Andrios Robert

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The simplest way to make Tanzu XML-RPC work like it should

Most teams discover Tanzu XML-RPC the hard way—when someone’s build pipeline locks up because an endpoint expects XML instead of JSON. You can almost hear the collective sigh from DevOps. Tanzu is powerful, VMware’s distributed application platform built for managing infrastructure at scale. XML-RPC, meanwhile, is an

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What Tanzu Windows Admin Center Actually Does and When to Use It

Picture this: you’re managing a fleet of Windows Server nodes, some on-prem, others trailing cloud-side in a hybrid setup. You have Kubernetes apps from VMware Tanzu humming along but no clean surface to handle Windows workloads, permissions, and observability in one place. Tanzu Windows Admin Center bridges that fractured

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The Simplest Way to Make TeamCity Tomcat Work Like It Should

Picture this: your builds are ready, your CI pipeline is immaculate, and then authentication hits like a brick wall. TeamCity Tomcat sounds neat on paper until it starts arguing about ports, users, or HTTPS certificates. It is the classic DevOps standoff—powerful tools, slightly misaligned defaults. TeamCity is JetBrains’ reliable

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The simplest way to make Terraform Windows Server 2019 work like it should

You have code that builds the world, but Windows Server still insists on being manually blessed by an admin with RDP. Terraform promises automation, yet somewhere between the plan and apply, Windows becomes sticky. That’s the tension: predictable infrastructure meets the most traditional of operating systems. Terraform shines because

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What Terraform Windows Server Core Actually Does and When to Use It

You spin up a Windows Server Core instance. It’s clean, fast, stripped of the GUI bloat. Then someone asks you to make infrastructure changes at scale without breaking production. Suddenly, that minimalist box starts looking like a puzzle. This is where Terraform Windows Server Core earns its keep. Terraform

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What Tanzu Vim Actually Does and When to Use It

You click “connect cluster,” wait, and then realize you still need to chase down a kubeconfig, a service account, and maybe a teammate who knows what that error code means. Tanzu Vim exists to end that nonsense. It gives developers safe, governed access to Kubernetes workloads without anyone babysitting credentials.

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The simplest way to make Tanzu Windows Server 2022 work like it should

You know the moment when a deployment slips from “ready to ship” to “mysteriously broken”? That’s usually when your Windows Server node forgets who it is in the larger Tanzu picture. Tanzu Windows Server 2022 solves that alignment gap, letting workloads run in a consistent, manageable way across on-prem

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The simplest way to make TeamCity Temporal work like it should

Picture this: your CI pipeline finishes a build, but the next step sits idle because someone needs to approve deployment or rotate credentials. You pace. You refresh. You curse. Temporal workflows fix that waiting game. Combined with TeamCity, they turn what used to be manual gatekeeping into predictable, automated progress.

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What Tanzu YugabyteDB Actually Does and When to Use It

You can’t scale a database by duct-taping VMs together, no matter how many YAML files you throw at it. At some point, teams running modern apps on Kubernetes face the same question: how do we get transactional consistency and global resilience without slowing down every deploy? That’s where

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The simplest way to make Terraform Windows Server 2022 work like it should

Picture this: a new Windows Server 2022 instance spins up at 2 a.m., and your teammate hopes Terraform left it in a predictable state. The logs say it did. The security auditor hopes so too. This is the quiet promise of infrastructure as code—you get repeatability instead of

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The simplest way to make Tanzu Zerto work like it should

Picture this: a late-night deployment goes sideways and your production cluster starts blinking like a warning light. Your mind jumps to recovery windows and data integrity. This is where Tanzu Zerto earns its keep. It promises to marry VMware’s application modernization power with Zerto’s disaster recovery expertise, creating

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The Simplest Way to Make Terraform Windows Server Datacenter Work Like It Should

You’ve written a Terraform plan to spin up an entire Windows Server Datacenter, but something feels off. The config looks fine, yet permissions break midway, and your security team wants proof that access is controlled. Every Windows instance deployed by Terraform should be identical, auditable, and compliant. Instead, it

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The Simplest Way to Make TeamCity Terraform Work Like It Should

