Automation
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Install Terraform DevOps Beginners Guide
Terraform is a DevOps tool that everyone needs to know since it is one of the most popular ones in use today with organizations. Let’s see how to install it and get up and running so you can start getting…
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PowerShell Get Registry Value
The Windows Registry and registry editor have long been tools Windows admins have used to resolve issues, apply settings, etc. However, PowerShell makes automating registry changes or programmatically getting registry keys and their values very easy. PowerShell can interact with…
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Enter-PSsession: Run PowerShell Remote Commands
Enter-PSsession is an important PowerShell cmdlet that allows admins to create connections to remote computers or servers and is a great way to administer these remotely. Let’s get a good overview of Enter-PSsession and see how you can use it.…
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PSWindowsupdate: Automated Windows Updates with PowerShell
Let’s look at PSWindowsupdate automated Windows Updates with PowerShell and see how it can come to the rescue for keeping your Windows environment up-to-date. Table of contentsWhat is PSWindowsUpdate?Installing the PSWindowsUpdate ModuleImporting the PSWindowsUpdate ModuleChecking for Available UpdatesDownloading Windows UpdatesInstalling…
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Ansible Software Patching for Beginners
Ansible is a well-known configuration management solution that can be used for automating many different things. One thing you can do very well with Ansible is using it for updates and software patching. Let’s see how. Table of contentsSetting up…
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Ansible Docker Container Management Playbooks
Ansible can be used to manage your Docker container environment and other infrastructure. Let’s see how that can be done. Table of contentsWhat is Docker?What is Ansible?Playbooks to install packagesDocker build with AnsibleDocker Installation TasksAdding Docker Image to playbooksRunning Ansible…
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Choosing the Best VMware Automation Tools
Providing streamlined and consistent management across the virtual estate is extremely important when using enterprise virtualization servers to run virtual machines in the enterprise data center. Managing a vSphere environment can require performing many different management tasks that are tedious…
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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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Convert Packer Variables JSON to HCL2 for automated vSphere templates
One of the tasks I have been working on lately is getting my Packer vSphere build templates converted over from JSON to the new preferred HCL2 language as of Packer 1.7.2. This is the preferred language to write your Packer…
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Packer Build Ubuntu 22.04 for VMware vSphere
Yesterday, Ubuntu released the latest in the line of LTS versions of Ubuntu Server and Workstation. Ubuntu 22.04 is a great release featuring many new features and enhancements to the Ubuntu family of operating systems. If you are like me,…
