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Automated Aria Suite (Lifecycle, Identity, Operations, Logs & Automation) Lab Deployment Script

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I recently got reacquainted with the Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager (ASLCM) solution, which makes it super easy for anyone to manage the deployment, configuration and lifecycle for the complete Aria suite of products including Aria Identity, Aria Operations, Aria Operations for Logs and Aria Automation.

Users can deploy the various Aria products in either standalone or clustered mode (for high availability purposes), with the former being ideal for learning and homelab purposes. In addition to deploying ASLCM and the individual Aria products, I wanted to also use this as an opportunity explore the ASLCM REST API and what better way to learn than to have a use case to get hands on experience.

While ASLCM already provides a simple way to deploy Aria products using the UI and includes a nice export/import feature for an environment configuration in JSON, I wanted to do the same, but programmatically using the ASLCM REST API to fully configure the environment.

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VMware Flings are back!

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In addition to the big announcements from yesterday on major simplification of the new VMware by Broadcom offers and licensing model and the new chapter for the VMware Desktop Hypervisor products, I have one more piece of exciting news that I would like to share with our users, just in time for the holidays! 🎁

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Configure log forwarding from Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) to vRealize Log Insight Cloud

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As much as I enjoy kubectl'ing logs in real time for troubleshooting and debugging purposes, this usually does not scale beyond a couple of Kubernetes (K8s) Clusters if you are lucky. Even then, you will not retain any of the historical logs which may be required for deeper analysis or for auditing purposes. This is usually solved by having a centralized log management platform and while working with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG) running on VMware Cloud on AWS, a solution like vRealize Log Insight Cloud (vRLIC) makes a lot of sense.

While browsing through the vRLIC console, I noticed that it supports a number of log sources including K8s which was exactly what I was looking for. However, after going through the instructions in configuring fluentd on my TKG Cluster, I found that that nothing was being sent. After a bit of debugging, I realized a few steps were actually missing that was required to setup this up on TKG Cluster.

I eventually figured it out and will be sharing this feedback with the vRLIC folks but in the meantime, you can follow the instructions below on how to forward both system and application logs from your TKG Cluster or any K8s deployment for that matter which has outbound connectivity to connect to vRLIC.


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