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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…