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Hiking Trails

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This post is not technology related, so feel free to ignore.

For those that know me or follow me on Twitter, know that I enjoy the outdoors and hiking. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, our family would normally go on several hikes a year, usually when there is a long holiday weekend or during the winter break season.

During the COVID-19 lockdown, I came to learn that my buddy Sunny Dua was doing a fun challenge with his son, 30 hikes in a 30 days (IIRC) and I thought that was such a great idea! I figure I would slowly ease my daughter into hiking, especially as she was much younger than Sunny's son. With that, I started hiking with my daughter (late July), doing one hike every Sunday and see where it goes.

As you can see from the tweet below, we really enjoyed our time together and she also reached an amazing milestone concluding 2020 with 20 hikes, totaling 100+miles!

During this time, I also kept a log of all the trails that we had completed and potential trails for the future, especially with so many options within the Bay Area. I have shared this list with friends and colleagues looking for hiking options and I realize I should probably just make it public for anyone that might be interested in checking out a new hike if you live in area or visiting.

Hiking Trails: https://github.com/lamw/hiking

As you can see, we have continued with this tradition (time permitting) and will continue to update the list of trails that we complete as a family.

Total Hikes: 66 (278.67 miles)

  • 2020: 20 (103.3 miles)

  • 2021: 20 (72.09 miles)

  • 2022: 26 (103.28 miles)

VMware Cloud Enterprise Federation with Microsoft Azure Active Directory

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As a follow-up to my recent blog post on how to configure identity federation between VMware Cloud and AWS SSO using our the new Just-in-Time (JiT) provisioning method, I was also interested to see what the process looked like with Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD), which is another popular identity provider, which can also benefit our Azure VMware Solution (AVS) customers leveraging VMware Cloud Services. Similar to AWS SSO, I had never worked with Azure AD before and this was a good opportunity to check out their service.

Here is a quick video for those interested in the final logon experience when VMware Cloud is using Azure AD as the identity provider:

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Tech Preview of Horizon Provider for VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA)

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Last week, Michael Gasch and I had the pleasure of presenting the VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA) solution to the Omaha VMUG community. The session was an introduction to VEBA, but we also covered some brand new topics including writing your own functions for VEBA and a quick look at the evolution of VEBA.

Note: For those interested, the recording for the Omaha VMUG session can be accessed here with following password: MYN%0k9

One of the topics that I was really looking forward to sharing with the VMUG audience was a sneak peak at our upcoming v0.7 release which will include two new Event Providers: Webhook and VMware Horizon!

About a month back, I had teased some upcoming collaboration with Chris Halstead, famous for his VMware Horizon Flings and there was some good speculation and hope that this would mean VMware Horizon support for VEBA.

I am excited to share that we have been working on a new VMware Horizon Event Provider for VEBA and this will allow users to easily build and consume event-driven automation reacting to a number of VMware Horizon events! In fact, this was only made possible with the new Horizon Audit Events API that was recently introduced in the latest Horizon 2106 release which now has over 850 different events!

We are really excited to see what our users will do with this new functionality and if you are interested in trying out the Tech Preview of the VMware Horizon Provider for VEBA simply join the VEBA Slack Channel and you will be able to download the latest OVA appliance.

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