Ansible 3.0 and beyond, a collections primerBackground 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 ...Apr 4, 2021 路 6 min readautomatingops.com
Basic Azure Application Gateway MonitoringWhat 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...Mar 28, 2021 路 7 min readautomatingops.com
Allowing Windows Subsystem for Linux to communicate with Hyper-V VMsHowdy! 馃憢 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 ...3RDMMar 13, 2021 路 4 min readautomatingops.com
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 ...Dec 13, 2018 路 3 min readautomatingops.com