Home Assistant: Getting to grips with the basics
If you’ve read the previous blogs, you’ll already know why to go Smart Home, what options there are…
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 1: Getting Familiar
Roughly 12 months ago VMware completed the purchase of Salt, a configuration management platform, based on open source…
Using Workspace One Sensors with Freestyle Orchestrator
This is a very short post, just showing anyone who is vaguely interested on how to use Workspace…
Getting Started with Ansible with VMC on AWS
A few months back, I had some fun playing round with Terraform with VMC on AWS. It’s fair…
2020 – The year of IaC?
As we enter November, the penultimate month in a rather turbulent year, my thoughts normally wander on to…
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,…