Usually you optimize your Windows base images in a VMware vSphere environment by using VMware OS Optimization Tool. The VMware OS Optimization Tool helps in preparing and optimizing Windows and Windows Server systems for use with VMware Horizon. In DevOps-World…
Usually when you read about configuration automation of Windows with Ansible, most blog posts talk about connecting Ansible to Windows using WinRM. WinRM is a Windows specific Remote Management protocol. On the other hand most information about Ansible and configuration…
Usually Windows 11 needs to find a TPM to successfully install. If you want to install Windows 11 for example in a VM in a virtualized environment then you are auto of luck; except the virtualized environment like VMware vSphere…
on non-english versions of Windows the local admin group has different spelling. If you have a task which is use win_group_membership module in Ansible to add users to local admin group you usually have to provide the correct group name.…
For several projects we use a combination between Gitea and Drone for our CI/CD pipelines. In those case Gitea and Drone are behind Traefik as an revers proxy, which is responsible to automatically renew Letsencrypt SSL certificates. Lately Letsencrypt has…
Terraform is a tool to create virtual machines. It is usually not used to configure and manage them. Ansible is a tool to configure and manage virtual machines. To do this, Ansible will need an inventory file. Since Terraform was…
Azure resources can be moved to a new subscription, or across regions. This can be accomplished by clicking through the Azure portal, but can be also automated using the azure-cli. Both the source group and the target group are locked…
OpenSSH is the open-source version of the Secure Shell (SSH) tools used by administrators of Linux and other non-Windows for cross-platform management of remote systems. OpenSSH has been added to Windows (as of autumn 2018), and is included in Windows…
Traefik is an open-source Edge Router that makes publishing your services a fun and easy experience. It receives requests on behalf of your system and finds out which components are responsible for handling them. The following code snipped is a docker-compose file to…