A few months back, I had some fun playing round with Terraform with VMC on AWS. It’s fair to say, I caught a bit of the old automation bug, so this time I thought I’d play around with Ansible. This is how I got myself started….
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As we enter November, the penultimate month in a rather turbulent year, my thoughts normally wander on to what the next year will bring tech wise for me. Despite a punishing year for many businesses, the big tech companies (on the whole) have continued to grow, AWS posted revenues $11.6bn for Q3 2020, up by 29% year on year and Google Cloud made $3.44bn compared to $2.38bn for same quarter in 2019. But forget about the big boys, what’s more interesting is those tech companies on the way up, and theres a few!
Continue readingI’ve been fortunate to work closely with VMware and in particular, the UK-based VMware Cloud on AWS team, over the last 18 months or so. Stagecoach were one of the first businesses in the UK to adopt it as their cloud platform of choice alongside AWS and so we have forged a strong relationship with their team, in particular Nico Vibert. I tell you this as some simple promotion for his website, because a good percentage of this code was his. If you’re into Terraform and VMWonAWS then head over to his website.
Goals:
- Terraform connectivity to my VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC
- Clone existing vSphere template to singular VM
- Clone existing vSphere template to multiple VMs
- Dynamically name the VMs
- Dynamically name the machines in Windows
- Assign an sequential IP to each VM
- Join to an Active Directory domain
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1 week ago
M365 - what to look out for? A few learnings from me over the past few years that you need to be aware of #m365 #o365 #tipsandtricks https://t.co/nbeZYofXb7
M365 - what to look out for? A few learnings from me over the past few years that you need to be aware of #m365 #o365 #tipsandtricks https://t.co/nbeZYofXb7
2 weeks ago
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen this in my career. Not just within infrastructure but business processes too https://t.co/ejPCF2RQlE
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen this in my career. Not just within infrastructure but business processes too https://t.co/ejPCF2RQlE
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Best cartoon of the decade by @xkcd - and a summary of so many conversations. https://t.co/2UMUtYpeNQ
Best cartoon of the decade by @xkcd - and a summary of so many conversations. https://t.co/2UMUtYpeNQ
3 weeks ago
Devastated is the only word that describes how I feel right now. Well done @azzurri, you played a great tournament. @England you’ve done us proud, brought a country together when we needed it #EURO2020
Devastated is the only word that describes how I feel right now. Well done @azzurri, you played a great tournament. @England you’ve done us proud, brought a country together when we needed it #EURO2020