I’m a bit late on posting this. But, better late than never. I’ve been renewed again as a VMware vExpert for 2025. This is my seventh consecutive year since I first applied. Woohoo!!

If you haven’t met me, then you should know the image for this post is not how I look at all. That guy is way better looking than me. I also don’t have anywhere near that amount of hair. I decided to create a generic IT guy holding a placard claiming to be a 7-time vExpert. I used the AI image site, NightCafe. It has a paid tier for creating images, but I use the free tier. Check it out sometime.

As part of my job, I regularly demonstrate Pure Storage features and how VMware solutions integrate seamlessly with our storage platform. Before a demo, I usually will confirm the software I intend to use is in good working order, but this isn’t always the case. The demo lab is used by many of my colleagues. This means that during their use of the lab something could have stopped working or is in a wonky state. So, Murphy’s Law could rear its ugly head at the most inconvenient time if I cannot confirm all is well beforehand.

For those of you who know me and those of you who don’t, it won’t come as a surprise that I’m not a developer and I will never claim to be one. So, when I decided I wanted to learn how to contribute to a project on GitHub what better way to do this than to write a blog post about it.