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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 locally by me (no cloud required), and is very customizable. I’m using the following parts —
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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 import my PS1 runbook with the following cmdlet
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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 a playbook that does the following:
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Many times when working with Powershell Modules, I’m presented with an object that contains data that I want, but it’s embedded inside nested hash tables, or isn’t quite storing the data in a way that’s useful for me to work with.
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Lately I’ve been using Ansible to update configurations on my JunOS devices. Here’s a fun little script to get you started. It will print the configuration of the DHCP service on a JunOS device, then update the name-server DHCP option to something new. The following playbook uses the JunOS ansible role
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