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Terraform or Pulumi for IaC

Terraform by Hashicorp is a pioneer in the area of IaC tooling which allows to define infrastructure in a declarative manner by using its own language (HCL – Hashicorp Configuration Language). That means: it takes definition of the infrastructure (simplistic example could be a c…

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Juniper vMX – MPLS over lt interface

I was wondering if I can run MPLS over OVS, VXLAN tenant networks in Openstack (for example VLAN tagging won’t work in such case, not by default at least, didn’t have an option to test with vlan_transparent setting on network level). Wanted to quickly check it out between a pair …

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vSphere ESXi access without vSphere client

Today I stumbled on quite irritating problem. If you are OSX or Linux user and your ESXi setup doesn’t have vCenter (which comes with a price) then you are: Doomed to run a VM with Windows and install a vSphere client there (it requires Windows and .NET) Lose your time over t…