Using Azure Runbooks to automate scale set operations with Powershell jobs

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 […]

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Using Ansible to Update ESXI VIB’s and manage vCenter at scale.

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

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Using Ansible to update Junos Device Configurations

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 Share this content:

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