vCloud HCL generator for Terraform
vCloud Director is one of the VMware products which help service providers with the public cloud delivery. As with the most VMware products, developers can communicate with it by API. Continue reading
“Unable to expire password for root” – Debian 9 in vCloud Director
Debian 9 was released on 17th of June 2017, and for me, it was not only the information about the arriving upgrades. Also, it was the sign of the new Continue reading
Separating Providers from the Terraform core
Terraform is my favorite tool for infrastructure building and managing. Although I use it mostly for the vSphere and vCloud Director environments (you can see more here), I know that Continue reading
Cannot customize CentOS on vCloud Director
Last week I spent some time creating and updating vCloud Director templates. It’s a very long process if you want to do everything perfectly. You know, one mistake and you Continue reading
How to create credentials in Jenkins
Every system, application or another solution has some authentication providers. Sometimes it’s a local password storage, sometimes administrator can implement AD (or another LDAP), Radius, OAuth etc. Nobody can reach Continue reading
Jenkins has stopped working after upgrade to 2.54
Jenkins upgrade is very easy – you just need to use the package manager and run one command. After the update, Jenkins processes are restarted and the system is ready Continue reading
Using Terraform to deploy VM with an additional disk in vSphere
Some time ago I wrote a post, which explains how to deploy VM in vSphere using a Terraform. It’s something like a universal Terraform configuration for vSphere. You don’t need Continue reading
PowerCLI in the PowerShell Gallery – how to and why?
PowerCLI is the best managing and automation tool for vSphere environments. I cannot imagine my work without this fantastic thing. The only one inconvenience I see in the PowerCLI is an Continue reading
Alias for Connect-VIServer arguments – PowerShell functions
I think most of you agree with me when I say that typing “Connect-VIServer -Server name-of-server” is very annoying. Especially when you have many vCenter Servers to manage. First thing Continue reading
Ansible MySQL role – creating databases and users
When you have only one local database server dedicated to your application, there are no problems with creating a database and a user. But the problem appears when we want Continue reading