I previously wrote here and here about using the new VMware Cloud Director (VCD) API tokens functionality first introduced in version 10.3.1 to allow scripts and automation to connect to a VCD environment. With the update to VMware PowerCLI version 13.1 the previous way of achieving this is deprecated as the …

So I had an 'interesting' email from Oracle cloud (OCI) which I almost missed: As this site (kiwicloud.ninja) is currently hosted on the 'Free Tier' of Oracle Cloud I was a bit concerned, but figured the odds of being impacted were low and I 'should be alright'. Unfortunately - turned out it wasn't alright, OCI had …

Just a quick note, a work colleague pointed out that some image links were broken in an old post on here from 2018. It looks like the last time I moved hosting providers something got confused within WordPress and a heap of image links got broken. I've run a search & replace across the database and hopefully found …

Whenever I hit an obscure issue using someone else's code, I try and write up a quick post if I manage to find the cause (and fix it). Hopefully in this case you've found this article after encountering the same issue and this will provide an easy way to resolve it. In this case, I was working on deploying a lab …

I've been meaning to write a public blog for a while (ok, several years) now, but there always seemed to be something more important/urgent/fun to do so I never got around to it. Having found out recently that my VMware vExpert status has been renewed for 2016 (Huge thanks guys!) I figured there really was no excuse …