StackStorm or as it is affectionately
known ST2 is marketed as an opensource IFTTT for ops. I like to think of
ST2 as glue for software allowing you to piece together simple tasks to
complex workflows to automate your infrastructure.
Lab Environment
For reference I am building this lab...
Writing down what I want to achieve helps me stay focused and keeps me from
getting distracted by all the shinny things in the world.
2019 Goals
Loose 20kgs
Family
Read 20 non-technical books
JNCIX SP
Azure solution architect
One post a week
Move to rails
Loose 20kgs
Over the...
I recently re-installed Ubuntu 1804 on my laptop and I though I would
give the PopOS desktop
theme from system76 a try.
The verdict? It's very very nice. Next time I do a re-install or get a new
laptop I think I will use PopOS which is based in Ubuntu anyway.
Side note: If a System76...
In this post I will build a Juniper vSRX3.0 for use with the
vagrant-libvirt provider. What is the vSRX3.0 you ask?
Good question! The first I heard about it was from
@MohsinulMalik on the Twitters.
Back to a FreeBSD image a la; no nested Windriver Linux, fast boot time and low CPU and RAM...
The Juniper operating system is known as Junos. The Juniper CLI is an application that is
used to manage, monitor and configure Juniper devices. The CLI is full of great features
to make managing them easier. This is a quick reference guide and not an exhaustive list
of features. Seek the...
Microsoft Azure is one of the worlds leading
cloud providers. While it is possible to point and click your way though the web interface
to manage your Azure environment that is not how I want to live my life. This post will
cover how to prepare your local development machine to enable
...
Terraform is an infrastructure as code tool from the
wonderful people at Hashicorp. Terraform makes it really enjoyable to manage infrastructure
on platforms such as AWS, Azure, VMware vSphere and OpenStack among many
others. This short post
will run through installing Terraform on Ubuntu...
A project I am currently working on requires me to configure Cisco ACI. I have not previously
had the opportunity to work with ACI and I had no access to a lab environment to prove
out my changes before implementing them into production. A while ago a heard about a service
Cisco is offering...
I run my labs on an Ubuntu 1604 host using KVM for the hypervisor and some of the network
VM images (Cisco CRS1000v, Juniper vMX, etc..) run with very high CPU. A recent thread on
Twitter helped me to find a solution to this problem so I will outline it here as it may
be helpful for others.
...
In this post I will cover how to create a Juniper vQFX Vagrant box for use with the
vagrant-libvirt provider.
With other Juniper VM's such as the vSRX and vMX there are some required steps to get the
KVM host prepped, these may be required for the vQFX also. I did not find any documentation
...
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