DevOps
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Automate Letsencrypt Certificate Renewal with PowerShell
SSL certificates, especially in the home lab, can be difficult to manage and maintain if you have even a handful of VMs to eliminate certificate errors. Letsencrypt has been arguably the best development in the SSL space. It allows having…
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Zerologon CVE-2020-1472 Vulnerability Automated Patching
Many security and IT teams are scrambling to get systems patched after the discovery of the “Zerologon”. It provides the holy grail of vulnerabilities to an attacker. An attacker can essentially become a Domain Admin with one click. And what…
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Ansible Manage Windows Servers Examples Guide
Managing your Windows Servers from the GUI in mass is not fun or efficient. While the GUI has its place for one-off and ad-hoc configuration, managing your Windows servers in an automated way is a much better option than using…
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Installing Hashicorp Vault Password Management in Ubuntu 18.04
One of the things that I have been wanting to do for quite some time now is play around with Hashicorp Vault in the lab. In case you haven’t heard (which is doubtful), Hashicorp Vault allows you to have a…
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Ansible Windows Join Domain and Rejoin Playbooks
Automating Windows with Ansible modules is a great way to become more effective, productive, and efficient as a Windows administrator. Ansible provides a number of modules that can allow you to interact with your Windows machines either at the guest…
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VMware vRealize Orchestrator Use Cases
Are you wanting to get into automation and have a way to easily use automated processes in your VMware vSphere environment? You most likely have access to a tool that could do all of the above in your environment for…
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VMware vRealize Orchestrator 8.1 New Features and Installation
One of the new releases coming from VMware just in the last few weeks is VMware vRealize Orchestrator 8.1. VMware vRealize Orchestrator 8.1 brings some really great new features to the table that go hand-in-hand with some of the new…
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Install GitLab Ubuntu 18.04 and UTF-8 Error
One of the projects that I have been wanting to accomplish in the home lab was getting my own local Git server in the environment. I have wanted for some time to get a GitLab server stood up in the…
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vRealize Orchestrator 8.0 Download Install and Configuration
Performing all the tasks associated with daily IT administration today in a manual way can be time consuming, tedious, and down right impossible. Automation is king when it comes to getting things done in a timely and efficient manner. VMware…
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Deploy Windows Updates with PDQ Deploy
If you are like me, keeping your hosts updated can be one of the most cumbersome and tedious tasks that you have to carry out in your environment. However, as has recently been shown with numerous security scares already to…
