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Excited to see results from my "AI-assisted" code at @aifortherestofus.live next week in London. All sorts of tech to power the website, badge printing/scanning, live captioning and more has been built in a very short time!

Check out the amazing agenda and get tickets! aifortherestofus.live/agenda
AI for the rest of us - London 2025 Agenda
View the complete agenda for AI for the rest of us London 2025 conference. Two days of inspiring talks, workshops, and keynotes.
aifortherestofus.live
October 9, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Looking for a way to transition from TanzuKubernetesCluster API to Cluster API without rolling out new clusters? - this blog post has you covered: blogs.vmware.com/cloud-founda... #VMware #Kubernetes #VKS
vSphere Kubernetes Service: Retiring TanzuKubernetesCluster (TKC) Resources and transitioning to Cluster API - VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Blog
With the deprecation of the TanzuKubernetesCluster (TKC) API in TKG Service 3.2.0, customers can now retire TKC resources and utilize Cluster API fully. Discover how to make this transition smoothly a...
blogs.vmware.com
February 24, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Oh crap, Labyrinth was 40 years ago!
January 31, 2025 at 4:01 AM
1 week in America so far and realize I basically feel like an alien because everything is a film quote. (My film knowledge stops around 30 years ago at Labyrinth) HALP! And no, forcing me to watch the Star Wars movies in release or numerical order will not help!
January 31, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Nice to be back in Seattle visiting some old haunts! Off to the office tomorrow!
January 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Reposted by Stuart Preston
“Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes” - this is a great write up of the slippery slope many people go down because they think k8s is too complex. Not saying it can work everywhere but this is a common story. (h/t to @timothysc.bsky.social for finding it)

www.macchaffee.com/blog/2024/yo...
Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes
Mac's Tech Blog
www.macchaffee.com
January 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
So long, birdsite!
November 18, 2024 at 12:00 AM
Definite FOMO for #kubecon SLC. Will have to get to #kubecon EU in London next year at least!
November 10, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Absolutely shattered but in a good way — @hannahfoxwell.bsky.social AI for the rest of us went off without too many hitches. Thank you to the volunteers, suppliers, sponsors and attendees today who made it happen! #aifortherestofus
October 24, 2024 at 8:07 PM
Reposted by Stuart Preston
Fantastic first day AI for the Rest of Us
Learned a lot!
So glad we’ve crossed the pond for this!
October 24, 2024 at 6:10 PM
Just announced: VMware Kubernetes Service 3.2 is now GA! Importantly this release adds support for Windows Containers on Windows Server 2022!

blogs.vmware.com/cloud-founda...
VKS - Announcing Support for Windows Container workloads
VMware vSphere Kubernetes Service (previously VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service) version 3.2 is now Generally Available, which supports the latest version of Kubernetes – 1.31. We are thrilled to i...
blogs.vmware.com
October 22, 2024 at 11:06 AM
Thanks to the vendor at #kcduk who offered me a laptop sticker “to make me feel better about putting our prices up”. Wasn’t quite the reception I was expecting tbf!
October 22, 2024 at 10:29 AM
It has been a long while since I’ve had the energy for career-related social media but think Bluesky might be the platform! X just isn’t doing it for me any more :-(
October 21, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Reposted by Stuart Preston
"From concept to deployment, VMware Cloud Foundation allowed us to get up and running with private AI in just a matter of days" 👈 Very cool VMware Private AI story from the U.S. Senate Federal Credit Union 👏

www.prnewswire.com/news-release...
U.S. Senate Federal Credit Union Showcases Innovative AI Use at VMware Explore 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Senate Federal Credit Union (USSFCU) stood out at VMware Explore 2024, a global conference held at the Venetian Convention and Expo...
www.prnewswire.com
September 19, 2024 at 11:26 PM
Reposted by Stuart Preston
Tanzu Kubernetes Releases (TKr) 1.28.8 is now available for vSphere 8.x (requires 80U2c or later) 🥳

📒: docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Ta...
docs.vmware.com
May 8, 2024 at 7:32 PM
Reposted by Stuart Preston
Finishing up new script that builds on my Automated VCF Lab Deployment Script to automatically commission ESXi hosts for Workload Domain, creates WLD JSON & starts the deployment in less than 4minutes!

Also gave me opportunity to play w/PowerVCF, found some bugs + contributed
February 6, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Reposted by Stuart Preston
I've just published the initial #VMwareExplore EMEA sessions (211/269) which you can find using: vmwa.re/vmware-explore-2023 I'll update as new recordings are published, enjoy! 😁

Here's sneak peak at the current Top 10 by views so far:
November 10, 2023 at 2:02 AM
Reposted by Stuart Preston
🥰 What an AMAZING impact made by employees and with the support from the VMware Foundation! 🙏

93K+ hours of service learning from employees and over $63M+ in donations (including employer matching) just for 2023! 🤯
October 18, 2023 at 3:51 PM
Reposted by Stuart Preston
[New] - How to download offline copy of the Tanzu Kubernetes releases (TKr) Content Library? williamlam.com/2023/10/how-...

👆Can host your own VMware TKR Content Library on Synology (which is what I did) or any HTTP(s) endpoint for your vSphere w/Tanzu deployments!
October 10, 2023 at 2:37 PM
Reposted by Stuart Preston
"NTDEV says that VMware worked best for him. For example, NTDEV said Hyper-V would exhibit freezing issues after three layers of nesting. VirtualBox was also a dead-end, at two layers deep." 👈 Very cool demo! No surprises here 😁

www.tomshardware.com/news/wincept...
Winception: Running Microsoft’s Last Five OSes Simultaneously
Windows 7 running on Windows 8 running on Windows 8.1 running on Windows 10 running on Windows 11
www.tomshardware.com
September 5, 2023 at 2:25 PM
*taps mic* *screeching noise*

Excited to be returning to the @VMware Product Management team next week, working on Tanzu Kubernetes Grid once more. Exciting times ahead! #TKG #Tanzu
August 16, 2023 at 9:43 PM