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Cloud-Agnostic: Friend or Foe?

I have been working on a project for a while that includes the deployment of a large number of moving parts that are in a significant state of flux. Drops every two weeks, new features added all the …

  • Automation
  • OpenStack
  • AWS
  • Cloud
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Landing your first OpenStack Contribution

In my previous post I showed you how to get your OpenStack git environment up and running by using a container. In this post we will go through the steps needed to actually contribute code. This will …

  • Automation
  • OpenStack
  • Miscellaneous
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Introducing VIRL Personal Edition

This is an internal Cisco tool which is so useful – that I am really pleased that it is finally available for public consumption. VIRL Stands for Virtual Internet Routing Lab What Is VIRL? VIRL is …

  • Automation
  • Tools
  • OpenStack
  • Miscellaneous
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Start Contributing to OpenStack - The Easy Way docker

One of the most daunting and complicated things people find when trying to provide feedback and suggestions to the OpenStack community, projects and code – is the nuts and bolts of actually getting …

  • Automation
  • docker
  • OpenStack
  • Miscellaneous
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Automating Blog Retweets

I love IFTTT – it is a simple way to automate things. If This Then That. If something happens – then do something else. I am already using a number of IFTTT recipes to help me in automating my daily …

  • Automation
  • Blogger
  • Miscellaneous
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vCenter Orchestrator - Finally Gaining Traction

I have stated before (here), vCenter Orchestrator was the least utilized and least understood product in the VMware product suites, which is a shame – because the capabilities in Orchestrator are …

  • Automation
  • Orchestrator
  • Miscellaneous
  • VMware
5 min read

Installing ESXi with Razor

This is part #6 of the Razor series. In the last post we looked at what lies within the installer. In this post we will go more into detail of how exactly the installation process works. Fort his post …

  • Automation
  • Orchestration
  • Razor
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Razor - What Lies Within the installer?

This is part #5 of the Razor series. In the last post we looked at Policies, Tags and touched slightly on Installers. In this post we will go more into detail into what exactly the installer does. …

  • Automation
  • Orchestration
  • Razor
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Razor - Installers, Policies and Tags

This is part 4 of a series of posts on the new version of razor-server Installing Razor - Yes the New Version.. Razor - DHCP and TFTP Installing the Razor client and creating a repository Installers, …

  • Automation
  • Orchestration
  • Razor
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Installing the Razor-Client and Creating a Repository

This is part three in the Razor Series. In part #2 we saw how to configure DHCP ad TFTP and as I mentioned in a previous post, the client is now a separate component. Installing Razor - Yes the New …

  • Automation
  • Orchestration
  • Razor