CUSTOM DNS RESOLVER FOR HOMELABS
Using custom dns servers, depending on enviroment, or resolving multiple internal domains, can be a real pain. You can setup host files, but it’s a pain to manage. You can also setup your own DNS server, but if you are using company VPN etc, then it’s not always the right DNS server, that is being used.
GIVING BACK FOR THE FIRST TIME
One thing, I have been wanting to do, ever since I started learning Python, and started using Github, was to give back, the the projects, that I use. I remember reading, how to get started doing this, but I see myself as a beginner, when it comes to coding, and find myself thinking, “why would anybody want something, that I have done.
APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT WITH SALT AND VRA
Here is a short post, around my first integration between SaltStack and vRealize Automation. Expect this to be updated, as I get more experience in SaltStack. Note VMware (The company I work for), bought SaltStack, so I don’t know, what the future plans look like, and if this is the correct way going forward, to do this kind of integration.
DOCKER FOR ALMOST EVERYTHING
I’m no expert in containers, but I do talk to a lot of admins in my job, that has not taken the time, to look at containers yet, and therefore haven’t found, if they can be a usefull tool, for them. I think it has a lot to do, with containers, being something developers use, and all the talk around Kubernetes (K8S).
AUTOMATING FOLDING@HOME WITH VMWARE CODE STREAM
I am always looking for new ways to do demo’s, and to showcase the solutions the company I work for have. One usecase, that I really wanted to show, was infrastructure as code (IAC), using a combination of both VMware and opensource tools. But not just as a deploy and destroy, but also as a way to maintain state in something that keeps running, and do the changes, from a source repository, like Github.
MOVE BLOG
For the last year or so, I have seen a lot of people, talking about their move of blogs, from a traditionel CMS system, to a static site. I have had this on my todo, for quite some time, but I have also been quite satisfied, with blogger (my old blog hosting).
JENKINS AND CODESTREAM CSRF FIX
For some time, I have had the problem with Jenkins, that when I ran my Code Stream pipeline, it gave me the following error To fix it, I have been running the code below, in the Jenkins “Script Console” import jenkins.model.Jenkins def instance = Jenkins.instance instance.setCrumbIssuer(null) This has been ok, until my container, running Jenkins, restarted or got updated, and then I got the error again.
DEMO ENVIROMENT ON DEMAND
A couple of years ago Jad El-Zein (@virtualjad) created a demo, where he ordered a VM (I think it was) using Siri on his iPhone, with vRealize Automation (VRA). As a side project, to another thing, I’m working on, I thought I would recreate that demo, in a 2020 VRA Cloud version.
HOW TO SHOW THE VALUE OF AUTOMATION
Being able to show the value, of automation is essential, to be able to keep getting support, for the time you spend on it. One of my coworkers (Tore Brynaa) , gave me an idea, on how we could show that value back to the business, for the customers that have begun using vRealize Automation.
REMOTE DEVELOPMENT FROM ANYWHERE
VScode is that type of software, that I hated in the beginning, and now love (for the most part). I have never been any good at coding, scripting etc. but the more my day job, exposes me to automation, the more I want to learn. And along with that, I found out, that VScode, was one of the thing, I better learn to love (or live with).