As of this writing, the docs for deploying PCF on Amazon using Terraform have a gap that could lead to a lot of frustration. In short, the Terraform files and docs have switched to using Network Load Balancers instead of 'Classic', Elastic Load Balancers. The end result is there …
read moreWe have an offline (i.e. airgapped) Ubuntu machine (or machines) and the need to install packages on them. We also are unable to stand up our own repo mirror (because reasons), so all we have is our single machine with limited disk space.
Package up only the …
read moreWe need to make several Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs) for our datacenter. Two, or two-thousand, it doesn't matter. We're putting together a one-liner that will solve it for us. Of course we're automating it.
Create a text file containing your server short names. Say, servers.txt.
salt-master-01
es-data-01 …In keeping with the fundamentals, here's a handy one-liner to save yourself a few extra commands.
We want to delete a number of machines via Salt Cloud, but we want it in a one-liner because we hate typing the same thing over and over.
$ salt-key
Accepted Keys:
esdata-01
esdata-02 …Salt has moved on from simple configuration management and is better described as "event-driven automation". At the heart of this argument is the message bus.
A typical follow up to getting your hands around your internal cloud is going to be management of your network space. Let's go through …
read moreIt turns out that there are a lot of nuances when using Saltstack with VMWare. Let's walk through the requirements for successfully using Saltstack to deploy VMs on VMWare.
To narrow the scope of this post, we'll assume the following is already taken care of.
If there's one thing that the great Saint Atwood taught me, it's this - software is built to help people do their jobs. That's why we have automation, right? Because we need something done and would rather not spend all our time manually building something. That's why we have software, computers …
read moreI've always said that Salt is not configuration management. I want to expand on one of the capabilities that Salt, as a platform, can offer you. That capability lies just under all the salt commands you're accustomed to firing on the command line. It's Salt's Python API, not to be …
Sometimes you need to make a few VMs. For me, it's usually libvirt.
We have some scripting around the creation of a number of machines, but what we don't have (yet) is the ability to add additional disks to those VMs. So instead of chasing each machine in the VM …
read moreIn trying to keep up with the latest in technology and staying relevant, it's easy to forget that each one of these emerging technologies is built upon a bedrock of simple, reliable tools. Simple tools that you can learn, and then …
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