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Deploying a Windows VM using vRealize Automation & configuring with SaltStack Config – Part 2

The first blog post of this two part series covered getting our vRealize Automation and SaltStack Config environments prepared, a Windows Server template prepared, and a testing a successful deployment that has the SaltStack minion installed. In this second part, we’ll now focus on setting up out state files to configure the Windows Server to … Continue reading Deploying a Windows VM using vRealize Automation & configuring with SaltStack Config – Part 2

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Deploying a Windows VM using vRealize Automation & configuring with SaltStack Config – Part 1

In this two-part blog post series, I’m going to detail what I consider a basic customer use case when deploying new Windows Servers in their environment. Deploy a Windows Server Virtual Machine Add to the Active Directory Domain Install software Configure some system settings To achieve this, I’m going to use vRealize Automation to deploy … Continue reading Deploying a Windows VM using vRealize Automation & configuring with SaltStack Config – Part 1

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A debugging example of Salt Win-Repo issues

The Issue I was hitting issues when trying to use the Salt Win-Repo to install software. Below is a copy of my state file. ensure_malwarebytes_installed: pkg.installed: – pkgs: – malwarebytes It would fail with the below helpful error messages. But most importantly, I’d check the minion, to find the software was actually installed. { “return”: … Continue reading A debugging example of Salt Win-Repo issues

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vRealize Automation – Deploying a GKE Cluster with Code Stream, add to Tanzu Mission Control & Tanzu Service Mesh

This walk-through will detail the technical configurations for using vRA Code Stream to deploy Google Kubernetes Clusters (GKE), register them as: Kubernetes endpoints in vRA Cloud Assembly and Code Stream An attached in Tanzu Mission Control Onboard in Tanzu Service Mesh This post mirrors my other blog posts following similar concepts: Using vRA to deploy … Continue reading vRealize Automation – Deploying a GKE Cluster with Code Stream, add to Tanzu Mission Control & Tanzu Service Mesh

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Interview with Daniel Bryant, Ambassador Labs – Kubernetes, PaaS, Err what’s next?

I’m really excited to get this interview out of the door. I missed Daniel’s session at KubeCon, “From Kubernetes to PaaS to … Err, What’s Next?”. The room was packed, I wasn’t able to sit in, so instead I watched it from the KubeCon live stream, sat on the beanbags in the hallway. The session … Continue reading Interview with Daniel Bryant, Ambassador Labs – Kubernetes, PaaS, Err what’s next?