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Escaping the Ghost: Moving to Astro and Cloudflare Pages
Astro

Escaping the Ghost: Moving to Astro and Cloudflare Pages

How I migrated from a dynamic Ghost CMS to a blazing fast, statically generated Astro site on Cloudflare Pages.

29 Jul 20263 min read
The Hidden Contract in NKP 2.18
Nutanix

The Hidden Contract in NKP 2.18

What the release changes for the people who run it, and what to check before you touch anything.

11 Jul 20265 min read
Tenancy as an Application, Not a Platform
Nutanix

Tenancy as an Application, Not a Platform

SP Central composes years of Nutanix primitives into a tenant object with a lifecycle. The hypervisor never changes.

9 Jul 20265 min read
The Firewall Is a Waypoint, Not the Gateway
Nutanix

The Firewall Is a Waypoint, Not the Gateway

Native path steering inserts the firewall, so the workloads keep their gateway and never know it is there.

3 Jul 202612 min read
Why Inference Is Becoming a Control Plane Problem
Nutanix

Why Inference Is Becoming a Control Plane Problem

The real news in the latest enterprise AI release is not the models. It is who governs the tokens.

12 Jun 20264 min read
Nutanix Is Making Service Providers a First-Class Tenant
Nutanix

Nutanix Is Making Service Providers a First-Class Tenant

SP Central delivers the control plane MSPs have been building by hand. The verification badge might matter just as much.

11 Jun 20264 min read
NCP-MCI 7 Now Speaks Italian
Nutanix

NCP-MCI 7 Now Speaks Italian

Not everyone learns complex infrastructure concepts best in English, and that should never be a barrier to building real Nutanix expertise.

27 May 20264 min read
From Exam Blueprint to a 448-Page Nutanix Book
Nutanix

From Exam Blueprint to a 448-Page Nutanix Book

The exam is the target. Understanding the platform is the point.

13 May 20265 min read
From NDB to Native PostgreSQL Without Migration
Nutanix

From NDB to Native PostgreSQL Without Migration

The data layer is standard PostgreSQL on LVM. Nothing proprietary.

14 Apr 20266 min read
The NKP Certificate Catch-22
Nutanix

The NKP Certificate Catch-22

What happens when the only tool that can fix your credentials needs those same credentials to run.

25 Mar 20267 min read
Agentic AI on Nutanix and the Shift Toward Autonomous Infrastructure
Nutanix

Agentic AI on Nutanix and the Shift Toward Autonomous Infrastructure

Why networking, policy, and control will define the next generation of platforms.

17 Mar 20263 min read
Rethinking NKP for MSP Environments
Nutanix

Rethinking NKP for MSP Environments

What changed after evolving our management model, licensing strategy, and operational visibility in real-world MSP environments.

1 Feb 20265 min read
How to Save Public Floating IPs on Nutanix: The Simple Way
Nutanix

How to Save Public Floating IPs on Nutanix: The Simple Way

A single VPC design where subnets and microsegmentation avoid transit routing and floating IPs are assigned directly to workloads.

26 Jan 20264 min read
Why NKP Feels Different When You Run It as an MSP
Nutanix

Why NKP Feels Different When You Run It as an MSP

Because Kubernetes lifecycle management does not scale across customers.

19 Jan 20264 min read
When Prism Central Is Optional, and When It Still Isn’t
Nutanix

When Prism Central Is Optional, and When It Still Isn’t

Why control plane ownership is now explicit, and what that changes.

13 Jan 20265 min read
What’s New in NKP 2.17
Nutanix

What’s New in NKP 2.17

How networking changes affect upgrades more than features.

11 Jan 20264 min read
NCM Self-Service 4.3: When Automation Starts Thinking Like a Platform
Nutanix

NCM Self-Service 4.3: When Automation Starts Thinking Like a Platform

Why tunnels, service accounts, and global variables matter more than new features.

10 Jan 20263 min read
Composable Disaster Recovery in Nutanix NCI 7.5
Nutanix

Composable Disaster Recovery in Nutanix NCI 7.5

Why async, near-sync, and Metro now coexist as a single design model.

9 Jan 20264 min read
Why Flow Standalone in NCI 7.5 Is a Design Choice, Not an Upgrade
Nutanix

Why Flow Standalone in NCI 7.5 Is a Design Choice, Not an Upgrade

Powerful by nature. Intentionally not retrofittable.

6 Jan 20264 min read
Reading Nutanix NCI 7.5 Through the Dark Site Upgrade Orchestrator
Nutanix

Reading Nutanix NCI 7.5 Through the Dark Site Upgrade Orchestrator

Why lifecycle enforcement becomes visible in air-gapped environments.

4 Jan 20263 min read
The Hairpin Trap in Nutanix Stretched VPCs
Nutanix

The Hairpin Trap in Nutanix Stretched VPCs

How I enabled async routing between datacenters.

