Raspberry Pi

Introduction In this post we will be discussing an approach to have your own CICD system on premise. We will install Gitlab server onto our VMWare cluster running on ESXi.

Introduction In this post I installed ESXi onto a Raspberry Pi 4 device with 8GB of RAM. Then I configured manually some Ubuntu servers and installed VMWare tools on them (see this post).

Introduction In this post, I showed how to go about installing ESXi onto a Raspberry Pi 4 device. As I was launching multiple Ubuntu virtual servers, I found issues with installing VMWare tools onto them.

Introduction On October 7th, VMware released a fling (*) that allows us to run ESXi on a Raspberry Pi. This immediately caught my attention as I had been waiting for this for quite a while.