Steve Jennings

@automatingops

Focusing on Azure and IaC adoption

USJoined February 2021

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I am a sysadmin who focuses on the Windows ecosystem (with a spattering of Linux ). I have a passion for the cloud, scripting and solving problems that engineers like me face daily.

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AutomatingOps - A IaC cloud journey automatingops.com4 posts

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SJSteve Jenningsautomatingops.comApr 4, 2021 · 6 min read

Ansible 3.0 and beyond, a collections primer

Background Ansible is a configuration management (CM) tool used to make changes to remote hosts in an idempotent manner. It's a tool that I use on a daily basis and quite frankly is one of my favorite pieces of software. Ansible is extensible, has a ...

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SJSteve Jenningsautomatingops.comMar 28, 2021 · 7 min read

Basic Azure Application Gateway Monitoring

What is Azure Application Gateway Azure Application Gateway is a Layer-7 Load Balancer. For a brief overview of the OSI Model and where Layer-7 fits, check out this fantastic Cloudflare Article. In short, Azure Application Gateway is used to load bal...

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SJSteve Jenningsautomatingops.comMar 13, 2021 · 4 min read

Allowing Windows Subsystem for Linux to communicate with Hyper-V VMs

Howdy! 👋 Hope everyone's weekend is swell! I was experimenting with Windows Subsystem for Linux and Hyper-V. I noticed that almost immediately that my Hyper-V Server 2019 virtual machine was unable to communicate with my Ubuntu 20.04 WSL system on ...

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SJSteve Jenningsautomatingops.comDec 13, 2018 · 3 min read

Error: IMAGE_STATE_UNDEPLOYABLE with Packer and Azure

[This post was originally posted December 13, 2018, I am re-posting this in case it helps others] Ever run into IMAGE_STATE_UNDEPLOYABLE when running Packer against Azure? And it keeps going and going? The issue here is actually with sysprep and not ...

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Ansible 3.0 and beyond, a collections primer

Basic Azure Application Gateway Monitoring

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Error: IMAGE_STATE_UNDEPLOYABLE with Packer and Azure

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Ansible 3.0 and beyond, a collections primer

Basic Azure Application Gateway Monitoring

Allowing Windows Subsystem for Linux to communicate with Hyper-V VMs

Error: IMAGE_STATE_UNDEPLOYABLE with Packer and Azure