Setting Up Federated Identity Management for VMC on AWS – Authentication with ADFS

The Federated Identity feature of VMware Cloud on AWS can be integrated with Microsoft Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS). In this integration model, the customer dedicated vIDM tenant will work as the SAML Service Provider and the ADFS will work as the IdP. Disclaimer: The ADFS settings in this blog are to demo the integration …

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Automate Avi LB Service with Ansible

Avi Networks load balancing platform offers fantastic automation capabilities, which allow us to automate the load balancing service via some popular Infrastructure as Code tools like Ansible and Terraform. Today, I will demonstrate the Day 1 automation using Ansible (version 2.8.5) in this blog. [root@code1 ~]# ansible --version ansible 2.8.5 config file = /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg configured …

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Build Load Balancing Service in VMC on AWS with Avi Load Balancer – Part4

This blog is Part 4 of this series. If you have not gone through the Part1, Part2 and Part3, please go and check them out now. In Part3, we set up an active-active global load balancing service for our testing application (https://www.sddc.vmconaws.link). Some applications require stickiness between a client and a server. That is to say, …

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Build Load Balancing Service in VMC on AWS with Avi Load Balancer – Part3

This blog is Part 3 of this series. If you have not gone through  Part1 and Part2, please go and check them out now. In Part 1 and Part 2, we deployed the Avi Load Balancers and completed the local load balancing setup in VMC SDDC01. To achieve high availability across different SDDCs, global load …

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Build Load Balancing Service in VMC on AWS with Avi Load Balancer – Part2

This blog is Part 2 of this series. If you have not gone through the Part1, please go and check it out now. In Part 2, we will demo how to set up a local load balancing virtual service for a web-based application on our deployed Avi load balancer. The IP Address allocation and network …

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Build Load Balancing Service in VMC on AWS with Avi Load Balancer – Part1

When we design a highly available (HA) infrastructure for a mission-critical application, local load balancing and global load balancing are always the essential components of the solution. This series of blogs will demonstrate how to build an enterprise-level local load balancing and global load balancing service in VMC on AWS SDDC with Avi Networks load balancer. …

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Setting Up Federated Identity Management for VMC on AWS – Authentication with Okta IdP

The Federated Identity feature of VMware Cloud on AWS can be integrated with all 3rd party IdPs who support SAML version 2.0. In this integration model, the customer dedicated vIDM tenant will work as SAML Service Provider. If the 3rd party IdP is set up to perform multi-factor authentication (MFA), the customer will be prompted …

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Setting Up Federated Identity Management for VMC on AWS – Authentication with Active Directory

This blog is the second blog of this Federated Identity Management for VMC on AWS series. Please complete the vIDM connector installation and setup as per my first blog of this series before moving forward. (https://davidwzhang.com/2019/07/31/setting-up-federated-identity-management-for-vmc-on-aws-install-and-setup-vidm-connector/) VMware Cloud on AWS Federated Identity management supports different kinds of authentication methods. This blog will demo the basic …

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Setting Up Federated Identity Management for VMC on AWS – Install and Setup vIDM Connector

As an enterprise using VMware Cloud Services, you can set up federation with your corporate domain. Federating your corporate domain allows you to use your organization's single sign-on and identity source to sign in to VMware Cloud Services. You can also set up multi-factor authentication as part of federation access policy settings. Federated identity management …

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Install Docker Offline on Centos7

Recently, I had to build an environment which have a kind of real web application running to test LBaaS site affinity solution,. After a few minutes,I made a decision to install a Jenkins container on my testing Centos 7 virtual machines.  Unfortunately, my Centos virtual machines have no Internet access. So I spent a bit …

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