Michael West

Michael is a Technical Product Manager in the Cloud Platform Business Unit and has been with VMware for 10 years.  He is focused on technologies like Kubernetes that operationalize container based applications at scale. When not ruining his eyesight while staring at small font CLIs, he enjoys fitness training, stand up paddle boarding and his Staffordshire Bull Terrier - Elvis.

Recent Posts

vSphere With Tanzu – Getting Started with vDS Networking Setup

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(By Michael West, Technical Product Manager, VMware)   With the release of vSphere 7 Update 1, VMware has extended the capability of vSphere with Tanzu (formerly vSphere 7 with Kubernetes) to more fully support your existing vSphere environment.  The fastest way to provide developer ready Kubernetes infrastructure to DevOps teams is through vSphere with Tanzu. Read more...
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vSphere 7 with Kubernetes – Shared Infrastructure Services

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(By Michael West, Technical Product Manager, VMware)   The early adoption of Kubernetes generally involved patterns of relatively few large clusters deployed to bare metal infrastructure.  While applications running on the clusters tended to be ephemeral, the clusters themselves were not.  What we are seeing today is a shift toward many smaller clusters, aligned with Read more...

vSphere 7 with Kubernetes Network Service Part 2: Tanzu Kubernetes Cluster

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(By Michael West, Technical Product Manager, VMware) vSphere 7 with Kubernetes enables operations teams to deliver both infrastructure and application services as part of the core platform.  The Network service provides automation of software defined networking to both the Kubernetes clusters embedded in vSphere and Tanzu Kubernetes clusters deployed through the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service Read more...

vSphere 7 with Kubernetes Network Service Part 1: The Supervisor Cluster

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(By Michael West, Technical Product Manager, VMware) vSphere 7 with Kubernetes enables operations teams to deliver both infrastructure and application services as part of the core platform.  The Network service provides automation of software defined networking to both the Kubernetes clusters embedded in vSphere and Tanzu Kubernetes clusters deployed through the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service Read more...
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vSphere 7 with Kubernetes – Declarative GitOps Continuous Delivery for Tanzu Kubernetes clusters

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(By Michael West, Technical Product Manager, VMware) Development teams are moving at ever increasing velocity.  Driven by dynamically changing requirements from the lines of business, they are embracing unprecedented levels of automation.  Infrastructure teams are designing new automation frameworks as well.   The traditional approach has been an imperative framework.   This requires the operations team to Read more...

Project Pacific – Namespaces on Kubernetes

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Michael West Technical Product Manager, VMware Organizations are rapidly evolving tools and processes to better support DevOps cultures that aim to deliver applications and services at higher velocity.  A byproduct of this evolution for VMware administrators is the need for increased collaboration with development teams and in many cases expansion of responsibility. That responsibility can Read more...