The ordering rule: VPC, VPCAttachment, LoadBalancer, then the namespace - swap steps 3 and 4 and VIPs pend forever

The load balancer that must exist before the namespace

Addresses pending for ever, a retryable error that never stops retrying, and an ordering rule the docs don’t tell you: in a self-service NSX VPC, the load balancer must exist before the namespace that uses it.

16 September 2026 · Updated 1 October 2026 · 5 min · Adam Stretton
ContentValid: False — and the seven reasons why

Blueprinting the supervisor: seven CCI blueprint gotchas

Seven ways the nested-ESXi pod blueprint failed validation before it worked, from ${input} inside flow mappings to an image-sync race. Short, specific, and each one cost me a cycle.

16 September 2026 · Updated 1 October 2026 · 5 min · Adam Stretton