Saving a Few Shekels on your AWS bill
I have a jumpbox that I use to access resources in the cloud – and I use it at work, only during work hours and only on workdays. There are usually 720 work hours in the month or 744 in months that …
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Subscribe via RSS →Comparing CloudFormation, Terraform and Ansible - Simple example
Whenever someone asks me what tools do you use to provision your infrastructure within AWS - the answer is it can be done with a variety of tools - but people usually use one of the following three …
Comparing CloudFormation, Terraform and Ansible Part #2
The feedback I received from the first comparison was great – thank you all. Obviously the example I used was not really something that you would use in the real world – because no-one actually …
PowerShell Profile Tricks for Better VMware Management
My new post on some PowerShell Profile tricks for VMware has been published on the Petri IT knowledgebase. As an IT pro, we rely on scripts to manage our VMware environment, which helps us be more …
Interesting Tidbit in PowerCLI Release Notes
With last week’s release - there was also an updated version on PowerCLI that was released as well. VMware vSphere PowerCLI 5.5 Release 1 Release Notes I noticed something quite strange …
Change Outlook Meetings En Masse
I had my mailbox migrated to a new domain today. One of the side effects of this was that for silly reason, a large number of my meetings now had a prefix of Copy: added to the subject of the meeting. …
How To Deal With a Complex Project
You have been tasked with a task, it could be a long term project, a one-off thing. These usually involve identification of number of tasks and stages that need to be executed in order to complete the …
Configuring SSH Equivalence for Oracle RAC
SSH Equivalence is one of the pre-requisites needed for an Oracle RAC installation. There are a number of posts on how to do this like here or here, and Oracle even have been so kind as to provide a …
Another PowerShell vExpert.me URL Shortner
Building on Jonathan Medd’s excellent idea of Using PowerShell to access the vExpert.me URL Shortener, I decided to improve it a bit more. Here is the completed script. <# .SYNOPSIS Will create a …
PowerCLI Does not officially support Powershell v3
Just a heads up. According to the Release Notes PowerCLI is not supported Does this mean that it will not work – No of course not! From what I have tested it works almost flawlessly – but there are …