VCF 9.1: A Documentation Assistant That Cites Its Sources
A local AI service on VCF 9.1 that reads the product documentation and answers with the document, the version and the page — on one consumer GPU, with nothing leaving the lab.
VCF 9.1: The vLCM Image You Can't Delete in the GUI
In VCF Operations 9.1 you can export a custom vLCM cluster image but there's no button to delete one again. Here's why, and the three-call API path (get a token, list, delete) that clears it out.
The Trust Ladder: An Automation Framework from an Old Network Hand
How much to automate a process and when to hold back — automation as a promotion you earn, not a switch you flip.
Increasing Velocity - Refresh and updates
There is a a lot of reasons to do things but security is a big motivater — I am on a refresh of the VCF guides, deeper salt integration and automation bits. This is the start.
Technical Guides
Multi-part walkthroughs, run end to end in the lab and maintained as the products move.
Browse guidesRepos
Scripts, manifests and lab configs from the posts, ready to clone.
See the codeAI Skills
Runbooks written so an agent can follow them: checks, commands and failure modes.
Read the runbooksKnowledge Base
Working notes and activity from elsewhere, collected in one place.
Recent activityWho writes this
I'm an infrastructure and network engineer and architect. This is where the working notes go: design decisions, platform engineering, homelab builds, and the automation that ties them together. Everything here started as something I had to figure out, then got cleaned up enough to be useful to someone else six months later.