DevOps
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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…
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Configure Ansible Windows Server Kerberos authentication in Ubuntu
Managing Windows Servers with Ansible is a powerful way to perform configuration management and to remediate configuration skew in a server environment. As we have already explored basic Windows Server automation with Ansible and how to bootstrap Windows Server configuration…
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Bootstrap Windows Server Configuration with Ansible Playbooks
In our previous Ansible post covering basic Windows Server automation with Ansible, we looked at how to get an ansible server up and running as well as how to get the Ansible server connected to a Windows Server that we…
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Basic Windows Server Automation with Ansible
We have already looked at installing Ansible Tower for GUI administration of Ansible which we will go back to. I want to back up a little bit and cover working with Ansible from the command line, showing how easy it…
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Install and Configure Ansible Tower in Ubuntu Server
One of the goals that I have set for 2018 is learning more automation skills and employing these both in the home lab as well as with employers. The days of pointing and clicking to get things done are no…
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Automating a Home Lab Windows Server with Chef
In a previous post, Basic Chef Workstation and Server Installation and configuration, we took a look at how to get up and running in a basic sense with a working Chef server as well as a management workstation running the…
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Basic Chef Workstation and Server Installation and configuration
Automation is perhaps the most exciting and most desirable skill in today’s work of infrastructure operations. Today “infrastructure as code” is a buzzword you here everywhere. If you haven’t started working on your automation skills, now is the time to…
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Best Rest API Client Download
These days APIs are all the rage when it comes to interacting with devices, infrastructure, software, etc. Most vendors and software are providing APIs that allow you to interact, configure, and query software and hardware. This is powerful when it…
