https://thenestedlab.com/series/ Recent content in Series on The Nested Lab Hugo en-gb Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:40:00 +0100 https://thenestedlab.com/series/all-apps-in-practice/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:40:00 +0100 https://thenestedlab.com/series/all-apps-in-practice/ VCF Automation's supervisor-native path, used for real: the same VKS cluster built two ways, and a seven-app demo stack behind seven VIPs. https://thenestedlab.com/series/the-vpc-pod-papers/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:30:00 +0100 https://thenestedlab.com/series/the-vpc-pod-papers/ Isolated, identical, catalog-driven lab environments on NSX VPCs — starting with what a VPC actually is and ending with a whole nested-ESXi pod as one catalog tile. Read in order; each post assumes the one before. https://thenestedlab.com/series/the-lab-factory/ Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:40:00 +0100 https://thenestedlab.com/series/the-lab-factory/ How a team gives every consultant their own complete VCF 9.1 instance on demand. One catalog request produces nested ESXi hosts, a full bringup (vCenter, NSX, SDDC Manager, fleet components) and the day-N stack — the host-deploy script reborn as a catalog item, the VCF Installer driven from vRO, and validateOnly on everything. https://thenestedlab.com/series/dark-site-notes/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://thenestedlab.com/series/dark-site-notes/ Air-gapped VKS and GPU Operator upgrades: tar formats, cosign signatures, kernel headers, and every check that passes right up until activation. https://thenestedlab.com/series/llm-ops-on-vcf/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://thenestedlab.com/series/llm-ops-on-vcf/ A vLLM metrics pipeline into VCF Operations: don't ship the histogram, monitor the monitor, and the four alerts to configure on day one. https://thenestedlab.com/series/observability-on-vcf/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://thenestedlab.com/series/observability-on-vcf/ Getting logs and metrics out of everything — VKS packages and Windows agents alike — and into VCF Operations, including the unsupported combinations that work anyway. https://thenestedlab.com/series/the-windows-build-pipeline/ Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000 https://thenestedlab.com/series/the-windows-build-pipeline/ Windows Server 2025 on Aria Automation, done properly: a three-layer design, a state machine that survives four reboots, and a validation report worth shipping.