DevOps
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Deploy Windows Updates with PDQ Deploy
If you are like me, keeping your hosts updated can be one of the most cumbersome and tedious tasks that you have to carry out in your environment. However, as has recently been shown with numerous security scares already to…
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Terraform for Azure Tutorial
Modernizing the way IT operations is able to provision, manage, and provide the needed resources for development necessitates the need to automate processes. This is especially true in cloud environments like Microsoft Azure. Terraform is gaining wide adoption as the…
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Automate Windows Server 2019 Core Installation and Deployment
As detailed in the previous post yesterday, Windows Server 2019 Core edition is gaining momentum among customers as the go to Windows edition for installation in their environments. Due to great new tools and extensions such as Windows Admin Center…
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Use Ansible AWX to Automate Linux Updates and Patches
Let’s face it, keeping your VMs and environments updated is a necessary evil that we all realize we need to do for security, stability, and enhancements. Especially from a security perspective, updates are essential. We often hear focus on Windows…
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Automated Windows 10 Installation with AutoUnattend and Packer
Not too long ago, I covered in a post called Create Unattend Answer File for Windows Server 2019 Automated Packer Installation. In carrying this further with continued automation of Windows machines for lab environments, I wanted to put together a…
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Use Ansible to Update OUI tables in Arpwatch
As most of you are aware, I have written a few posts about Arpwatch and the great value it provides in a network for visibility. It can help to uncover not only network issues that may exist, but also potential…
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Getting Started with Packer and VMware vSphere
Automation is the key to success in today’s fast paced world of hybrid infrastructure. Gone are the days of spending hours or days on build processes and infrastructure engineers holding up any part of the development pipeline. Today’s world of…
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Sysprep and VMware Guest Customization with Terraform
Continuing into my own automation learning objectives this year, I am diving a bit deeper down the Terraform rabbit hole and want to share a few more things learned over the past few weeks with this automation tool. Terraform is…
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Basic Terraform Installation and VMware vSphere Automation
One of the great tools in automation and DevOps today is Hashicorp’s Terraform. Terraform is a great way to provide powerful automation in most any environment spanning on-premise infrastructure to public cloud environments. One of the many advantages of utilizing…
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Manage and Configure Windows Servers with Ansible Tower
Ansible Tower provides a really nice GUI interface to managing an Ansible deployment. Additionally, it provides the ability to create job templates, scheduling, and notifications which definitely add to the power of Ansible Tower in configuration management. Ansible Tower is…
