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Ignite - Ask the Experts: PowerShell Ignite is Microsoft’s annual conference. This year was the first time I had ever been able to attend, but I also had the pleasure to sit on an “Ask the Experts” panel. Sep 23, 2020 - 1 min read
Deploying Splunk Enterprise with Nomad I was recently asked to work on some integration pieces between Terraform and Splunk. Luckily, Splunk has a Docker container image that handles all the work of deploying a VM, updating it, installing Splunk, and performing the initial configurations. Sep 5, 2020 - 2 min read
Announcing Terraform Cloud's Business Tier Terraform Cloud has added a brand-new tier with some fantastic new features. As part of this release announcement, Armon Dadgar and I take a look at Terraform Cloud’s new Business tier and the features which enterprise environments have really come to expect. Aug 12, 2020 - 1 min read
Automating Blog Updates With GitHub Actions A while back, I transitioned my blog from Wordpress to Hugo. The transition was relatively painless, mainly due to the number of tools available to manage that process. However, this blog isn’t about the transition. May 16, 2020 - 6 min read
Terraform - Foundational Policies Library and GKE The usage of Kubernetes continues to grow for most organizations. HashiCorp Terraform is used to simplify the Kubernetes deployment and management process by defining the necessary components as code. This can also be taken a step further by configuring guardrails, which help to protect infrastructure changes that may go against the business’ policies or don’t follow regulatory policies. May 7, 2020 - 2 min read
Terraform - GitHub Actions Integration Recently, there was a great new resource added to the GitHub Marketplace which allows us to easily integrate the HashiCorp Terraform CLI into the CI/CD process that’s been made available with GitHub Actions. May 6, 2020 - 4 min read
vBrownBag - Python for PowerShellers The good folks at vBrownbag always have some really good series. The current series is around using Python and applying its usage to DevOps concepts and principles. I was asked to present one of the sessions and decided to cover a few tips and tricks for folks with an existing knowledge of PowerShell and how they can translate directly to Python usage. Aug 8, 2019 - 1 min read
PSConfEU - vSphere Security Compliance in a DevOps World PSConfEU is Europe’s largest PowerShell conference and this year I had the distinct pleasure of not only attending, but also presenting! It is 4 days of non-stop PowerShell knowledge bombs in just about every area you can think of and I had a blast! Jul 15, 2019 - 1 min read
PSConfEU - Manage vSphere with PowerCLI DSC Resources, Finally! PSConfEU is Europe’s largest PowerShell conference and this year I had the distinct pleasure of not only attending, but also presenting! It is 4 days of non-stop PowerShell knowledge bombs in just about every area you can think of and I had a blast! Jul 14, 2019 - 1 min read
PowerCLI - Accurately Sorting VMTool Versions Keeping a VM’s VMware Tools up-to-date is an important role to anyone whom administers a VMware environment. VMware Tools provide the latest and greatest drivers and provides easy access in order to interact with the underlying guest OS, like performing power options gracefully. Jun 12, 2019 - 2 min read