBrownBag Facebook: https://facebook.com/vBrownBag iTunes: http://bit.ly/vbrownbagitunes Google+: google.com/+vBrownBag https://vBrownBag.com is a community of people who believe in helping
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VMware vSphere 6.7 Upgrade with Nigel Hickey (@vCenterNerd)

https://youtu.be/3qdXdtKRZuQ   Nigel Hickey joins us to talk about upgrading to vSphere 6.7. End of General Support for vSphere 5.5 notice: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/51491 VMware Product Interoperability Matrixes: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2006028 Supported and depreciated topologies: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2147672 Update sequence for vSphere 6.5: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2147289 vSphere Upgrade ebook: http://www.vmw.re/vsphere-upgrade-ebook vspherecentral.vmware.com http://www.vmw.re/65upgradetool http://www.vmware.com/go/vsphere65playlist *About vBrownBag* SUBSCRIBE! http://bit.ly/vBBYoutube Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/vBrownBag Facebook: https://facebook.com/vBrownBag iTunes:
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VMware vSphere 6.7 Security Features w/ Mike Foley (@mikefoley)

Mike Foley (@MikeFoley) discusses the new security features of vSphere 6.7 3:38 – ESXi and TPM 2.0 14:30 – Windows 10 & 2016 Security Features Support 35:15 – VM Encryption in HTML5 UI 40:06 – vSphere 6.7 Security Resources https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2018/05/vsphere-6-7-security-media-resources.html *About vBrownBag* SUBSCRIBE! http://bit.ly/vBBYoutube Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/vBrownBag Facebook: https://facebook.com/vBrownBag iTunes: http://bit.ly/vbrownbagitunes Google+: google.com/+vBrownBag https://vBrownBag.com is
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VMware 6.7 APIs and Automation with Kyle Ruddy (@kmruddy)

Kyle Ruddy (@kmruddy) joins us to discuss and demo what’s new with the vSphere 6.7 APIs. The best way to reach Kyle for question is twitter DM https://www.twitter.com/kmruddy Have a feature request? Post it to https://powercli.ideas.aha.io/ and they will look into it! *About vBrownBag* SUBSCRIBE! http://bit.ly/vBBYoutube Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/vBrownBag Facebook: https://facebook.com/vBrownBag iTunes: http://bit.ly/vbrownbagitunes Google+: google.com/+vBrownBag

VMware vRealize Operations Manager: From Zero to Useful by Thom Greene (@tbgree00)

Thom Greene continues the “From Zero to Useful” series as he walks through configuration, design, and deployment of vRealize Operations Manager. Once configured, we dive into performing a health check of a virtual machine. Links from the show can be found at www.thomgreene.com/vrops Thom’s blog: www.thomgreene.com Github.com/tbgree00 twitter: @tbgree00

VMware Infrastructure as Code with Brett Johnson (@brettjohnson008)

Brett Johnson introduces the concept of infrastructure as code, CD/CD pipeline, and Git best practices. Git Resources: Commitmas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlY_hqvCmqY&list=PL2rC-8e38bUXloBOYChAl0EcbbuVjbE3t Git Documentation: https://git-scm.com/doc

VMware vSAN Homelab with Tony Reeves (@importcarguy)

Tony Reeves joins us to close out the 2018 Home Lab series for vBrownbag. We look into methods to assemble gear, using NFR, trial, and free licenses to add more services into your home lab, and modernizing publicly available scripts to work with vSphere 6.5. Veeam NFR license details can be found https://www.veeam.com/blog/how-to-get-free-veeam-nfr-key.html

VMware and Terraform Infrastructure as Code with Grant Orchard (@grantorchard)

https://youtu.be/ag36WCKrq5g Grant Orchard demonstrates using Terraform to deploy VMware VMs as code. He starts simple then introduces variables and shows how to deploy a complete application stack leveraging Terraform modules. Check out Grant’s blog series at https://grantorchard.com/infrastructure-as-code-vsphere-admin-part1/ Follow Grant on twitter at https://www.twitter.com/GrantOrchard 3:00 – Brief introduction to Terraform 16:00 – Dependency Resolution/graphviz 19:00 –
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GCP Cloud Architect Certification Preparation with Raphael Soeiro (@raphaelsoeiro)

