Like many of our users, I was excited to hear that VMware Private AI Services (PAIS) will now be included as part of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), I already had some ideas brewing in my head and I definitely needed to get some hands on!
While setting up some of the requirements for PAIS, I ran into a couple of issues that revolved around the use of self-signed TLS certificates, which is probably common for many of you, especially in a lab/proof of concept environment.
I spent good chunk of the day debugging the issues, which was not even the worse part, but it was the error messages that we saw. The error messages was not from the product code, but rather the underlying libraries that it relies upon and if you try to interpret the message as-is, you could go down a rabbit hole.
PAIS Engineering is already aware of the issues I ran into, so these will be enhanced in future updates but I did want to share the scenarios in case you run into them while deploying PAIS in your environment.