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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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My Review of “The Unicorn Project”: Lessons in Common Sense

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on May 20, 2020

I have read both The Phoenix Project and just finished The Unicorn Project. If you…

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A Kubernetes Lab Story: The Vagranting – Part 2: Running Kubernetes on Vagrant

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on May 6, 2020May 6, 2020

In Part 1, I disclosed the trials and tribulations of putting together this lab. Here, I will give you the lab itself in all its glory, and some tips and tricks.

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A Kubernetes Lab Story: The Vagranting – Part 1: Trials and Tribulations

  • by bryansullins
  • Posted on April 29, 2020

A Kubernetes Lab Story: The Vagranting Movie Trailer Voice: In a world flooded with Vagrant…

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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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