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Offline Depot Management for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF): Legacy and Current Tooling
This post documents how to design, build, and maintain an offline depot for VMware Cloud Foundation using current supported tooling while accounting for legacy requirements in VCF 5.x environments. Official vendor documentation remains authoritative; this article clarifies tooling transitions, operational behavior, and real-world coexistence scenarios.
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Building a Production-Ready Dual-Stack NTP Infrastructure with Chrony
This post documents a production-ready, dual-stack NTP design using Chrony. It covers upstream pools, peer configuration, server hardening, and monitoring techniques to deliver reliable time over both IPv4 and IPv6. The result is a resilient, DNS-independent NTP infrastructure suitable for virtualized environments.
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Building a Dual-Stack BIND 9 DNS Infrastructure on Rocky Linux
Built from scratch on Rocky Linux 10.1 Minimal, this post walks through deploying BIND 9 in a primary/secondary configuration with dual-stack IPv4/IPv6. It covers directory layout, SELinux permissions, firewall rules, recursive forwarding, zone transfer behavior, and the quirks of IPv6 reverse DNS (nibble format), with validation commands to confirm everything works.
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Aaron Rombaut
Technologist & Writer