Its that time again, just 6 weeks until VMware launch the new annual event in Barcelona. The session catalog has been announced and its full of great content, but with 100s of options, which sessions stand out for me?
Continue readingLast week VMware debuted their new annual event, VMware Explore. Gone was the VMworld banners of years gone by, replaced with a slick new brand, promising inclusivity for developers, security folk and others alongside the thousands of VMware followers. Aside from the clientelle though, whats new?
Continue readingThis week VMware announced vSphere+ with a lot of fanfare, but what is it, and why should customers be looking at switching their traditional perpetual on-prem licences to it? Read on and hopefully you’ll learn a thing or two….
Continue readingOne of the great things of being in the world of tech is not just appreciating the next product or feature coming into the products that your business is releasing. Don’t get me wrong – thats awesome cause you can see customers adopting and consuming those new features, but at heart, I’m still the kid who loves the latest thing. When I was younger it was Scalextric, but now as I get ever so close to my 40s I can appreciate a piece of new tech in a variety of industies. Read on if you’re a little geeky like me!
Continue readingIn the previous blog we got started with managing Windows using SaltStack Config, getting familiar with winrepo and installing software in line with our standard server builds. Next we are going to expand upon that and add the correct Windows roles, configuration and settings to our Windows Server builds.
Continue readingIn the last series with SaltStack Config, we focused more on building out a nginx configuration with beacons and reactors, but that was all done on a ubuntu box. But there is more to life than linux right? Lets see how we can use Salt to manage Windows!
Continue readingThe final blog in this 4 part series is all about creating an automatic self-healing infrastructure, preventing accidental and malicious changes to your infrastructure using SaltStack Config. We’re going to protect nginx, mainly because its pretty common, and also keeps it simple for those of us new to SaltStack (me included!)
Continue readingIn the first and second parts of this series, we got to grips with SaltStack Config, understanding the terminology, how to get the minions talking to the master, and even installing NGINX on a ubuntu server without event logging on to it. But now we need to make it a bit more interesting, and ensure we are deploying OUR web app to the server and keeping it consistent. Here we go….
Continue readingIn the first blog, we focused on ensuring we had SaltStack Config deployed (either in the cloud, or self-hosted), ensuring we had minions within the console and we understood the basics and architecture of SaltStack. This one is all about getting started with state files and actually applying some config to those minions.
Continue readingRoughly 12 months ago VMware completed the purchase of Salt, a configuration management platform, based on open source tech. Since then, VMware have been integrating it into its vRA (vRealize Automation Platform), and you can now manage your infrastructure from the cloud. Lets see how we get on…
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