HashiConf took place a couple of weeks ago now, and during the event I presented a community based Lightning Talk live. The session is based on using Infrastructure as Code tooling to enhance mundane deployments and in the talk, I talk through how mundane approaches are still being used by lots of people and why […] Read More
HashiConf Digital gets underway shortly and will offer two days of product reveals, technical sessions and Lightning Talks attracting a huge number of attendees from around the devops world. It is free and open to all. I’m looking forward to attending a few sessions virtually to see what HashiCorp has to offer and to see […] Read More
My recent obsession with automation and Infrastructure as Code in general has resulted in a lot of efficiencies in my day to day work life. Where I used to deploy Windows Templates manually through vSphere, I now use Terraform to handle repeatable deployments of lab server instances. I use Ansible and Chocolatey to install and […] Read More
Visual Studio Code has become my default tool for almost everything I do these days when tinkering with automation and Infrastructure as Code. It’s also my default PowerShell editor and I have learnt to use the powerful plugins/modules that are made available through the Visual Studio Market Place Extension Library. It has come a long […] Read More
In the continuing spirit of Terraforming all things, when I started to look into Ansible I wanted a way to have the base Control Node installed in a repeatable and consistent way. The setup and configuration of Ansible can be tricky and what I learnt in configuring the Ansible Control Node is that there can […] Read More