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If you try to perform Packer builds of CoreOS on Hyper-V, you're going to have issues. This post describes a specific network issue and offers a temporary solution which allows Packer builds to complete successfully. I say temporary because the issue can be resolved by CoreOS fully implementing Hyper-V Integration Services (hopefully soon) or by … Continue reading Getting Packer working with CoreOS on Hyper-V
Over the last year I have really started playing with Desired State Configuration. This is another player in the increasingly crowded 'Infrastructure as Code' market. Other major players being Ansible, Salt, Chef, and Puppet, to name a few. I remember when I was researching some of the different available tools I ended up searching for … Continue reading Introduction to Chef + DSC
This post is about using Pester for infrastructure validation (Skype for Business is used for the example infrastructure). So what is Pester? They describe it very well on their wiki: "Pester provides a framework for running Unit Tests to execute and validate PowerShell commands. Pester follows a file naming convention for naming tests to be … Continue reading Testing Infrastructure with Pester
This post will be about automating the deployment of KEMP load balancers for Skype for Business. More specifically, it's about using the fairly new KEMP Python SDK to script it. If you have not yet heard of this SDK I did write an introductory post about it awhile ago. I suggest starting there. Deployment Scenario For … Continue reading Automating a Skype for Business Reverse Proxy Deployment with the KEMP SDK
KEMP Technologies has been doing some pretty cool stuff as of late. Not only are they starting to publish code on GitHub, but they also recently released a Python SDK for deploying and administering some of their products. In this post I'll just run through the steps in getting setup to use the SDK and provide … Continue reading Exploring the New KEMP SDK
I talked to a few people at Microsoft Ignite this last week about their thoughts on containers in Windows land. While pretty much everyone agrees that it's a neat direction, they also agree that it's been a bit confusing. I want to just clear a few things up for folks who may still be confused. … Continue reading State of Windows Containers (Post-Ignite)
It's finally time to start playing with Ansible. Part 1 of this series gives a brief introduction to Ansible as a tool, so I'll skip over that and go straight into it. At this point I'll assume that the Ansible control server and the other nodes are already provisioned. If that's not the case, then … Continue reading Sandboxing Ansible – Part 4: Ansible
