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Securing Your vSphere Environment from Ransomware Part 2: Rubber Meets Road

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on January 31, 2022

In Part 1, I may have scared the crap out of you introduced protecting your…

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Building Kubernetes-enabled Tower/AWX Execution Environments Using AWX-EE and ansible-builder

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on December 7, 2021

Disclaimer: this post is a bit more on the intermediate/advanced side, but you can always…

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Ansible Tips and Tricks: –list-hosts and/or Forcing People to Use –limit

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on April 19, 2021June 17, 2021

As much as I would like to think that I am careful when running Ansible…

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The Power of Ansible AWX (A.K.A. The “Free” Ansible Tower)

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on November 16, 2020November 17, 2020

I know, I know. It has been a while. I have no excuses: I just…

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VMWorld 2020 – Now Live!

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on September 29, 2020

For those of you here to checkout the resources discussed in my session, here’s everything…

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A Method for Auto-Generating Ansible Inventory Files for ESXi Hosts with PowerCLI

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on June 29, 2020

TL;DR: https://github.com/bryansullins/myvmwarekit/blob/master/MY.VMWAREKIT/StandaloneScripts/HostInventoryFiles.ps1 First, a Rant Did I ever tell you how often I run into…

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An Episode in “What I Learned This Week”: “Proper” bash Scripting and Using Blocks in Ansible

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on May 14, 2020May 14, 2020

A disclaimer: There are probably other ways to solve what follows here, but this is…

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Single Touch, Production Ready ESXi Provisioning with Ansible – HPE Oneview/Synergy/Image Streamer Edition

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on March 24, 2020April 25, 2020

In this post, I am going shamelessly vendor-specific with the use of a suite of tools from HPE’s Composable Infrastructure. It includes HPE Synergy Frames and Blades, the HPE Oneview Appliance, the HPE Image Streamer Appliance, and use of the Oneview Server Profiles therein.

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Single Touch, Production Ready ESXi Provisioning with Ansible

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on March 14, 2020April 12, 2020

TL;DR: The source code and documentation for what follows is on my github here: https://github.com/bryansullins/baremetalesxi.…

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