Ubuntu 18.04 Templates - Duplicate IPs

February 15, 2019 less than 1 minute read

Oh, the joy of Ubuntu 18.04 continually amazes me. As long as I have been using it, I have not provisioned mass VMs using a template. I use Packer for all of...

Streamlining OS Deployments

February 5, 2019 3 minute read

UPDATE: 2023-05-11 - I found this post in my backlog, and it was never published or finished, as you can see. This conversation continues to be something ...

NFDX - Cisco IOS XR - ZTP

January 27, 2019 2 minute read

Python - vSphere Host Networking Info

October 9, 2018 5 minute read

Oh I love Terraform so so much. But why does vSphere feel like a second class citizen? Is it because my use case is a real snowflake? Maybe, maybe not! Howev...

Using ARA Records Ansible Within Projects

June 22, 2018 2 minute read

While exploring some options to provide a level of reporting capabilities as part of a project I figured using ARA would be an awesome idea. My goal was to p...