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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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...
Quick Fix: Deploying Multiple Ubuntu 18.04 VMs From Template with DHCP Results Same in IP Allocation
In the continuing work I've been doing with Terraform, i've come across a number of gotchyas when working with VM Templates and deploying them on mass. The n...
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...
Quick Fix - OS Not Found Deploying Windows Template with Terraform
During the first plan execution of a new VM based on a Windows Server Core VM Template, my Terraform plan timed out on Guest Customizations. The same plan ha...
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...
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...
Automating the Creation of AWS VPC and Subnets for VMware Cloud on AWS
Yesterday I wrote about how to deploy a Single Host SDDC through the VMware Cloud on AWS web console. I mentioned some pre-requisites that where required in ...
Using Terraform to Deploy and Configure a Ready to use Backup Repo into an AWS VPC
A month of so ago I wrote a post on deploying Veeam Powered Network into an AWS VPC as a way to extend the VPC network to a remote site to leverage a Veeam L...
Public Cloud and Infrastructure as Code...The Good and the Bad all in One Day!
I'm ok admitting that I am still learning as I progress through my career and I'm ok to admit when things go wrong. Learning from mistakes is a crucial part ...