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…
Category: DevOps
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…