Nested ESXi Templates
Over the past week I have been working on a streamlined process to deploy nested ESXi 6.7 via automation tooling. Going through this I came across an issue w...
Virtualization
VMware Workstation - Enter Serial Number From Linux CLI
Well, this was a fun exercise. While building out some VMs to execute Packer image builds for vSphere, I installed VMware Workstation via Ansible and forgot ...
Ubuntu 18.04 Templates - Duplicate IPs
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...
Python - vSphere Host Networking Info
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...
KVM - VM Templates
It has been a minute since I had done any KVM based VMs so I wanted to share some little tidbits on creating your KVM templates. I will be focusing on Debian...
Vagrant - Multi-Group Ansible Provisioning
As I continue to develop different scenario testing I continually try to leverage a common Vagrantfile across scenarios while only having to adjust variables...
Vagrant Box Templates
Over the past few months I have been putting together some Vagrant box templates based on different Linux distros all using Packer. My goal is to have a stan...
Ubuntu - VMware Template Cleanup Script
Just sharing these scripts in case anyone ever needs/wants a quick way to prep an Ubuntu VM template with/without guest customizations. One script is just a ...
Vagrant - Complex Vagrantfile Configurations
I will be using this a reference for adding various Vagrant configurations for setting up testing environments. I really just wanted to put this out here bec...
Vagrant - Ansible Provisioning multi-nodes
I am just throwing this out here for my own reference because I seem to always forget how to do this when spinning up multiple nodes within a Vagrant environ...
Vagrant - Adding a second hard drive
I was just working on some Vagrant lab stuff and had a need to spin up a Vagrant node with more than one hard drive. So I turned to google and did some searc...
Migrating VMs from PF9 KVM to ESXi
I have been doing some testing over the past few months of Platform9 running on top of KVM and I have to admit that it has been a very good experience. Howev...
Packer - Vagrant - Ansible - Windows
While doing some Packer builds for Windows Server 2012 R2 to be used with Vagrant in order to do some Ansible learning I stumbled across this issue.
Vagrant - Multi-NIC Definitions via YAML
I am currently working on a little routing project to use as a learning tool for others to easily consume by using Vagrant and Ansible (Inspired by this post...
Learning Vagrant and Ansible Provisioning
After attending Tech Field Day (#NFD10) there was a great deal of discussion around using Vagrant and Ansible for building out environments and provisioning ...