EVENT DETAILS:

Wednesday, November 29th, 2017
6:30 – 8:30 pm
Prom C Cafeteria, VMware HQ (see MeetUp event for a map)
Watch the livestream on the VMTN Facebook page

DESCRIPTION:

Please join us at VMware headquarters on Wednesday November 29th for an SF Bay Area OpenStack MeetUp hosted by VMware {code}. The speakers at this MeetUp, Dustin Kirkland and Sabari Murugesan, will examine the modern set of container best practices filling the sails of the smartest and most efficient developers in the world. After their presentations, they will stick around after for a bit of Q & A. Please see the details below on the event schedule and speaker bios. Light dinner and drinks will be provided, we hope to see you there!

SCHEDULE:

6:30 – 7:00 Introductions, Snacks, and Brief Presentation on VMware {code}
7:00 – 7:05 – K8s on OpenStack Lightning Talk, Sabari Murugesan
7:05 – 8:00 Discussion and Q&A, Dustin Kirkland
8:00 – 8:30 Networking

SPEAKERS

Dustin Kirkland

Dustin is a VP of Product Development at Ubuntu/Canonical. Dustin leads a team of expert product managers, directing and managing the product lifecycle and road maps across the suite of Ubuntu server, cloud, desktop, and IoT device products. Dustin drives functional requirements across internal and external teams, delivering marketing and product requirements. Find Dustin on Twitter: @DustinKirkland

Sabari Murugesan

Sabari is a Staff Engineer at VMware and has been working with OpenStack since the Havana release. In the past, he was a core contributor to the Glance project and has also been associated with the Nova and Oslo projects. At VMware, he primarily works as a developer in the VMware Integrated OpenStack & Kubernetes product team, a.k.a “Team OpenStack @ VMware.” Find Sabari on Twitter: @neosab87

Interested? RSVP on MeetUp. If you can’t attend in person, the event will be live-streamed on the VMTN Facebook page.

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Once again, we are thrilled to have gathered a stellar team of judges to help us pick the winning team at the hackathon in Barcelona Monday night.

Jake Robinson

Jake Robinson

Jake Robinson (@JakeRobinson, LinkedIn, GitHub) is passionate about automation and has been innovating at VMware for 4 years, serving as an automation architect, dev manager, and most recently as the product manager for VMware’s CLIs, including PowerCLI and DCLI. He is a proud advocate for community and open source software and has a number of open source projects in the works.

Nikki Roda

Nikki Roda

Nikki Roda (@NikkiRoda, LinkedIn) is a Staff Interaction Designer and Prototyper for VMware’s User Experience team, specializing in applying information visualizations to highly complex datasets and analysis. With a background in Economics, Data Science, and Human Computer Interaction, she’s had the pleasure of designing bespoke solutions for government agencies, global developmental aid organizations, and large investment banks. She’s a passionate advocate for expanding data literacy and data-driven design within organizations to help inform better decision making. Come see the work she’s been doing on next generation visualizations and user interfaces for the Management suite of applications at VMworld session MGT3138SE, “What’s on the Horizon: Cool Emerging Technologies and Challenges of Managing Them” from 5pm-6pm on Wednesday Sept 13th

Steve Trefethen

Steve Trefethen

Steve Trefethen (LinkedIn) leads the vSphere SDK team delivering Automation SDKs for the new vSphere REST APIs as well as VMware Cloud on AWS, pyvmomi, rbvmomi, VCLI and the Management SDK’s. In the past, Steve has served as CTO and VP of Engineering at various startups in Silicon Valley and built development teams from the ground up. He has also worked as a developer at Borland working on Delphi, a popular software development environment and Microsoft as part of the Windows team and is passionate about software development.

Ricky Trigalo

RIcky Trigalo

Ricky Trigalo (LinkedIn) leads the Cloud-Exchange team, an incubation (XLab) project with OCTO, developing a new ‘public cloud’ based on exchange of capacity from SP’s and enterprise participants on VMware’s platform. Prior to VMware, she was a Director of Solution Architecture with Diablo technologies, leading architecture design solutions with All Flash distributed local storage. Ricky has 20 years of experience in storage industry, including product management, system and solution architecture and software engineering.

We are very happy to present to you the four judges who will be evaluating and scoring the 15 teams at the VMworld Hackathon this year:

Lily Chang

Lily Chang

Lily Chang (LinkedIn) leads the VMware Strategic Transformation Office and SVM (VMware Sugon Joint Venture) Project Office. At VMware, Lily has successfully driven global scalability and growth in ecosystem infrastructure, services, interoperability, developers’ initiatives, and R&D portfolio service model as Central Engineering VP. Prior to VMware, Lily held senior R&D leadership positions at Xilinx, KLA-Tencor, and Mentor Graphics with proven success in driving game-changing innovation, product development and R&D productivity globally.

Yashika Deva

Yashika Deva

Yashika Deva (LinkedIn) leads vSphere’s Automation team developing various API, SDK and CLI products that include the new REST based APIs, VMware Cloud on AWS SDKs, PowerCLI, DCLI, PyVmomi, Management SDKs etc. In the past, she led teams on IBM Tivoli’s Configuration Management solution (as part of an acquisition), co-founded a local search company called vMobo, worked on popular IP Telephony offerings such as Sylantro’s Softswitch (acquired by Broadsoft) and Cisco’s first IP Switch solution.

Duncan Epping

Duncan Epping

Duncan Epping (@DuncanYB) is a chief technologist working for VMware in the storage and availability business unit. Duncan is a VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX007) and the author / owner of VMware Virtualization blog Yellow-Bricks.com. With 5 patents granted and 1 pending Duncan is always looking for opportunities to innovate and simplify the life of the IT Admin.

