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Terraform Azure Provider Setup

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 Install Ubuntu 1804

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...

KVM Host High CPU Fix

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. ...

Dell XPS 15 (9560) Ubuntu 1804 Setup

I recently upgraded my Dell XPS (9560) to Ubuntu 1804 LTS from 1604 and I ran into a few issues along the way. This post may help others so I am documenting it here. Pre-Flight Prior to installing Ubuntu 1604 I upgraded the BIOS from Windows 10. Also in the BIOS settings I disabled secure...

rbenv Install openSUSE

rbenv is a utility for installing multiple ruby versions on a host machine. Using rbenv allows you to install ruby in a path you have ownership over so you can install gems without having to have sudo or root privileges. rbenv also allows you to target the exact ruby version in development...

Vagrant Libvirt Install openSUSE

I have recently started using openSUSE as my server platform of choice. This post will go over installing qemu-kvm and libvirt for use with Vagrant and the vagrant-libirt provider on openSUSE. For reference the following software will be used in this post. openSUSE - 15 Vagrant - 2.1.2 ...
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