devops
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home lab
Top 7 Home Lab Server Tools in 2023
Lab Gopher is a great tool to find home lab hardware
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DevOps
Top 25 DevOps Automation Tools in 2023
In this guide, we’ve compiled the top 25 DevOps automation tools in 2023 (plus 1) to help you enhance your workflow and streamline your software development processes. What DevOps automation tool are you using? Note the following popular DevOps automation…
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Automation
Apt Periodic Autoclean Interval with Unattended-Upgrades
If you have a number of Linux servers in your environment, whether these are in production environments or in the home lab, you want to keep your Linux servers up-to-date with security patches across the board. Manually logging in and…
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DevOps
Terraform prompt for variable input when creating a virtual machine
Terraform is a great infrastructure as code scripting language from Hashicorp. I use it day in and day out in the lab and in production environments to streamline the process of deploying infrastructure. In the lab environment, I have had…
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DevOps
JIRA Upgrade JIRA Core Self-managed Server
Most of you are no strangers to JIRA. It is arguably the most popular Agile project management solution adopted worldwide. Like most companies, Atlassian is pushing everyone to the cloud. The self-managed JIRA Server offering is deprecated and will no…
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Powershell
Create and Configure PacRequestorEnforcement Registry Key with PowerShell
As a follow-up to the news that Microsoft is rolling out a new Kerberos configuration change to remediate security vulnerability CVE-2021-42287. Starting with the rollout of the November 2021 security patches, Microsoft has introduced a new registry key that controls…
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DevOps
Terraform AWS Windows Instance Code
Most of the time, if you are like me, you use Terraform to configure Linux EC2 instances for provisioning in AWS. However, you may have the need for Terraform AWS Windows instance code. In this simple walkthrough, I will show…
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home lab
VMware Home Lab and Learning Goals 2022
As we are beginning to wrap up the 2021 year, like me, you may be starting to think about the year ahead and what technologies and other skills you would like to develop. What is on your plate for the…
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VMware Automation
VMware Self Service Provisioning Portal with vRealize Automation
Automation is the name of the game today with organizations needing to streamline operations and ensure the proper governance controls are in place across the board. Using vRealize Automation, VMware Identity Manager, and Active Directory, you can create a VMware…
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Windows 11
Deploy Windows 11 with MDT Download
In the lab environment, I have been playing around with Windows 11 deployments and have started updating a few methods I use in the lab to deploy images of Windows 11. These tools include Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT). As a…
