DevOps
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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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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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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,…
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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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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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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 you are looking to take your vCenter notifications and automation…
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Install Jenkins on Ubuntu 21.04 with Self-signed SSL certificate
There are many great platforms out there that provide automation server capabilities, including making use of CI/CD pipelines. Many familiar names include Git, GitLab, BitBucket, and others. However, a platform that is well known in the circles of DevOps is…
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Linux DevOps tools: Building Linux Infrastructure as Code Workstation
I have been doing quite a bit of DevOps work the past few months and have found myself working with Linux tools more and more. With this being said, I have built up a Linux DevOps workstation to use as…
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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 to find the Guest OS ID descriptions that are used…