You know that sinking feeling when your CI system builds perfectly but refuses to touch your cloud with Terraform? That’s usually not a syntax problem. It’s an identity problem, a permissions tangle waiting to eat your runtime. Getting TeamCity Terraform to cooperate is less about YAML and more

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What Tanzu Windows Server Core Actually Does and When to Use It

Your Windows workloads are running fine until someone asks you to containerize them. You spin up a container, hit “build,” and watch the logs fill with cryptic PowerShell errors. Now you’re knee-deep in DLLs wondering if this all belongs on Kubernetes at all. That’s exactly where Tanzu Windows

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The simplest way to make Tanzu k3s work like it should

Clusters break down in the smallest, stupidest ways. A kubeconfig mismatch. A certificate that expired last Tuesday. Someone’s laptop clock being five minutes off. Tanzu k3s exists to remove that kind of chaos so teams can move fast without fearing what happens under the hood. Tanzu is VMware’s

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What Tanzu Windows Server Datacenter Actually Does and When to Use It

Picture an ops team waiting for an approval just to spin up one Windows workload. The clock ticks, Slack pings pile up, and everyone knows the bottleneck is somewhere inside infrastructure permissions. Tanzu Windows Server Datacenter exists to erase that drag. It lets VMware Tanzu manage and deploy Windows containers

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What Tanzu Windows Server 2016 Actually Does and When to Use It

A new cluster comes online. Ten people need access. Permissions are scattered across spreadsheets and half-forgotten scripts. You sigh, because Windows credentials and Tanzu workloads rarely agree on anything. Tanzu Windows Server 2016 fixes that mismatch, turning identity chaos into predictable automation instead of prayer. At its core, Tanzu brings

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The simplest way to make Tanzu Zabbix work like it should

You know that moment when a cluster starts whispering warnings, but your monitoring dashboard is ten clicks behind? That’s usually the signal your systems want Tanzu and Zabbix to meet for coffee. When they do, your observability stops feeling like detective work and starts behaving like engineering. Tanzu gives

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What Tanzu Zendesk actually does and when to use it

Every ops team knows the pain of juggling tickets, permissions, and microservice chaos. A build breaks, someone needs production access, and before you can blink, there’s a swarm of Slack messages hunting for approvals. Tanzu Zendesk fits right into that mess and quietly restores order. Tanzu, VMware’s platform

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The Simplest Way to Make TeamCity Tekton Work Like It Should

Your build just passed in TeamCity, but now your Tekton pipeline sits waiting for a token refresh or a staging deploy approval. Half the engineering floor has that same grim expression that says, “It worked locally.” The story is always the same: identity, permissions, and context wind up scattered across

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The Simplest Way to Make TeamCity TestComplete Work Like It Should

Your automated tests are solid. The build pipeline runs. Yet every night, one flaky test or missing permission ruins the party. That’s when most DevOps teams finally look at connecting TeamCity and TestComplete properly instead of duct-taping scripts together. TeamCity orchestrates CI pipelines like a pit crew runs a

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The Simplest Way to Make TeamCity Ubiquiti Work Like It Should

Your CI pipeline should not feel like a fortress you keep forgetting the keys to. Yet every time a build agent needs network access or credentials, you end up juggling tokens, static configs, and maybe a bit of luck. That is where TeamCity and Ubiquiti meet, and when set up

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The simplest way to make TeamCity Vim work like it should

You know that moment when your CI pipeline hangs on a build trigger and you instinctively blame the YAML? Sometimes it’s not the YAML. Sometimes it’s your editor, or, more accurately, how you’ve trained it to talk to your CI. That’s where TeamCity Vim comes in,

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How to configure TeamCity Traefik Mesh for secure, repeatable access

A production build pipeline is only as strong as its weakest service hop. When your build agents call internal APIs or cross environments, that hop might be the one thing separating you from chaos. TeamCity and Traefik Mesh together can keep it safe, traceable, and fast without killing developer momentum.

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The Simplest Way to Make TeamCity Windows Server 2022 Work Like It Should

You know that feeling when a build fails for no reason, logs scatter everywhere, and the CI server acts like it forgot who runs the show? That’s usually when someone mutters, “We should clean up TeamCity on Windows Server 2022.” And they’re right. Done properly, this setup makes