Kyle Ruddy

Kyle Ruddy is a Senior Technical Marketing Architect working for VMware R&D in the Cloud Platform Business Unit. Kyle currently focuses on vSphere and VMware Cloud on AWS automation and the associated automation frameworks including all things API, CLI, and SDK. Kyle is also a Microsoft MVP and long-term vExpert whom can be found blogging on VMware blogs, http://blogs.vmware.com/vSphere and http://blogs.vmware.com/PowerCLI, and his personal blog, https://www.kmruddy.com. His Twitter: @kmruddy

Recent Posts

Survey: vSphere Configuration Management Feedback

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There’s been an increasing trend lately in people wanting to discuss the application of configuration management to their vSphere environments. If you’ve spent any time researching it, you’ll find there are a wide variety of tools available. With each of these tools, they have their own set of dependencies, their own set of functionalities, and Read more...

New Release – vSphere Automation SDK for Ruby

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The vSphere Automation SDK for Ruby has been around for almost four years now. Originally released as the vCloud Suite SDK for Ruby in 2015, this was the first VMware supported Ruby SDK and was used to interact with the REST based vSphere 6.0 API endpoint. Once vSphere 6.5 was released, all of the vCloud Read more...

New Release – Datacenter CLI 2.11.0

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Datacenter CLI (DCLI) is back with a brand-new release in the form of version 2.11.0! There are some fantastic updates for the folks making use of the built-in credential store. DCLI 2.11.0 introduces the following improvements and changes: Added the ability to store multiple refresh tokens in the credential store Added the ability to store Read more...

First Look: vSphere Client Developer Center

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The vSphere HTML5 Web Client Fling has proven itself to be a fantastic resource over and over again. This Fling provides users with the latest and greatest pre-release updates for the HTML5 based vSphere Client. Released this week, version 4.0 of the Fling has two major improvements worth discussing. The first, this Fling can now Read more...

New Open Source Project – VMware OpenAPI Generator

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Since vSphere 6.0, vSphere has been providing more and more REST based APIs.In vSphere 6.5, we introduced a new API Explorer and a number of new REST APIs, these also received significant updates in the vSphere 6.7 release. The vCenter API infrastructure provides json based metadata which describes APIs available in vCenter. This format is Read more...