I discovered a nice little trick to make working with Vagrant VMs
a little easier by utilizing the openssh config file to define
the SSH connection parameters for Vagrant VMs. This post will walk
you through getting it setup.
For reference the following software will be used in this post.
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Most of the labs I build are for learning purposes and I find that I
burn a lot of time doing boilerplate tasks and not actually
working on the feature(s) im trying to test.
I wanted to build a lab where I could chop and change device types
from the same vendor ie: Juniper vSRX and vMX...
StackStorm is IFTTT for ops.
Its original claim to fame was popularizing chat driven workflows
for ops know as ChatOps. In this post I will cover integrating ST2
with Slack to enable ChatOps.
Lab Environment
The ST2 instance connects out to Slack which is a SAAS application.
This means...
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...