31 Dec 20254 min read
From Validated Design to Enforced Architecture
Nutanix

From Validated Design to Enforced Architecture

Why Nutanix Infrastructure Manager appears late in the maturity curve.

28 Dec 20256 min read
I Hacked LIDL and IKEA so Merry Christmas
Christmas

I Hacked LIDL and IKEA so Merry Christmas

A Christmas story about curiosity, wooden trains, mixed ecosystems, and teaching the joy of hacking by example.

25 Dec 20252 min read
This New Prism Central 7.5 Feature Is Useful Only If You Run Windows
Nutanix

This New Prism Central 7.5 Feature Is Useful Only If You Run Windows

What Guest Customization Profiles actually do.

17 Dec 20253 min read
Nutanix Konnector Finally Makes Kubernetes Make Sense in Prism Central
Nutanix

Nutanix Konnector Finally Makes Kubernetes Make Sense in Prism Central

Why NK is not Karbon, not NKP, and exactly what Prism Central was missing.

15 Dec 20255 min read
Still Seeing Karbon in Prism Central?
Nutanix

Still Seeing Karbon in Prism Central?

Here’s how to clean up NKE leftovers after switching to NKP.

15 Dec 20254 min read
Why I Love Nutanix NC2 on OVHcloud
Nutanix

Why I Love Nutanix NC2 on OVHcloud

Adding clarity after the NC2 on Google Cloud article and illustrating how OVHcloud completes the picture.

12 Dec 20253 min read
What’s New in Nutanix 7.5
Nutanix

What’s New in Nutanix 7.5

A structured breakdown of the most important features in PC 7.5, AOS 7.5, and AHV 11.

9 Dec 20254 min read
Nutanix NC2 Arrives on Google Cloud
Nutanix

Nutanix NC2 Arrives on Google Cloud

How a Third Hyperscaler Changes Multicloud Design Forever.

9 Dec 20253 min read
How to Save Public Floating IPs on Nutanix: The Offroad Way
Nutanix

How to Save Public Floating IPs on Nutanix: The Offroad Way

How to consolidate public access inside a VPC by using an internal firewall as a public edge.

7 Dec 20255 min read
When Move Doesn’t Move: How to Migrate from Sangfor to Nutanix the Smart Way
Nutanix

When Move Doesn’t Move: How to Migrate from Sangfor to Nutanix the Smart Way

What to do when Nutanix Move does not support your hypervisor, the manual workflow that just works.

5 Dec 20255 min read
The End of SSH on Nutanix Is Coming. Are Your Automations Ready?
Nutanix

The End of SSH on Nutanix Is Coming. Are Your Automations Ready?

A deep look at Nutanix’s upcoming SSH deprecation and what teams must do to secure and modernize their automation workflows.

30 Nov 20254 min read
How to Save Public Floating IPs on Nutanix: The Native Way
Nutanix

How to Save Public Floating IPs on Nutanix: The Native Way

A clean Transit VPC design that centralizes egress, removes per VPC NAT and keeps multi VPC routing predictable.

23 Nov 20255 min read
The Hidden Gotcha in NKP 2.16: No NFS on Rocky Linux Workers
Nutanix

The Hidden Gotcha in NKP 2.16: No NFS on Rocky Linux Workers

While testing Nutanix AI 2.5 on NKP 2.16, I found that NFS fails on Rocky Linux CIS workers but works fine on Ubuntu CIS. Here’s my technical analysis.

12 Nov 20255 min read
You Don’t Need More Nodes, You Need Two NKP Instances
Nutanix

You Don’t Need More Nodes, You Need Two NKP Instances

A balanced approach to reduce Kubernetes resource consumption without sacrificing production reliability.

2 Nov 20257 min read
Replacing the Default OVHcloud Gateway with pfSense on Nutanix NC2
Nutanix

Replacing the Default OVHcloud Gateway with pfSense on Nutanix NC2

A complete guide to replacing the default OVHcloud gateway with a pfSense firewall on Nutanix NC2.

29 Oct 20257 min read
The Big Shift Behind Nutanix Partner Central
Nutanix

The Big Shift Behind Nutanix Partner Central

How the new unified platform signals a strategic evolution in partner collaboration and multicloud growth.

22 Oct 20252 min read
Stop the Workarounds: NKP 2.16 Brings Long-Awaited Fixes
Nutanix

Stop the Workarounds: NKP 2.16 Brings Long-Awaited Fixes

Kubernetes platforms evolve quickly, but not every release solves the daily frustrations of running clusters at scale. Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) 2.16 is

25 Sept 20253 min read
Nutanix Central On-Prem: The Next Chapter in Unified Cloud Management
Nutanix

Nutanix Central On-Prem: The Next Chapter in Unified Cloud Management

Hybrid cloud has always been about balance, balancing agility with control, scalability with governance, and innovation with compliance. With the release of Nut

22 Sept 20253 min read
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