automation
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Powershell
PowerShell IP Geolocation based on State
I have been revisiting a few things in the lab environment, including monitoring and other alerting that I have had set for a while. I had an outside box that even with the other security measures in place, I wanted…
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Windows Server 2022
Automated Windows Server 2022 Packer Build
As Windows Server 2022 Preview is now officially released, I wanted to get my automated build of the Preview release in the home lab and ready to go for testing the newest Windows Server operating system. With this being said,…
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Automation
Terraform vSphere tutorial: Linux Virtual Machine Clone
Terraform is a great infrastructure as code (IaC) platform that allows easily spinning up and customizing infrastructure. The great thing is you can use it for many different environments, not just VMware vSphere. However, for this Terraform vSphere tutorial, I…
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Automation
Ansible Hashicorp Vault Storing vCenter Password
Recently I had detailed how to Install Hashicorp Vault on Ubuntu 20.04. If you followed along that post, you will see how easy it is to get a working installation of Hashicorp Vault up and running on your Ubuntu 20.04…
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Automation
How To Install Hashicorp Vault on Ubuntu 20.04
Managing and maintaining secrets in an environment can be challenging. This is especially when using secrets in configuration files, variable files, and other information that can be dangerous to house in plain-text in a flat-file. Hashicorp Vault is a solution…
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Software
Zoom Automatic Join Meeting How To
With the tremendously popular use of Zoom as a unified communications platform, many organizations are using it to carry on communication across the board during the global pandemic with COVID-19. This includes not only businesses but non-profits, worship services, and…
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DevOps
Ansible Manage Windows Servers Examples Guide
Managing your Windows Servers from the GUI in mass is not fun or efficient. While the GUI has its place for one-off and ad-hoc configuration, managing your Windows servers in an automated way is a much better option than using…
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home lab
Supermicro VMware Home Lab Automatic Power On and Power Off
Running a VMware vSphere home lab is a great way to learn and grow as a virtualization professional. I have a home lab that I have built up over the past few years with Supermicro server hardware. The Supermicro servers…
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Automation
VMware vRealize Orchestrator 8.1 New Features and Installation
One of the new releases coming from VMware just in the last few weeks is VMware vRealize Orchestrator 8.1. VMware vRealize Orchestrator 8.1 brings some really great new features to the table that go hand-in-hand with some of the new…
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Automation
Install GitLab Ubuntu 18.04 and UTF-8 Error
One of the projects that I have been wanting to accomplish in the home lab was getting my own local Git server in the environment. I have wanted for some time to get a GitLab server stood up in the…
