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  • VMware Data Encryption At Rest

    Apr 13, 2018 encryption vsan vsphere
    VMware Data Encryption At Rest

    Encryption of data at rest is a requirement for many customers, with VMware hosted Virtual Machines (VMs) there are two ways to achieve this. VM data can be encrypted using vSAN whole-datastore encryption or using Storage Policy (VMcrypt). Both VM Encryption and vSAN Encryption require a Key Management Interoperability …

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  • vRealize Orchestrator NSX Plug-in Troubleshooting

    Feb 6, 2018 nsx vro
    vRealize Orchestrator NSX Plug-in Troubleshooting

    The NSX-V Plug-in for vRealize Orchestrator offers some great functionally, however creating custom workflows caused me some headaches. When building some custom workflows using the vRO API explorer there are inconsistencies, I’ve learned to not rely on the vRO API explorer for NSX plug-in documentation and …

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  • Controlling vSphere & NSX-V With Python

    May 15, 2017 nsx python
    Controlling vSphere & NSX-V With Python

    My former colleagues had made me aware of pyVmomi an open source library which VMware provide and mostly maintain for managing vSphere, so its here I shall start. Since then NSX for vSphere has also an open source library NSX RAML Client provided by VMware so I’ll then move to that. I am performing this learning …

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  • DynamoDB Python Test Environment with Cloud Formations

    Mar 31, 2017 aws dynamodb python
    DynamoDB Python Test Environment with Cloud Formations

    The goal of this post is to walk through the creation of a AWS test environment which I use to explore the Python SDK interactions with DyanmoDB. For learning I use the free tier and so used to create the environment as needed manually. After doing this once I decided to encapsulate the configuration in a Cloud …

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  • Simple REST API For DynamoDB Using Lambda

    Dec 29, 2016 aws dynamodb python lambda
    Simple REST API For DynamoDB Using Lambda

    My goal here is to setup a simple RESTful API which accepts GET and POST methods to trigger a Lambda Function to read and put information into DynamoDB. First we’ll create a test DynamoDB table and put some items into it, aws dynamodb create-table --table-name 'MyTable' --attribute-definitions …

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  • The DevOps Infrastructure Architect

    Dec 29, 2016 devops architecture
    The DevOps Infrastructure Architect

    One common critisism of Agile teams is they are architecturally weak and disconnected from the operational realities of complex enterprise environments. Traditional enterprise architecture processes are viewed focusing on delivering documentation rather than delivering a working solution, slow, and focussed on …

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  • Patching Windows EC2 Instances

    Dec 28, 2016 aws windows
    Patching Windows EC2 Instances

    Amazon EC2 Systems Manager is a collection of capabilities that helps you automate management tasks such as collecting system inventory, applying operating system (OS) patches, automating the creation of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), and configuring operating systems (OSs) and applications at scale. Amazon EC2 Systems …

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  • DynamoDB With Powershell

    Dec 20, 2016 aws dynamodb powershell
    DynamoDB With Powershell

    AWS dynamoDB is a really useful key-value store which is really easy to consume from scripts. However while the AWS Powershell module contains functions for ‘Managing Tables’ it does not contain functions for ‘Reading Data’ or ‘Modifying Data’. I had found Julian Biddle had written a …

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  • Setup VPC Peering With Ansible

    Nov 14, 2016 aws vpc ansible
    Setup VPC Peering With Ansible

    In this post I look at setting up AWS VPC peering using Ansible. To do this we will start simple and add complexity to our configuration, we will start with peering within a single account and then move to script across accounts. Local Peering I’ll start by configuring two VPCs within the same account a single …

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  • How To Use AWS CloudFormation With Ansible

    Nov 9, 2016 ansible cloudformation aws
    How To Use AWS CloudFormation With Ansible

    AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators an easy way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion. Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, …

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Darryl Cauldwell

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