It’s Always DNS: Debugging a VCF Management Services Bootstrap Failure during 9.1.1 bringup

In an effort to adopt signed certificates in my lab, I decided to do a fresh bringup on a domain I own rather than some random one I made up for my lab, for example:Old: wilson.labNew: mydomain.com For mydomain.com, to save having to create manual DNS entry for new services I bring up outside of … Read more

Integrating Authentik as an Identity Provider for VCF 9.1 SSO

Authentik is an Open Source Identity Provider which I currently use outside of my VCF homelab. William Lam has published a number of different posts about Authentik, one of which is how to use it as an IdP with vCenter. I figured I’d be able to use it as an Identity Source for VCF SSO … Read more

VCF 9 – how to add a host to an existing cluster?

I’ve been experimenting with VCF 9 in my homelab recently and I’ve been trying out some day 2 activities. Invariably, with homelabs you end up having to rebuild some (or all) of it as you experiment, and I found myself in that position. I do intend on writing a blog covering how my lab is … Read more