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…
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VMware Event Broker Appliance VEBA tutorial: How to create an email notification
Among the really cool projects I have stood up in the lab as of recently is the VMware Event Broker Appliance (VEBA). If you have not heard about VEBA and…
Find Guest OS Type ID using PowerCLI
Have you needed to find the Guest OS type IDs that are used in Terraform or other automation in provisioning VMware vSphere virtual machines? There is a really easy way…
Packer Build Ubuntu 21.04 for VMware vSphere
If you aren’t already using Hashicorp Packer for automating builds of the various operating systems you use in your environment, you are missing out. Packer is a great tool that…
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…
Terraform 0.15 Released New Features
Terraform is arguably one of the most popular DevOps tools across a wide range of platforms. It continues to add features and functionality for DevOps practitioners, engineers, and others working…
Automated Packer VMware vSphere templates with CI/CD Pipeline Build
Lately, I have been getting more into automation, CI/CD pipelines, and other technologies. I knew it was time with the home lab to delve off into using CI/CD pipelines to…
Create an EC2 Instance Using Terraform
Public cloud infrastructure provides powerful capabilities, features, and functionality for today’s enterprise as it allows businesses to access the hyperscale infrastructure of today’s cloud service providers. They can build their…
Using Terraform Vault Provider with VMware vSphere
If you are getting into infrastructure as code (IaC), no doubt you have at least experimented with Hashicorp Terraform. Terraform is a very human-readable language that allows easily provisioning infrastructure…
Automate VMware Template Patching for Windows
The more operational tasks that can be automated, the more time vSphere administrators can accomplish other objectives—one of the tasks that can take time out of a busy schedule VMware…