Managing Windows with SaltStack Config – Part 2: Roles & Config
In the previous blog we got started with managing Windows using SaltStack Config, getting familiar with winrepo and installing software
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Automation such as Terraform, Ansible, etc
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Managing Windows with SaltStack Config – Part 1: Winrepo
In the last series with SaltStack Config, we focused more on building out a nginx configuration with beacons and reactors,
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Getting Started with SaltStack Config – Part 4: Beacons & Reactors
The final blog in this 4 part series is all about creating an automatic self-healing infrastructure, preventing accidental and malicious
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Getting Started with SaltStack Config – Part 3: Configure nginx
In the first and second parts of this series, we got to grips with SaltStack Config, understanding the terminology, how
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Getting Started with SaltStack Config – Part 1: Getting Familiar
Roughly 12 months ago VMware completed the purchase of Salt, a configuration management platform, based on open source tech. Since
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Getting Started with SaltStack Config – Part 2: Installing NGINX
In the first blog, we focused on ensuring we had SaltStack Config deployed (either in the cloud, or self-hosted), ensuring
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Want to start using Terraform to manage VMC? Here are some gotchas!
Infrastructure-as-code, automation and particularly Terraform is the hot topic at the moment, and rightfully so. There has been some fantastic
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VMware Cloud on AWS: Windows provisioning using Terraform
I’ve been fortunate to work closely with VMware and in particular, the UK-based VMware Cloud on AWS team, over the