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Hyper-V
Hyper-V Cluster iSCSI Storage Using StarWind Free SAN & NAS
Creating a Hyper-V Cluster iSCSI storage is one of the ways you can have traditional shared storage for a Hyper-V cluster in your environment. I want to introduce you to a free solution that you can use for your Hyper-V…
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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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Kubernetes
Install Longhorn Rancher for Kubernetes Block Storage
Storage and specifically persistent storage has been a challenge with Kubernetes and containerized workloads. Rancher Longhorn is a solution that helps to solve the problem of Kubernetes persistent storage and allows organizations to install and configure Kubernetes storage easily and…
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Windows Server 2022
Windows 2022 WSL2 support with new Windows Update KB5014021
Windows Subsystem for Linux has long been a feature that has been enjoyed on the Windows desktop space and proven to be a very powerful tool in the hands of developers and many others who have a need for Linux…
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Kubernetes
Rancher Node Template VMware ESXi – Ubuntu Cloud Image
In one of the Youtube videos I had created some time ago, one of the questions that keep coming up is how you create the Rancher Node Template VMware configuration. Specifically, many run into challenges with the template portion of…
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VMware
ESXi Auto Deploy add Driver to ESXi ISO Custom Image
One of the things you may find the need for from time to time is customizing an ESXi ISO image to add drivers for detecting storage, network adapters, and other components. This is especially true if you are running a…
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Kubernetes
Traefik Ingress Example YAML and setup in K3s
I have been playing around lately in my DevOps learning adventures with Traefik. Traefik is a great ingress controller that you will find used just about everywhere in Kubernetes deployments. However, it can be a bit challenging to deploy. There…
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VMware
VMware vCenter Server 7.0 Update 3e Update New Features
A few days ago, VMware released VMware vCenter Server 7.0 Update 3e. It is both an enhancement and fix release and contains a few enhancements and fixes. What are the new features found in VMware vCenter Server 7.0 Update 3e?…
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Kubernetes
K3s Traefik Dashboard Enable and Configuration
As organizations start to build modern applications and transition from traditional monolithic apps to microservices, many are using containerized workloads running on top of Kubernetes. However, Kubernetes is not a technology for the faint of heart. It can present challenges…
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Linux
Create a Linux Service Monitoring Script
You may have mission-critical workloads running on Linux Server such as Nginx that you want to monitor to ensure the service is healthy. Using a Bash script, we can easily create a piece of script code that can monitor a…