Raphael Soeiro (@raphaelsoeiro) joins us to talk about becoming certified on Google Cloud Platform. The GCP Cloud Architect certification tests your knowledge of the google cloud product set and also common sense architectural scenarios. Raphael introduces us to the wide world of GCP certification and describes all the resources available to become certified and prove
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VMware APIs as a Service using OpenFaaS and VIO Kubernetes w Cody De Arkland (@codydearkland)

A vBrownBag “speed-round” where we saw how much Kubernetes, OpenFaas, and vSphere API’s we could cram into! VMware APIs as a Service using OpenFaaS and VIO Kubernetes Video We take an empty vSphere Integrated OpenStack Kubernetes cluster, and deploy OpenFaaS on it. In it’s normal state, it deploys to single node, behind a port. Traditional
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vSphere 6.5 RESTful APIs with Kyle Ruddy (@kmruddy)

Kyle Ruddy reviews the RESTful APIs available with vSphere 6.5 *About vBrownBag* SUBSCRIBE! http://bit.ly/vBBYoutube Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/vBrownBag Facebook: https://facebook.com/vBrownBag iTunes: http://bit.ly/vbrownbagitunes Google+: google.com/+vBrownBag https://vBrownBag.com is a community of people who believe in helping other people. Specifically we work in IT infrastructure and we help other people in the IT industry to better their carreers by
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Using RESTful APIs w Peter Milanese @pmilano1

Rubrik’s Peter Milanese discusses: – Authentication – Calling a ReSTful API – Writing Code Using RESTful APIs Video *About vBrownBag* SUBSCRIBE! http://bit.ly/vBBYoutube Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/vBrownBag Facebook: https://facebook.com/vBrownBag iTunes: http://bit.ly/vbrownbagitunes Google+: google.com/+vBrownBag https://vBrownBag.com is a community of people who believe in helping other people. Specifically we work in IT infrastructure and we help other people in
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Introduction to RESTful APIs with Chris Wahl (@chriswahl)

Chris Wahl from Rubrik kicks off the API Zero to Hero series with an introduction to RESTful APIs. Introduction to RESTful APIs Video Show Notes: – Imperative vs Declarative (2:20) – Avoid building by hand (4:25) – Learning a RESTful API is really easy (7:10) – What is REST (7:55) – Why learn RESTful APIs?
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Containers and Persistence with Kendrick Coleman @kendrickcoleman

Kendrick Colmen discusses how the changing application landscape impacts containers, and persistent storage. Containers and Persistence Video Show Notes: – Applications are changing (6:50) – Dev/Test/App life cycle (8:50) – Enter containers (9:25) – Why you should care (12:00) – Demo (17:50) – Demo recap – what just happened? (23:50) – Containers vs VMs –
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Docker Swarm Clustering, High Availability and Scheduling Services w Kenny Garreau @kennega

Kenny Garreau discusses Docker Swarm to provide clustering, HA, and scheduling services. Docker Swarm Video *About vBrownBag* SUBSCRIBE! http://bit.ly/vBBYoutube Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/vBrownBag Facebook: https://facebook.com/vBrownBag iTunes: http://bit.ly/vbrownbagitunes Google+: google.com/+vBrownBag https://vBrownBag.com is a community of people who believe in helping other people. Specifically we work in IT infrastructure and we help other people in the IT industry
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Docker for Virtualization Admins with Kenny Garreau @kennega

In this Docker 101 episode, Kenny Garreau provides you with the basics on Docker and containers. Docker for Virtualization Admins Video *About vBrownBag* SUBSCRIBE! http://bit.ly/vBBYoutube Socials: Twitter: https://twitter.com/vBrownBag Facebook: https://facebook.com/vBrownBag iTunes: http://bit.ly/vbrownbagitunes Google+: google.com/+vBrownBag https://vBrownBag.com is a community of people who believe in helping other people. Specifically we work in IT infrastructure and we help
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