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…
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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 […]
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.
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, […]
Over the last few weeks I’ve been messing around with MAAS and JuJu and I’ve come to the conclusion that these two pieces of software are the perfect solution to achieving the ever so elusive “Hybrid Cloud Model” I started out testing MAAS because I’m a bit of a hardware […]