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title: Runecast - From vSphere KBs to multi-cloud compliance
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date: 2022-10-07T14:37:51.966Z
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Back at the beginning of my journey through infrastructure in IT, I came across Runecast I think from Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping's blog). It must have been around 2015 or 2016 when I was in Scotland and back then the product was somewhat revolutionary within the VMware space as it would scan your environment and tell you what you were doing wrong in terms of best practices by comparing your configuration against official VMware KBs. I used it a bit and loved it instantly, it was amazing because it was easy to use (not like vRops), there was a free tier and you would get tons of valuable insight into your infrastructure with tips on how to fix the flaws it detected. The various jobs I had over the years sent me in a direction where I didn't get to use Runecast and didn't really follow its evolution.

Fast forward to 2022, my career shifted towards Kubernetes (with a VMware flavor) in the past year and I was lucky enough to attend KubeCon in Valencia thanks to my employer [Giant Swarm](https://www.giantswarm.io/). While I was roaming the sponsor booths and chatting with people from various companies, I was surprised to bump into Runecast and got a flashback from my time in Scotland managing a 900 VMs infrastructure. I had a very nice chat with the folks at the booth and learned about the evolution of the product and how it now works with Kubernetes. Over the years the product gained popularity but virtualization hasn't really been the cool kid on the block for a while now as you might know. In order to address customers' problematics and stay current with trends, Runecast evolved organically towards becoming a security and compliance platform spanning a great deal of infrastructure providers with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, VMware, Windows and Linux. So I decided to get in touch with them and offered to talk about it on the blog as I really liked the product back then and I'd like to know more about what it's become.
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title: Runecast - From vSphere KBs to multi-cloud compliance
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date: 2022-10-07T14:17:51.966Z
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Back at the beginning of my journey through infrastructure in IT, I came across Runecast I think from Yellow Bricks (Duncan Epping's blog). It must have been around 2015 or 2016 when I was in Scotland and back then the product was somewhat revolutionary within the VMware space as it would scan your environment and tell you what you were doing wrong in terms of best practices by comparing your configuration against official VMware KBs. I used it a bit and loved it instantly, it was amazing because it was easy to use (not like vRops), there was a free tier and you would get tons of valuable insight into your infrastructure with tips on how to fix the flaws it detected. The various jobs I had over the years sent me in a direction where I didn't get to use Runecast and didn't really follow its evolution.

Fast forward to 2022, my career shifted towards Kubernetes (with a VMware flavor) in the past year and I was lucky enough to attend KubeCon in Valencia thanks to my employer [Giant Swarm](https://www.giantswarm.io/). While I was roaming the sponsor booths and chatting with people from various companies, I was surprised to bump into Runecast and got a flashback from my time in Scotland managing a 900 VMs infrastructure. I had a very nice chat with the folks at the booth and learned about the evolution of the product and how it now works with Kubernetes. Over the years the product gained popularity but virtualization hasn't really been the cool kid on the block for a while now as you might know. In order to address customers' problematics and stay current with trends, Runecast evolved organically towards becoming a security and compliance platform spanning a great deal of infrastructure providers with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, VMware, Windows and Linux. So I decided to get in touch with them and offered to talk about it on the blog as I really liked the product back then and I'd like to know more about what it's become.

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