I’m a massive fan of using Home Assistant for running all aspects of my “smart home” automation routines. This weekend I decided to put up some spare RGB light strips around my patio. In the span of about 1 hour, I’ve got a LED Strip solution that is entirely controlled by open source software, run …
Azure Powershell runbooks are cool. I’ve been exploring using them as a way to avoid using a dedicated VM for running simple PowerShell Scripts in Azure. I have a group of instances that are running from a dedicated Scale Set that I need to reboot nightly. It’s pretty easy to get this going. You can …
Using Azure Runbooks to automate scale set operations with Powershell jobs Read More »
Recently I’ve been using Ansible to push out updates to vSphere environments that have a lot of hosts, but no working installation of VMWare Update Manager available. During the creation of the below playbook, I found a few interesting caveats to using Ansible to manage your ESXI hosts and vCenter. To resolve this, I’ve created …
Using Ansible to Update ESXI VIB’s and manage vCenter at scale. Read More »