Networking for a home lab hypervisorThis is now part 3 of the home lab hypervisor chronicles (part 1 and part 2) and we’re at the point of needing to work through how we want…5d ago5d ago
Building an installer for a home lab hypervisorThis blog post picks up from where we left off with building a custom hypervisor for the home lab. There were a couple of design…Mar 18Mar 18
Building a home lab hypervisorThe hypervisor wars are now in full swing and people are looking for options. VMware has dominated the virtualization market for the…Mar 14Mar 14
Creating a VMware vSphere Role with GolangThe concept of least privilege is a security best practice of ensuring that only the permissions that are absolutely necessary should be…Mar 12Mar 12
Installing Puppet Enterprise 2021Puppet is a popular open source configuration management tool for managing the configuration of systems using declarative code. Puppet…Dec 20, 2021Dec 20, 2021
Deploying Kuma Service Mesh with Puppet BoltKuma is a platform agnostic open-source control plane for service mesh and microservices management, with support for Kubernetes, VM, and…Apr 5, 2021Apr 5, 2021
Deploying HashiCorp Consul Agents With Puppet BoltHashiCorp Consul is an open source tool that solves these new complexities by providing service discovery, health checks, load balancing…Dec 7, 2020Dec 7, 2020
Deploy a Node application using Puppet BoltApplication deployment is a multi-step process that can even include touching multiple machines or systems. In this blog post we’ll look at…Nov 10, 2020Nov 10, 2020
Using Puppet Bolt with REST APIsPuppet Bolt is an open source automation and orchestration tool. One of the common tasks in an orchestration workflow is interacting with…Nov 2, 2020Nov 2, 2020
Automate in YAML with Puppet BoltThe Puppet DSL or Domain Specific Language is one of the things most associated with Puppet. A number of other automation tools make use…Oct 21, 2020Oct 21, 2020
Terraform is not Ansible or PuppetThere’s a common misconception that Terraform does the exact same thing as Ansible, Puppet or other tools that fall into the configuration…Oct 14, 2020Oct 14, 2020
Configuration Management in a Service Mesh WorldIn the IT space one could say that kubernetes is eating the IT world and it’s bringing an entire ecosystem to the table. One of the dinner…Oct 2, 2020Oct 2, 2020
Puppet Bolt Dynamic Inventory for AzurePublic cloud workloads are often very dynamic in nature and sometimes there isn’t a master list of all the instances that have been…Sep 4, 2020Sep 4, 2020
Puppet Azure Key Vault IntegrationAutomation is a necessity in today’s IT landscape but with great power comes great responsibility. Properly handling sensitive data such…Aug 24, 2020Aug 24, 2020
Deploying Puppet Enterprise Agents with HashiCorp Terraform on Azure VMsHashiCorp Terraform is an open source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool that is widely used to deploy cloud infrastructure in the public…Aug 18, 2020Aug 18, 2020
Creating Azure VM Images With Packer and Puppet BoltHashiCorp Packer is a free and open source tool for creating golden images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration…Aug 11, 2020Aug 11, 2020
Collecting System Information Using Puppet BoltAs a system administrator collecting information about what version of software is installed or what’s the setting in a particular file…Aug 5, 2020Aug 5, 2020
Install Grafana With Puppet BoltGrafana is a multi-platform open source analytics and interactive visualization web application.Jul 28, 2020Jul 28, 2020
Deploy Datadog Agents With Puppet BoltDatadog is a monitoring service for monitoring servers, databases, tools, and services. This post covers using Puppet Bolt to install…Jul 22, 2020Jul 22, 2020
Install Prometheus With Puppet BoltPrometheus is an open source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit that is commonly used in Kubernetes deployments.Jul 20, 2020Jul 20, 2020
