Another fruitful workshop with our client is behind us.
On Tuesday, at a joint meeting, we summarised the work carried out in the client’s environment, both in terms of expansion and optimisation of the entire system. We presented the situation before and after implementation, and discussed detailed statistics on development and maintenance work over the last few months.
This workshop part was an excellent basis for moving on to a strategic discussion about the further directions of the environment’s development.
Next, we presented the capabilities of SSP (VMware Security Platform), which allows clients to significantly increase the security level of their infrastructure.
Later on, we focused on solutions developed by the Indevops team, concentrating on our favourite automation.
We presented, among other things:
👉 automation of microsegmentation processes,
👉 automation of business application development,
👉 tools for testing websites,
👉 and many other improvements that increase the efficiency and stability of IT environments.
The result of the workshops is a concrete action plan for the near future, prepared together with the client and tailored to their real needs.
If your organisation is looking for a partner who, thanks to their knowledge and expertise, will simplify complex IT processes, increase security and accelerate the development of your environment, we invite you to contact us.
👉 Contact the Indevops team, we will be happy to help.
As a Gold Sponsor, we invite you to participate, discuss and exchange experiences about our VCF and Indevops add-ons implementations, which will allow you to fully utilise the potential of your VCF and expand it with features that will truly improve your team’s daily work.
24 September 2025 VMware User Group (VMUG) Poland. This time, the sessions were selected in a different way than usual, i.e. participants could submit their own topic proposals and lead the sessions themselves. We were represented by Marcin Rzepa, who, as a #vExpert, tackled the topic of Agents 😊.
It was clear that each speaker had that spark in their presentation and showed a demo.
Dominik Jakubowski was the first to speak, with ‘Tanzu for the reluctant. How to get started with containers in the VMware world without a headache.’ He gave an accessible introduction to the world of microservices based on #K8S on the #vSphere Kubernetes Service platform.
The next session, our favourite 😁, was Marcin Rzepa's session.
As a vExpert, Marcin has years of experience with the largest VCF Operations/Automation implementations in Poland, which allowed him to present the problems administrators may encounter when installing and managing agents (including Telegraf and VCF for logs) and, on the other hand, what to do to solve these problems. The VCF Operations platform came to the rescue, where he showed what monitoring the status of agents on operating systems can look like, along with their installation, configuration and maintenance using dedicated software created in collaboration with Onteon Tech.
It was clear that the topic was a hot one, as Marcin received many questions from the audience and online.
After lunch, the first session was led by Paweł Wojno, ‘vSphere Supervisor [Tanzu] 9.0 – a practical guide’. Here, Paweł went into greater detail about the #VKS environment on #VVF/#VCF. The practical demo was received with enthusiasm by the audience.
After Paweł, Beata Witkowska-Szmyt made a short announcement, conveying important messages about the most significant events organised by TD SYNNEX Poland in the context of #VMware.
The last session, led by Łukasz Tworek and Andrzej Szymczak, included a demo on how to prepare #VCF9 for full operation as a private cloud, what components need to be configured and installed in VCF9. In the next steps, they showed how to use ready-made IaaS, CaaS and application services from the self-service portal. It was cool that Łukasz provided links to his blog, where everything he presented can be found.
The most open part, where the discussion flowed naturally, was the panel discussion about the latest news from VMware Explore in Vegas and London. Here, @Andrzej Szymczak talked about these new developments and we considered how to apply them in practice, while Łukasz Maciaszek shared his insights from VMware #Explore in London.
See you at the next #VMUG 🖐.
If you have any questions about Marcin’s session, please feel free to contact us.
I saw him later in the main auditorium and wanted to talk to him, but I lost sight of him for a moment and he disappeared into the crowd.😉 He talked about VCF at a high level. He emphasised that the key to success is good environment planning. He talked about the concept of VCF (VCF Fleet, Instance, Domain).
VCF Fleet is nothing more than a collection of VCF instances managed by common components: #Operations and #Automation. He also presented:
options for a fail-safe architecture.
several scalability parameters:
max. 25 vCentres in one instance (1 x MGMT Domain, 24 Workload Domains)
and, consequently, max. 25 NSX Managers
max. 2,500 hosts in one instance.
vRA, or rather VCFA (VCF Automation):
In addition to creating VMs, VCF Automation introduces the option of creating so-called All Apps, which means that on the same infrastructure, using Supervisor, the user can create both a standard VM and a #k8s cluster. k8s cluster on the same infrastructure using Supervisor. Now it doesn’t matter how complex the environment is. Organisations can easily and simply create applications regardless of their architecture.
vSphere Supervisor provides compute, storage and networking through the Kubernetes API.
Organisational and design isolation through the use of Namespace.
There can be one or more supervisors in a given region.
And all this is available from a single location, which allows you to create services in different regions and projects, e.g. dev, tst, prd,
In addition, everything is stored in YAML: VMs, TKG, load balancers, disks. When you configure from the GUI, a YAML file is automatically generated.
lab hall
Well organised, quick access, smooth operation. They contain an easy description of the architecture and explain the terminology used in the introduction. In addition to clicking through, you can also run a simulation that will guide you and familiarise you with the specifics of VCF.
The photo shows the scale we are talking about, how many VMs, how much storage and how many networks were created today.
The top 3 places are taken by hol laby with VCF.
I clicked through the labs with vRA and VCF 😉
Of course, this is no substitute for working with the real VCF, but it provides a foundation for learning about and entering the world of Private Cloud, and we already have our first VCF 9.0 in our INDEVOPS lab, where we are constantly discovering something new.
Congratulations Szymon Leszega! The form of life and not just sports! 🚴♂️🏊♂️🏃♂️
On a daily basis Szymon supports our Operations team at Indevops. Always prepared, always focused whether it’s on the race course or with technical challenges that pop up suddenly like… unplanned deployments 😅
Respect and admiration and not only for the result! 👏
