Whether it be virtual machines, files or even Acme Corporation Whatsits, querying a large set requires a little thought. Quick intro note – for the purposes of this article we’ll define large as more than 500 items, even though many environments are much larger. Consider the following basic scenario: What about the questions that may …
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Rinse & Repeat (Cloud-Init Lab)
The labs on the Nutanix Developer portal, up until now, have covered a few things. Nutanix products like Calm, technical subjects such as API usage (Python, C#, PHP), to name a few. Today’s quick lab introduces the use of Nutanix Acropolis and Cloud-Init together. By following this lab, you will learn how to deploy VMs …
Number 5 is alive! (Calm Lab)
Ok so it’s technically number 6, but who can forget that iconic line? 🙂 Today’s quick post introduces the latest lab to join the Nutanix Developer Portal labs lineup! The lab, named Calm Lab 1.0, is aimed squarely at getting exposure to Nutanix Calm, including how you, our developer community, could integrate your scripts directly …
API Finger Food (Code Samples)
While writing these blog posts, I often find myself saying “One of the most common questions we get is …” The interesting thing is that it’s absolutely real – we get a wide range of questions from customers, partners, community and event attendees. Naturally, we do see some patterns when looking at those questions. Today’s …
Developer Day at .NEXT has been deployed to production
Our inaugural Developer Day event happened May 7th, 2019 at the Anaheim Marriott as a prelude to the awesomeness that is .NEXT. This exclusive event would bring together some of our most technical customers and Nutantix folks for a jam-packed day of learning, discussions and hands on labs. Breakfast was served and the day started off …
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Windows on the APIs – New Lab Available Now
In the past month or two we’ve published a couple of introductory labs. Based on PHP and Python, they’re a great intro into using the Nutanix APIs and can be found on the Nutanix Developer Portal Labs page. But … what if you aren’t a PHP or Python developer? We’ve just published a intro new …
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Using Nutanix Calm & HTTP Tasks
In part 1 of this mini series, Using Nutanix Calm & eScript, we simulated calling a third party API to get an IPAM-issued IP address. The intention behind that article was to look at something that’s more common than you might think – assigning an IP address to a VM in an environment that doesn’t …
Using Nutanix Calm & eScript
Note: Please see the updated version of this article: Using Nutanix Calm & eScript: Update. This original article is being kept for maintenance and legacy purposes only. Introduction In this article we’re going to look at something that often comes up in customer & partner conversations. To understand the requirement, let’s look at a question: …
Ready, Set, LAB!
Ready, set … what? With the release of our shiny new API Reference, we’ve decided to accompany it with a new (and small, for now) collection of lab resources. These labs were written primarily for use at events like .NEXT on Tour, but we’ve also decided it makes total sense to make the labs available. …
New API Reference is LIVE!
Those familiar with the Nutanix Developer Portal will be familiar with how the Nutanix REST API documentation used to look. From a public documentation perspective, little had changed for some time. Over the past few months we’ve been doing a lot of work in the back-end of the Developer Portal and are pleased to announce …