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Deploying VMware App Launchpad for VMware Cloud Director

In this post, I am going to review the deployment steps for installing and configuring the newly available VMware App Launchpad . Also, I will be doing a high-level overview as I am learning about this new VCD addition.

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VMware App Launchpad Introduction

First, the VMware App Launchpad is a platform that allows for the ability to create application catalogs within VMware Cloud Director (VCD) for self-service. The value behind this is Bitnami’s entire catalog platform, which is integrated into VMware App Launchpad. A provider can also create custom applications and expose these through the plugin.

Upgrading to VMware Cloud Director 10.1 – SSL Management Changes

This will be a quick post discussing SSL changes inside of VMware Cloud Director 10.1. I wanted to publish this as it’s important to provide further context around these changes. Furthermore, there could be errors around endpoint behavior post-upgrade when using self-signed certificates.

10.1 New Items on VMware Cloud Director 10.1

VMware Cloud Director 10.1 is now out! I’d like to highlight ten (technically, 10.1 🙂 ) items that showcase some of the new functionality within this release. This is not by any means complete. However, these are top of mind items I’ve interacted or reviewed.

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Updating the VMware Cloud Director 10.0 Appliance and Other Tidbits

In this blog post, I am going to review the process of updating a VMware Cloud Director (VCD) virtual appliance along with a quick walkthrough of this 10.0.0.1 patch release.

Yesterday, we released our first 10.0 patch – release notes here.

Please note that while we can upgrade via the VMware Update Repository, the 10.0.0.1 patch has not been propagated just yet (as of January 16th, 2020).