A couple months ago one of our customers migrated their production environment to a new Cloud provider. They still needed live access to portions of their legacy system, but wanted downsize and decommission a subset of about 500+ Virtual Machines to save cost. The process of decommissioning/resizing each VM was […]
Sean Shuping
25 posts
I was really surprised to see how easy it is to configure Ansible Tower/AWX to use Microsofts Azure AD as an external Identity Provider. Not only does this simplify user management in Ansible Tower within our organisation but also opens the possibility of providing “Ansible as a Service” to our […]
Greetings mere mortal! In today’s experiment I attempt to provide a practical guide to IT automation for the mere mortal just starting their automation journey. Check out the code used in the video here: https://github.com/dvntstph/awx-opens…
Greetings mere mortal! In today’s experiment I discuss the concept of pods. I briefly touch on the differences between Intel Rack Scale Design pods and KVM pods and then do a conversational walk through of using KVM pods in MAAS 2.6.x as a simple, easy to use Virtualization solution. I […]
Greetings mere mortal! I wanted to share some networking tips that I’ve just learned as a result of one of my other projects. I look at creating and attaching LXC profiles to a VLAN network as opposed to the standard NAT bridge that LXD configures by default. There’s also some […]
I’m currently busy with a project in my home lab that requires a machine on my test LAN to be issuing IP addresses. I figured I’d use an LXC container on my Ubuntu Desktop because it’s lightweight and a convenient way to contain DHCP server software without having to install […]
I’ve been obsessed with Openstack for a couple years now because it allows me to build scenarios and learn from them very quickly with very little effort. I’ve always tried to share this with my friends and coworkers so that they too can partake in this accelerated learning experience. Openstack […]
Greetings mere mortal! I decided to build something that would streamline the enrolment of tenants into my Openstack cloud. Now keeping in mind that I’m more of a systems and infrastructure guy and not a developer. It’s up to you to decide whether doing so using only Ansible, some bash […]
Greetings mere mortal! In this snippet I’ll be building a 6 node Openstack cluster using Juju Charms and Metal as a Service. I share some tweaks and hacks you can do with scaling Nova Computer and Ceph Object Storage Daemons. I’ll also do a walk through of some of the […]
Greetings mere mortal! In this video I fast track you through configuring IPSEC VPN connections from two local Fortigate Firewalls to a central VNET gateway inside of Microsoft Azure.
I recently did a two part video section on HA AWX Ansible. Check out part 1 here if you haven’t seen it. In this post I’ll be sharing some of the more intricate details of the things I did in the video. To start off I need to clear up […]
Greetings mere mortal! In this video I get overly excited about the possibility of configuring AWX ansible in a somewhat resilient and highly available manner. If you know anything about AWX ansible, you’ll know that high availability is not the projects main focus. If you need that sort of functionality, […]