In this blog post, we will discuss about how to connect VMware Enterprise PKS to an external LDAP. Connecting PKS to a LDAP external user store allows the User Account and Authentication (UAA) server to delegate authentication to existing enterprise user stores.Note: When integrating with an external identity provider such as LDAP, authentication within the... Continue Reading →
How to configure BOSH Director for VMware Enterprise PKS
BOSH director unifies deployment, and lifecycle management of small and large-scale cloud software. It can provision and deploy software over hundreds of VMs. BOSH also performs monitoring, failure recovery, and software updates with zero-to-minimal downtime. BOSH is particularly well-suited for large distributed systems. In addition, it supports multiple Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) providers like... Continue Reading →
How to install Operations Manager for VMware Enterprise PKS
In this blog post, I will share step by step information about how to install and configure Pivotal Operations Manager for your PKS environment. OpsMan provides a set of APIs and a graphical interface to manage the deployment and upgrade of components like bosh and pks api vm. In addition to it, it also helps... Continue Reading →
VMware Enterprise PKS cluster creation fails
Recently while working on my PKS lab, I faced this issue where the PKS cluster creation was failing with error. The error message did not help us to identify the cause. I am writing here about how I fixed the issue. PKS cluster creation fails with error "1 of 5 post-start scripts failed. Failed Jobs:... Continue Reading →
How to identify dangling registry images in docker registry
Recently I worked on a PKS upgrade, where the upgrade halted due to no space on the docker registry. On further analysis we identified that the issue is caused due to dangling registry images in the docker registry. In this blog post, I will discuss how to identify and remove dangling registry images from the... Continue Reading →
VMware Enterprise PKS upgrade failed with error
Recently while working on a VMware Enterprise PKS upgrade, we noticed a issue which halts the upgrade halfway. The error message for the failure was "2 of 5 post-start scripts failed. Failed Jobs: telemetry-agent-image" Symptoms Bosh task reports errors: Task 13565 | 23:39:22 | Preparing package compilation: Finding packages to compile (00:00:00) Task 13565 |... Continue Reading →
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