Kubernetes and VMware NSX

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IT is undergoing a huge transformation.

Organizations are moving away from static infrastructure to full automation on every aspect of IT. This major shift is not happening overnight. It is an evolutionary process, and people decide to evolve their IT at different speeds based on organizational needs.

When I decided to join the VMware Networking & Security Business Unit four years ago, the key deciding factor for me was that I felt that networking is adopting automation far too slowly. Do not get me wrong – we always automated network configurations in some form. I still remember vividly my time as a networking consultant at a major German airport. Back at the beginning of the new millennium, I used a combination of Perl, Telnet and Expect to migrate the configuration of a huge core network from a single-tenant configuration to a multi-tenant MPLS/VPN.  Nevertheless, at some point, network operators stopped evolving, and even today largely, we continue to automate by manually setting up new configuration into Continue reading