VMware Aria Guardrails is a central policy management system with desired state principle and primary focus on public clouds. It consists of several templates that easily can be used by the admin to apply his desired policy on public clouds. One of the templates is for AWS IAM management to define the password policy (like… Read More »
This post is intended to show a very basic setup of VMware NSX Cloud to demonstrate the capability to enforce consistent microsegmentation policy for hybrid cloud environments. I will describe the setup of NSX Cloud and the operation of the Native Cloud Enforced Mode which relies on firewall functions delivered natively by AWS (or Azure).… Read More »
For a customer demo I needed a quick way to interconnect my on-premises environment with a AWS VPC without getting a AWS direct connect or the possibility to open the on-premises firewall for a NSX IPSEC tunnel. So I made it work with OpenVPN which just needs TCP Port 443 to be allowed on the… Read More »