VMware Workstation - Enter Serial Number From Linux CLI
Well, this was a fun exercise. While building out some VMs to execute Packer image builds for vSphere, I installed VMware Workstation via Ansible and forgot to add the serial number as part of the...
View ArticleNested ESXi Templates
Over the past week I have been working on a streamlined process to deploy nested ESXi 6.7 via automation tooling. Going through this I came across an issue with all nested ESXi hosts obtaining the same...
View ArticleAnsible Blocks With Conditionals
Ansible Blocks With ConditionalsBackgroundRecently I had an interesting issue when using Ansible Blocks in a playbook which was skipping tasks within the block itself. I had no idea that this was to be...
View ArticleCFD6 VMware API Questions
CFD6 VMware API QuestionsWhile, attending Cloud Field Day 6 in Silicon Valley as a delegate for Tech Field Day, Dell and VMware gave us their pitch on VMware Cloud Foundation.To be clear, I had zero...
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CFD6 - Hashicorp
Recently while attending Cloud Field Day 6, one of the companies presenting just so happened to be Hashicorp. Now Hashicorp is one of my personal favorite companies in the open-source world. So, to say...
View ArticleManager or Leader
Are you a manager or leader?Say what?This is a subject that has been on my mind for many, many years. Some may argue that these are one and the same. They are not. However, you cannot have one without...
View ArticleUpdating Git Project Structure
As of late, I have been working on putting together a Cookiecutter template to use as part of creating new Ansible roles.Some things I have included in cookiecutter-ansible-role template...
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CFD7 - VMware TKG
Recently I had the pleasure to attend #CFD7 in which VMware presented VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid. Our friend, Kendrick Coleman did a great job presenting TKG to us. Even squashed a few...
View ArticleUbuntu 20.04 - cloud-init Gotchas
Recently while working on my latest Packer Templates I ran into an issue with Ubuntu 20.04. The issue was related to cloud-init not being able to grow the root partition nor change the hostname. I was...
View ArticleNFD24 - DriveNets
Recently I had the privilege to attend NFD 24 in which DriveNets presented. I had never heard of them until this event. Which I am shaming myself for because they are doing some amazing things around...
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