How to setup a virtual machine or virtual appliance in an IBM Cloud virtual private cloud (vpc) environment on a virtual server instance (vsi)? (nested Hypervisor)

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As fas as I notice from the official IBM Cloud documentation “VPC responsibilities“, there is no official support for a nested Hypervisor listed in the official IBM Cloud documentation (Date 14.09.2021). IBM provides in the official IBM Cloud documentation: How to manually enable nested virtualization on a virtual server instance?, but you can do this on your own risk, as far as I understand for now. For me the nested Hypervisor worked for several times, but it’s not official supported.


This is a cheat sheet about, how to setup a virtual machine or virtual appliance in an IBM Cloud virtual private cloud (vpc) on a virtual server instance (vsi) with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 minimal install (RHEL8) as host operating system and a Ubuntu Linux operating system for the virtual machine or virtual appliance. I reuse different blog posts and references to documentations on IBM Cloud or Red Hat and I use the information from an exchange with Stefan Trimborn and Marc Haecker. (Thanks and greetings Stefan and Marc ;-))

This blog post covers the setup until the network configuration for the virtual machine (vm) or virtual appliance (va) to access for example a web application from the internet, which runs in the vm or va.

The image below shows a simplified diagram of the setup on IBM Cloud:

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Use of “Quarkus Security OpenID Connect Multi Tenancy” in an own small example

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That blog post is about the usage of the “Quarkus Security OpenID Connect Multi Tenancy” implementation in an own small example, how to extract a tenant and reconfigure OIDC configuration for Keycloak.

This blog post is structured as followed:

  • Objectives
  • Use case definition
  • Architecture
  • Multi tenancy realization
  • Technologies
  • Implementation
  • Summary

You can find the code in the under construction GitHub project.

Basics understanding: “… A tenant is a group of users who share a common access with specific privileges to the software instance. …” Wikipedia

Keep in mind there is no common single definition what exactly multi tenancy is in detail. One definition you can find in Wikipedia or one in the IBM learn hub, and many more exist.

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Map an existing user to a role in a Keycloak realm using CURL

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In this blog post I want briefly show, how I implemented the mapping of a role to a user in Keycloak with CURL in a bash script.

The reason why I came across that topic, it was because I noticed that it wasn’t possible to upload a new user including the role information to the current realm.

I found that helpful stackoverflow entry (Keycloak – using admin API to add client role to user), but this stackoverflow entry didn’t contain the information: How to configure it for a pure realm role? At the end I found the related REST API documentation of Keycloak to extract the information.

Here are the major three steps I did.

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How to simply examine a JSON response from a Cloudant search in Java

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This is a short cheat sheet about, how to simply examine a JSON response from a Cloudant search in Java. I found different examples, but these examples were (more or less) older examples, where I missed some pieces and at the end for me the Java EE documentation was the best resource to realize it.

The JSON I wanted to examine, was a JSON with a nested JSON array and that array also contains a nested JSON.

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Create a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Virtual Server Instance (VSI) on IBM Cloud with Terraform

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This is a “simple” cheat sheet, how to create a single virtual server instance (VSI) in the virtual private cloud (VPC) infrastructure on IBM Cloud using Terraform.

“Terraform is to write infrastructure as code using declarative configuration files. HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) allows for concise descriptions of resources using blocks, arguments, and expressions.” resource Terraform

There is an awesome documentation on IBM Cloud to do this:

That blog post reuses a lot of the content in the IBM Cloud documentation. You need to install Terraform and and clone the example GitHub project as your example terraform project folder.

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10 Hours of Live Recordings, which are built on Experience, about Application Security

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It’s awesome we just created 10 hours of live recordings, which are built on experience, about application security. That learning journey was made by the IBM Developer Hybrid Cloud Build Team from IBM and I am a part of that team. We put together great content for you. By the way, I was responsible for the content ;-). I also have been the moderator for most of the sessions and I also gave sessions by myself. The learning journey is called #ApplicationSecurityLearningJourney.

So just take something to drink and grep some snacks and then enjoy all of the knowledge or just select your point of interest.

Here are the links to the various topics and related recordings on Crowdcast.io.

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How to create a single virtual server instance (VSI) in a virtual private cloud (VPC) infrastructure on IBM Cloud

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This is a “simple” cheat sheet, how to create a single virtual server instance (VSI) in the virtual private cloud (VPC) infrastructure on IBM Cloud.

The blog post has four major sections:

  1. Example architecture
  2. Setup of a VPC network
  3. Setup and configure the virtual server instance inside the VPC network
  4. Access the virtual server instance from a local machine

For more information, please visit the VPC IBM Cloud documentation.

Keep in mind: The objective is not to show all awesome additional capabilities the virtual private cloud on IBM Cloud has. The objective is just to provide a simple cheat sheet to create one simple virtual server instance.

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