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Usually at least one of those is present on any system dig nslookup host But sometimes the usual suspects don’t work, especially in container-land.

It is possible to customize almost all of the user portal but you better know what you are doing.

The idea at the start was simple.

The idea at the start was simple.

In theory Ansible should be declarative and have full control over the systems we touch with it.

SELinux by default prohibits certain things from working through VMware tools (Ansible connection or plain API).

You can intercept normal name resolution in curl with the --resolve parameter allowing you to do things like talk to a specific site of a DNS load-balanced setup or talk to a new deployment not yet made productive.

date on MacOS does not support --date, so a workaround is needed.

You want to push a branch to GitLab and automatically create a Merge Request (MR) for it.

Sometimes it’s nice to download a best effort version of a website, for example before completely redesigning it. domain=WEB.SITE wget $domain --recursive --no-clobber --page-requisites --html-extension --convert-links --restrict-file-names=windows --doma…

I published a post about how to work with parameter defaults in PowerShell over on the ScriptRunner blog.

Today we take a closer look at the null-coalescing operator and how it can help us in writing smarter, more concise scripts.

My tool of choice for doing dependency maintenance/update type of stuff for both [[infrastructure-as-code]] and [[software-projects]]

As part of my goal to write a book I began looking at how to build a following and where to sell the book once it’s finished.

For the love of Pete, please delete your old snapshots regularly!

Finding files, do I even need to describe how important this is?

The year is coming to an end, with all its ups and downs 2020 surely was challenging to say the least.

Lets talk about affiliate links for a moment.

I recently wrote a post about PowerShell Aliasing for the folks over at ScriptRunner.

I published a post about aliasing with PowerShell over on the ScriptRunner blog.

Q: Wait a minute!

Randomizing a collection is useful in a variety of situations and in most languages it is fairly straight forward.

Filtering data, from log or config files to data returned by an api, is an important operation to remove noise from it and make further analysis possible.

Printing the last or first, few lines of a file is a common operation in day to day operations.

Whats the first thing coming to mind when seeing a command line?

Docs Copy To Guest $vm = Get-VM -Name TEST Get-Item "X:\yourfile.txt" | Copy-VMGuestFile -Destination "c:\temp" -VM $vm -LocalToGuest -GuestUser "Administrator" -GuestPassword "Pa$$w0rd" Copy From Guest $vm = Get-VM -Name TEST Copy-VMGuestFile -Source c:…

When using VMware as the connection plugin to connect to remote hosts you commonly set two facts for username and password: ansible_vmware_tools_user: "mkamner" ansible_vmare_tools_password: "Super Secret PW" This will work just fine for windows and with…

Handy table to map IANA IDs of ciphers to their openSSL IDs used in web server configurations, for example [[nginx]] ssl_ciphers or proxy_ssl_ciphers https://testssl.sh/openssl-iana.mapping.html

These days Python is my language of choice for both simple scripts and more complex backend applications, usually in combination with [[django]]

PowerShell holds a special place in my heart as it was the first ever tool I dived into deeply and used to automate my daily work.

My operating system of choice on the client, usually on a MacBook Pro.

My prefered tool for writing and provisioning home-built manifests to [[kubernetes]]

I have run and am still running loads of Kubernetes clusters, mostly on-premise.

A incredibly powerful tool for manipulating the heaps of JSON files and responses I interact with daily.

My static site generator of choice, used to build my blog among other things.

A good way to pull in external dependencies into Kubernetes For writing my own manifests I prefer to use Kustomize.

My preferred git server and CI/CD system, either gitlab.com or self-hosted.

My preferred framework for building web apps

Need to automate a VM?

Errors connecting to vCenter or any ESXi server in the cluster without certificate errors?