Infrastructure as Code SaaS Based Automation with env0
Those reading my blog and social feeds over the last few years know how much of a fan of automation and infrastructure as code I am. I never profess or claim...
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Terraform
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HashiConf Lightning Talk - Enhancing Mundane Deployments with Terraform
HashiConf took place a couple of weeks ago now, and during the event I presented a community based Lightning Talk live. The session is based on using Infrast...
HashiConf Digital - Top Session Picks and Lightning Talks
HashiConf Digital gets underway shortly and will offer two days of product reveals, technical sessions and Lightning Talks attracting a huge number of attend...
HashiConf Digital - Top Session Picks
HashiConf Digital gets underway shortly and will offer three days of technical sessions and workshops attracting an estimated 6000 attendees from around the ...
Never Deploy Backup Proxies Manually Again With Infrastructure as Code!
My recent obsession with automation and Infrastructure as Code in general has resulted in a lot of efficiencies in my day to day work life. Where I used to d...
Quick Post - Executing PowerShell through Guest Customizations with Terraform
Bootstrapping Windows during automated deployments is one of the more frustrating aspects of working with templates that are being deployed by Infrastructure...
Quick Fix - Terraform Linux Remote-Exec Provisioner Errors without Exit Status
When deploying and configuring Linux as part of my Terraform plans, I have generally used a combination of script based or in-line Remote-Exec declarations t...
Quick Post: Using Terraform to Deploy an Ansible Control Node on vSphere
In the continuing spirit of Terraforming all things, when I started to look into Ansible I wanted a way to have the base Control Node installed in a repeatab...
Using Variable Maps to Dynamically Deploy vSphere VMs with Terraform
I've been working on a project over the last couple of weeks that has enabled me to sharpen my Terraform skills. There is nothing better than learning by doi...
Assigning vSphere Tags with Terraform for Policy Based Backups
vSphere Tags are used to add attributes to VMs so that they can be used to help categorise VMs for further filtering or discovery. vSphere Tags have a number...
Deploying a Kubernetes Sandbox on VMware with Terraform
Terraform from HashiCorp has been a revelation for me since I started using it in anger last year to deploy VeeamPN into AWS . From there it has allowed me t...
The Separation of Dev and Ops is Upon Us!
Apart from the K word, there was one other enduring message that I think a lot of people took home from VMworld 2019 . That is, that Dev and Ops should be co...
Orchestration of NSX by Terraform for Cloud Connect Replication with vCloud Director
That is probably the longest title i've ever had on this blog, however I wanted to highlight everything that is contained in this solution. Everything above ...
Infrastructure as Code vs RESTful APIs ... A Working Example with Terraform and vCloud Director
Last week I wrote an opinion piece on Infrastructure as Code vs RESTful APIs . In a nutshell, I talked about how leveraging IaC instead of trying to code aga...
Infrastructure as Code vs RESTful APIs ...Terraform and Everything in Between!
While I was a little late to the game in understanding the power of Infrastructure as Code, I've spent a lot of the last twelve months working with Terraform...
Quick Fix: Terraform Plan Fails on Guest Customizations and VMware Tools
Last week I was looking to add the deployment of a local CentOS virtual machine to the Deploy Veeam SDDC Toolkit project so that it included the option to de...