Automation
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PSWindowsupdate: Automated Windows Updates with PowerShell
The process to install Windows Updates can be a pain. Managing WSUS servers can be a headache too. However, with…
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Ansible Software Patching for Beginners
Ansible is a powerful open-source automation platform designed to help administrators manage and automate various tasks across their infrastructure. Open-source…
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Ansible Docker Container Management Playbooks
Two very powerful free and open-source solutions that you may have heard about already are Ansible and Docker. What are…
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Choosing the Best VMware Automation Tools
Providing streamlined and consistent management across the virtual estate is extremely important when using enterprise virtualization servers to run virtual…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Packer Build Ubuntu 21.04 for VMware vSphere
If you aren’t already using Hashicorp Packer for automating builds of the various operating systems you use in your environment,…
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