You could be forgiven for thinking … “Dang, that’s a seriously long blog post title!” You’d be right, and there’s a good reason for it. It’s true to say that Nutanix has always had an extremely strong focus on simplification and friction removal. One of the slogans/taglines that’s been used extensively over the years is […]
Category Archives: Calm
Launch a Nutanix Calm blueprint via API – Part 2
A couple of days ago I published a quick article entitled Launch a Nutanix Calm blueprint with API – Part 1. That article covered, as suggested by the excessively descriptive (:-)) title, how to use the Nutanix v3 APIs to launch a Nutanix Calm blueprint. In that article, I also said the article would be […]
Launch a Nutanix Calm blueprint via API – Part 1
Over the past few weeks and months a number of code samples have been added to the Nutanix Developer portal. Some of the languages they cover are as follows. Python PowerShell C# Bash scripting At the time of writing this article, July 22nd 2019, the code samples include various actions. For example: Listing entities such […]
Join us at the DevOps Enterprise Summit in London from June 25-27th!
Last month Nutanix had the pleasure of hosting Gene Kim as a keynote speaker at our inaugural Developer Day at .NEXT Anaheim. Feedback of the event was so positive from Nutanix Customers, Partners, and employees that we jumped at the opportunity to work with Gene again at the DevOps Enterprise Summit in London from June […]
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 […]
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
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: What if I don’t use DHCP in my environment? How can I call an external API that returns an IP address while creating a VM with Nutanix […]
Creating a CI/CD Pipeline with Nutanix Calm and Jenkins
Written by Michael Haigh, Technical Marketing Engineer at Nutanix As a developer or administrator, you’re likely aware of the value that Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery provide your business. But you’re also likely aware of the challenge of configuring your testing and deployment automation, which is critical to a successful CI/CD model. However, Nutanix […]
Nutanix Cloud Native and Calm: Better Together! Part II
Previously we covered importing a Calm Blueprint into your own environment, modifying the necessary fields to customize it, and then deploying a fully functional Nutanix Cloud Native application with Nutanix Calm. Today we’re diving into the architecture of the blueprint. Era Nutanix Era is a database management solution that that automates the provisioning and protection […]
Nutanix Cloud Native and Calm: Better Together!
Written by Michael Haigh, Technical Marketing Engineer at Nutanix Previously we covered how easy it is for developers and administrators to deploy an application onto Nutanix Cloud Native due to its adherence to open API standards. We deployed an Oscar e-commerce site, backing it with containers running on Nutanix Karbon, a PostgreSQL database cloned by […]