Chris Wahl

Chris Wahl

Chris Wahl (@ChrisWahl, LinkedIn) is the author of the award winning Wahl Network blog and host of the Datanauts Podcast, focuses on creating content that revolves around virtualization, automation, infrastructure, and evangelizing products and services that benefit the technology community. In addition to co-authoring “Networking for VMware Administrators” for VMware Press, he has published hundreds of articles and was voted the “Favorite Independent Blogger” by vSphere-Land three years in a row (2013 – 2015). Chris also travels globally to speak at industry events, provide subject matter expertise, and offer perspectives to startups and investors as a technical adviser.

One of the major resources on the VMware {code} website is VMware Sample Exchange:

Browse and download code samples from VMware as well as code samples contributed by the VMware community. Log in to Sample Exchange using your MyVMware credentials to submit requests for new samples, contribute your own samples, as well as propose a sample as a solution for open requests.

On tomorrow’s edition #393 of VMware Communities Roundtable, meet Aaron Spear, one of the key people behind Sample Exchange:

VMware Communities Roundtable
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
12pm Pacific (3pm Eastern)
Tune in and join the live chat: http://www.talkshoe.com/tc/19367

Should be a fun session.

Last week, we held our first-ever community town hall over on Slack. Not bad for a first attempt: good turnout, lots of great questions and comments, and participants seemed to enjoy it overall. Thanks again to Alan Renouf, Kyle Ruddy and the rest of their team for trying it out with us.

We’re talking to a number of teams to see when we can schedule the next one. Stay tuned! Have a favorite product team you’d like to ask questions? Leave a comment below, find us on Slack, or tweet us at @vmwarecode – we’ll do our best to make it happen!

Please find the transcript of some of the key questions below, with minor edits for clarity and style.

Summary of questions & answers

Q: How about a method of tying together Windows disks and vSphere disks – it’s a real pain to deal with at the moment when trying to script server builds.
A: Yes, it is a pain. Did you see the scripts available for this already? It gets hard when there are multiple partitions per disk and other OS as well.

Q: Will PowerCLI be joining the others in being open-sourced?
A: Great question! It’s certainly a long-term goal but we have a way to go internally to get to that point.

Q: Any ETA on module auto-loading/discovery for PowerCLI?
A: Can’t give any official dates, but soon!

Q: In PowerCLI, I am using the new abilities to do Linked-Clones for DevOps. Will VMware ever officially release the ability to do Instant Clones?
A: Yes, this is definitely on the short-term roadmap. We need the APIs to be public first.

Q: Are there plans in the work to attach vmk’s to other TCPIP stacks? It can be painful constructing the objects and spec’s.
A: Yeah, clearly this is available in Get-View but agreed it needs to be surfaced up. It’s on the backlog!

Q: For PowerCLI, will VMware ever release a fully supported NSX module?
A: Have you seen PowerNSX? Would love to know what you think of that. We are working closely with the NSX team.

Q: Now that PowerShell is in Linux, when will we be able to run PowerCLI on a Linux box?
A: Yes, check out the PowerCLI Fling and Docker images etc.

Q: Can we hope/expect to see more functionality brought to REST in updates to 6.5, or will it be more along releases?
A: You will see more functionality released via these APIs in future versions.

Q: Are there plans to try and unify all products using the same API approach to reduce the headaches associated with learning all of these different API’s?
A: Our plan is to make all APIs at VMware as easy to use with the tools that developers and admins want to use. More to come on this in the future!

Q: Any ideas if vSphere Replication will get some API support?
A: Wouldn’t that be nice! We’ve been forwarding this to the PM. Can’t comment on his plans for this, though.

Q: For PowerCLI, has VMware put together any packages yet to fully backup vCenter (all configuration settings)? Don’t care about the DB. But having all the backups via PowerCLI would allow for very granular restore of items/settings. I have a version of this I have written myself, but it is not all encompassing, so some things get missed/not restored when you do a full restore/migration.
A: Not as of today (at least that we’re aware of). There is at least one project that’s currently being worked on, though. So, it is certainly on the radar as a known pain point.

Q: Does anyone know of a way to programmatically set Post Power-On Steps under VM Recovery Properties in SRM? I add a command entry for each VM (executed on recovery SRM server) and creating those entries for hundreds of VMs is a big pain.
A: Have you checked the SRM API Guide? Might be in there: https://www.vmware.com/support/developer/srm-api/

Q: Speaking of vCenter alarms… is there any effort to make creation/manipulation of vCenter alarms via PowerCLI easier?
A: Working on getting the APIs made public for this so we can surface it up via PowerCLI.

Q: I’ve got the REST SDK for 6.5. Love it! Do you know if it will work for versions other than 6.5?
A: Content library and tagging work in 6.0, but the rest is exclusive to 6.5. Docs for the 6.0 stuff: https://code.vmware.com/web/sdk/60/vcloudsuite-rest

Q: How long will PowerCLI (officially) support ESXi/vSphere 5.5?
A: As long as ESXi/vSphere 5.5 is supported we will maintain the versions that work with PowerCLI. However, future versions of PowerCLI may not maintain complete backwards compatibility that far.

Q: REST API stuff looks great, honestly. Breath of fresh air! As a PowerShell user, though, I just haven’t been motivated to explore the functionality yet. Any use cases you guys would recommend right now?
A: If you’re happy with PowerCLI and it meets all of your use cases, probably not. It does allow you to more easily consume the API than SOAP and allows for the creation of other language bindings that may not be officially supported such as for Rust, Erlang, etc. As a PowerShell user you are spoiled but if you are building modern applications or looking to use industry REST based tools its worth checking out. “Evolving the vSphere APIs” is a great starting point from the last VMworld.