Field notes from a platform engineer — Cloud Foundry, Tanzu, BOSH, GenAI tiles, GPU homelabs. https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/ en-us Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT nick@kuhn-labs.com (Nick Kuhn) nick@kuhn-labs.com (Nick Kuhn) https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/images/brand/kuhn-labs-mark-128.png https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/ https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/build-internal-ai-tools-with-claude-agent-sdk-on-tanzu.html https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/build-internal-ai-tools-with-claude-agent-sdk-on-tanzu.html Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Wrap the Claude Agent SDK in a small Cloud Foundry service and call it from your apps and pipelines — a code reviewer, an incident triager, a chat UI — with the worker running near your internal systems. Tanzu nick@kuhn-labs.com (Nick Kuhn) https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/drive-a-claude-runner-from-your-phone-on-tanzu.html https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/drive-a-claude-runner-from-your-phone-on-tanzu.html Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Run Claude remote-control workers on Tanzu Platform instead of your laptop, then drive them from Claude mobile or claude.ai with platform egress, logs, and scale. Tanzu nick@kuhn-labs.com (Nick Kuhn) https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/running-claude-agents-on-tanzu-platform.html https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/running-claude-agents-on-tanzu-platform.html Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The model call can stay with Anthropic, Bedrock, or Vertex. The agent harness is the part you get to place. Here's why Tanzu Platform is a natural runtime for Claude agents. Tanzu nick@kuhn-labs.com (Nick Kuhn) https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/federate-mcp-servers-behind-one-gateway-on-tanzu.html https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/federate-mcp-servers-behind-one-gateway-on-tanzu.html Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Stand up the Tanzu Platform 10.4 MCP gateway, federate two MCP servers behind it, and bind each gateway path to your AI agent as a tagged MCP service. Tanzu nick@kuhn-labs.com (Nick Kuhn) https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/reuse-your-tanzu-mcp-gateway-from-cursor-claude-code-goose.html https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/reuse-your-tanzu-mcp-gateway-from-cursor-claude-code-goose.html Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Use the Tanzu MCP gateway as a developer landing zone for Cursor, Claude Code, Goose, and Codex, with platform-auth pass-through for web search and per-user GitHub OAuth. Tanzu nick@kuhn-labs.com (Nick Kuhn) https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/ship-an-ai-agent-on-tanzu-with-agents-md-and-cf-push.html https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/ship-an-ai-agent-on-tanzu-with-agents-md-and-cf-push.html Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Build a zero-code research assistant on Tanzu Platform 10.4 with AGENTS.md, the agent buildpack, AI Services, and cf push. Tanzu nick@kuhn-labs.com (Nick Kuhn) https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/deploying-gemma-4-31b-on-tanzu-ai-services.html https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/deploying-gemma-4-31b-on-tanzu-ai-services.html Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A complete recipe for adding Gemma 4 31B (multimodal) as a vLLM model on the Tanzu AI Services tile — fields, the single-GPU Blackwell setup, and the performance numbers you'll see. Tanzu nick@kuhn-labs.com (Nick Kuhn) https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/deploying-gpt-oss-120b-on-tanzu-ai-services.html https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/deploying-gpt-oss-120b-on-tanzu-ai-services.html Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A complete recipe for adding GPT-OSS-120B as a vLLM model on the Tanzu AI Services tile — fields, MoE tunings, and the performance numbers you'll see on a 4× RTX 3090 worker. Tanzu nick@kuhn-labs.com (Nick Kuhn) https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/deploying-qwen3-5-27b-on-tanzu-ai-services.html https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/deploying-qwen3-5-27b-on-tanzu-ai-services.html Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A complete recipe for adding Qwen3.5-27B as a vLLM model on the Tanzu AI Services tile — fields, chat template, tunings, and the performance numbers you'll see. Tanzu nick@kuhn-labs.com (Nick Kuhn) https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/enabling-block-storage-on-tanzu-platform.html https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/enabling-block-storage-on-tanzu-platform.html Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT A platform-engineer's recipe for enabling block storage on Tanzu Platform 10.4 with the Elastic Application Runtime tile — unlocking stateful workloads that need persistent disk and were previously hard to land on the platform. Tanzu nick@kuhn-labs.com (Nick Kuhn) https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/guide-for-tas-engineers-migrating-from-tanzunet-to-bsp.html https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/guide-for-tas-engineers-migrating-from-tanzunet-to-bsp.html Fri, 21 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT A comprehensive guide for TAS engineers migrating from TanzuNet to Broadcom's Customer Support Portal (BSP). Tanzu nick@kuhn-labs.com (Nick Kuhn) https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/homelab-to-hackathon-genai-for-tas-in-a-box.html https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/homelab-to-hackathon-genai-for-tas-in-a-box.html Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT Building a portable 8-liter homelab for the VMware Explore Barcelona Hackathon featuring GenAI for TAS. Homelab nick@kuhn-labs.com (Nick Kuhn) https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/vmware-explore-barcelona-2023-tas-guide.html https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/vmware-explore-barcelona-2023-tas-guide.html Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT A curated guide for TAS-focused sessions at VMware Explore Barcelona 2023. Tanzu nick@kuhn-labs.com (Nick Kuhn) https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/tas-wins-vmware-explore-2023-las-vegas-hackathon.html https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/tas-wins-vmware-explore-2023-las-vegas-hackathon.html Wed, 23 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT Team TAS wins first place at VMware Explore 2023 Las Vegas Hackathon with GenAI for Tanzu Application Service. Tanzu nick@kuhn-labs.com (Nick Kuhn) https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/hp-z440-homelab-power-consumption-update.html https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/hp-z440-homelab-power-consumption-update.html Thu, 27 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT Analysis of homelab power consumption using smart plugs, revealing daily usage and annual costs. Homelab nick@kuhn-labs.com (Nick Kuhn) https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/vmware-explore-2023-las-vegas-tas-guide.html https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/vmware-explore-2023-las-vegas-tas-guide.html Wed, 26 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT Curated recommendations for TAS-related sessions at VMware Explore 2023 Las Vegas. Tanzu nick@kuhn-labs.com (Nick Kuhn) https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/my-first-homelab-2023-hp-z440-edition.html https://blog.kuhn-labs.com/posts/my-first-homelab-2023-hp-z440-edition.html Fri, 19 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT Comprehensive documentation of building a 7-host homelab using HP Z440 workstations with vSAN and 10 GbE networking. 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