Unified Access Gateway is a swiss knife in your DMZ, which can help you securely publish your internal resources and data to any device no matter where is the device located. UAG plays a crucial role in VMware’s Zero Trust security model as it can block unauthorized sessions in DMZ before even reaching your internal networks.
Unified Access Gateway is a hardened Linux virtual appliance and can be deployed in two general ways:
- Using vSphere Client GUI – only when deploying to vSphere 🙂
- Using PowerShell script – when deploying to vSphere or any other place (Azure, AWS…). This method will be covered in this blog post.
The main benefits of PowerShell deployment are, that is can be (partially) automated, it’s reusable, reliable, simple and quick.