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! 👏
Do you want to see Simon in action, visit our YouTube channel
We are proud to share that Szymon, in the colors of INDEVOPS, took 3rd place in the prestigious Challenge Gdansk triathlon over the middle distance! 🔥
This is not only a great result, but also a warm-up for the upcoming challenge – Ironman 70.3 Krakow, which will be held soon!
💪 Szymon is aiming high – qualification for the European Championships is his main goal, and we at @Indevops are supporting him as hard as we can!
We’re keeping our fingers firmly crossed for a great performance in Krakow!
📷 Check out the photo gallery as usual!
With each passing day, I’m becoming more and more convinced of the vision Broadcom is showing for the development of VMware Cloud Foundation 9 (VCF9). What was a promise not so long ago is now starting to work in practice – and it’s working brilliantly. The concept of SDN and Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), which takes on a new dimension in VCF9, has particularly caught my attention recently.
👉 If this is your first contact with the series, be sure to also read the first introductory article to VCF9 here.
In this article, I’ll show you why it’s worth getting interested in it and what it all looks like in practice – step by step.
Let’s start with the basics. The very idea of building an SDN network using VPC is not new – it already appeared in VCF 5.2 and users have been using it ever since. What is changing is how this concept is being consumed and developed. Integration with the self-service portal – both within vCenter and the more modern approach, VCF Automation – is key here.
But one step at a time.
VPC works at the SDN, or programmable network, level. Each physical server with vSphere is connected to a physical VLAN through which SDN packets flow. The whole thing is controlled by NSX, VMware’s flagship networking component. For simplicity’s sake, imagine that a VLAN is a highway on which data trucks travel. These trucks carry smaller packets – the actual network packets.
In the new approach, VPCs can be created in several ways:
vCenter – a familiar and well-loved interface, ideal for virtualization administrators who can create a VPC with literally a few clicks.
NSX – a more advanced console for network professionals who need full control over their SDN infrastructure.
VCF Automation – ideal for users outside the networking and virtualization world who also want to create their own network environments.
We create regions – e.g. one for the Data Center in Warsaw, another for the DC in Poznan.
We create organizations (tenants) – we assign administrators to each organization.
Organizational administrators create projects, namespaces and, of course, VPCs.
End users – can then divide the VPCs into smaller network segments, establish addressing and run services.
What used to take days or weeks (configuring VLANs, changing switches, assigning to vSphere), today users can do themselves in 2-3 minutes.
Every operation in VCF Automation is recorded. Every step can be analyzed and accounted for. VPC can be easily scaled, assigned to different projects and network segments. We can also easily control whether a user has access to the outside world or only to internal resources. What’s more – communication between different VPCs is also possible.
Now let’s think: doesn’t all this remind you of a public cloud? Regions, organizations, VPCs, network segmentation – after all, these are classics of public cloud. Only that with VCF9 we have it all at home – in our own Data Center, under full control, without compromising on security, and – importantly – with much lower operating costs than in the public cloud.
I’ve seen it in action – it’s no longer a vision, it’s a reality. And I have to admit: I really like it.
We will soon look at another important aspect – how to implement advanced security mechanisms in our VCF9 private cloud environment, which security professionals still often only dream about.
Here’s a rundown of official sources from Broadcom’s website detailing what’s new in VMware Cloud Foundation 9 (VCF9), including features related to SDN, VPC and automation:
1. **Broadcom unveils the future of VMware Cloud Foundation**.
Official announcement of VCF9, including simplified management, self-service portal and native VPC support.
2 **Broadcom announces new version of VMware Cloud Foundation**.
Information on simplified deployments, management console consolidation, and support for multi-tenancy and network services.
https://news.broadcom.com/releases/vmware-cloud-foundation-9-0
3 **Broadcom’s strategic shift: VMware’s return to the private cloud**.
A description of VMware’s shift in strategy to the private cloud and VCF9’s role in this transformation.
4 **VMware Cloud Foundation delivers private cloud platform**.
Details on VCF9’s support for AI, digital sovereignty and security.
5 **Broadcom announces deprecation of VCF Automation Pipelines**.
Information on the withdrawal of the VCF Automation Pipelines feature in version 9.
https://news.broadcom.com/releases/vmware-explore-2024-barcelona-vmware-cloud-foundation
These sources provide comprehensive information on the new features and changes introduced in VMware Cloud Foundation 9, especially in the context of SDN, VPC and private cloud management automation.
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Marek, head of IT at a large company, was fed up with manual application deployment. Each new launch meant an avalanche of tickets, manual configuration of VMs, Kubernetes, IPs, load balancers… and finally still opening network traffic. Deployment time? Days, and often weeks.
Problems:
➡ Long wait times and multi-step approvals
➡ Errors due to manual operations
➡ Lack of standardisation
➡ Overloaded IT team
Marek implemented application and infrastructure standards, automated appointment and approval processes, and launched a self-service portal. As of now:
➡ Applications are available in a several minutes
➡ Processes are repeatable and compliant with standards
➡ IT team focuses on strategic activities
➡ VM/K8s creation and configuration
➡ Assignment of IPs, subnets, LBs
➡ Acceptance process, monitoring and auto-scaling
➡ Integration with CMDB and data updating
➡ Faster deployments
➡ Fewer errors
➡ More time for the IT team
➡ Better quality and control
Marek has achieved all this with a private cloud based on VMware Cloud Foundation, enhanced with our add-ons and the team’s experience, coming soon in version 🔗 9 (VCF 9)
Don’t waste your time manually deploying applications. Be like Marek.
“There were three of us, different blood in each of us, but one goal guided us” (quoting the classic Polish rock band Perfect ‘Autobiography’ 😊): to win VMware vExpert Award 2025! 💪🎉
Huge congratulations to the entire Indevops team:
🚀 Pawel Orzechowski
🚀 Pawel Koper
🚀 Marcin Rzepa
This award is proof of our passion for VMware technology, knowledge sharing and continuous development. Thank you to the vExpert community and VMware for this prestigious award!
This is just the beginning – we keep going! 🔥
#vExpert #vExpert2025 #VMware #Indevops #CloudComputing #DevOps #ITAutomation 🚀
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Indevops addons are magical extensions for your VMware Cloud Foundation (and also vSphere Foundation). You stick them on and boom! You see your applications, you see your data center, you see your hardware, in other words, you discover everything going on in your IT infrastructure – all in one VMware Cloud Operations console. We’ve been building it for 3 years – that’s how long we’ve been an official VMware TAP partner! 🔧✨
Hence the question to you: Which Indevops Addons packages for VCF Cloud Operations do you find most attractive?
Your opinion will help us create better solutions! Fill out the survey on Linkedin
If you are interested in others enter in the comments which ones.
VCF Application Observability – plugs directly into the code of your applications
VCF Data Center Inventory – presents 3D views of your data center
VCF Agent Management – manages any agents you have in your environment (monitoring, backup. antivirus)
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