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Gotchas, how-tos and API stories on VMware, VCF, vRealize Automation/Orchestrator and AI — written as terminal output.

dennis@2vsteaks: ~ — zsh

dennis@2vsteaks:~$ whoami

Dennis Derks — Custom Integration Expert, Cloud & Modern Apps

dennis@2vsteaks:~$ cat mission.txt

Real-world VMware/VCF automation. Less marketing, more working code.

dennis@2vsteaks:~$ ls ~/topics

vRA · vRO · NSX-T · vSphere · Tanzu · REST-API · PowerShell · AI

dennis@2vsteaks:~$ ./read --latest


$ ls -lt ~/latest20 posts in the collection

cat ~/blog/* → all posts


$ whoami --verbosethe human behind the prompt

dennis@2vsteaks:~$ cat author.md
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online · freelance

whoami

Dennis Derks

Freelance Custom Integration Expert — Cloud & Modern Apps

Dennis Derks is a freelance Custom Integration Expert for Cloud & Modern Apps. After working as a senior consultant for VMware throughout NEMEA for more than nine years, he decided it was time to start a new chapter as a freelance consultant.

Over nine years as a senior VMware consultant across NEMEA, now freelance. Automation specialist in vRealize Automation & Orchestrator — today VCF Automation.

cat expertise.txt

  • vRealize Automation
  • vRealize Orchestrator
  • VCF Automation
  • NSX-T
  • vSphere
  • Tanzu / Kubernetes
  • JavaScript
  • PowerShell
  • Python
  • REST API

Curious why it’s called “2vSteaks”? Ask his former colleagues at VMware… or read the blog to find out ;-)

man dennis → full profile