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    • How to Use PowerShell Tasks in Azure DevOps Pipelines
      Starwind • powershell azure devops • • Oksana  

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    • After the Initial Ecstasy: VMware Project Pacific
      Starwind • vmware vsan vsphere devops kubernetes vmworld • • Oksana  

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    • Upcoming Local and Online Events - Dallas / Fort Worth
      Mango Happenings • devops spicecorps spicecorps dfw dfw spicecorps vmug dfw vmug vmware events • • NetworkNerd  

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      What? No one needs their carpet cleaned?
    • Using Make for SysAdmin Work
      IT Discussion • devops ansible terraform make idempotent • • stacksofplates  

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    • Saltstack and Brew Casks
      IT Discussion • apple salt devops osx casks • • DustinB3403  

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      @shortstack said in Saltstack and Brew Casks: @DustinB3403 i am also wondering what the workaround for this issue is, re: salt minion executing brew installs. did you ever figure out a clean way to get brew working, maybe runas a different user? I haven't had the chance to get back into this, other more pressing issues so I just went on with my day. Sorry
    • Terraform resource deployment automatization with Azure DevOps – Part 2
      Starwind • azure devops terraform • • Oksana  

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    • Automate Terraform deployment of resources with Azure DevOps – Part 1
      Starwind • azure devops terraform • • Oksana  

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    • Orchestrate and control many web sites
      IT Discussion • devops web orchestration sites • • Emad R  

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      @JaredBusch said in Orchestrate and control many web sites: @scottalanmiller said in Orchestrate and control many web sites: @Emad-R Exactly, that's more than running your own. $2.95 PER WEBSITE is quite expensive. Run your own and you can do it for $.35 per site! No you cannot. Not for a single site or even a dozen. $5 vultr instance / 12 sites comes in at $0.42 That doesn't count the labor to maintain, patch, make resiliant (excluding content related development, etc). While certainly not expensive, it is also certainly not $0.35. Ah, but don't forget, when we did a labour study we found that dealing with your own install had lower labour than when dealing with a shared instance because you don't get raw access. So we lowered labour. So my numbers were obviously without labour, but so were the shared numbers. If you include labour both go up, but the shared goes up more from what we found in testing.
    • How to implement DevOps with Azure?
      Starwind • microsoft azure devops datacenter • • Oksana  

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    • Ansible for MS SQL Server on Windows
      IT Discussion • windows server devops ansible ms sql server xp • • mlnews  

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      It's kind of hard to help without seeing the playbook/role you created.
    • Deploying an NGinx Reverse Proxy with SSL on a LAMP Server with SaltStack
      IT Discussion • nginx saltstack ssl devops salt lets encrypt reverse proxy web server tls proxy https lamp https2 • • scottalanmiller  

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      This way you can share the config(s) under conf.d between multiple machines using the same roles (or whatever Salt calls them) and have different main NGINX server settings.
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      DebOps - A collection of Ansible playbooks
      IT Discussion • devops ansible debops • • Alex Sage  

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      @drybjed welcome to the community!!
    • Minimize conditionals with Ansible
      IT Discussion • linux devops ansible roles conditionals • • stacksofplates  

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    • Set up Bind server with Ansible
      IT Discussion • linux centos 7 devops ansible bind • • stacksofplates  

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      So I also realized that if you have even a small number of records, a dictionary will become super long. So you can compact the dictionary like this: records: ns1: {forward: 10.1.30.11, type: A, last: 11, rev: 30.1.10.in-addr.arpa.} ansible: {forward: 10.1.30.5, type: A, last: 5, rev: 30.1.10.in-addr.arpa.} So while the other way may be easier to read, this saves a TON of space.
    • Install NextCloud 11 on Fedora 25 with SaltStack
      IT Discussion • linux fedora scott alan miller nextcloud saltstack devops salt mariadb fedora 25 nextcloud 11 redis sam salt administration • • scottalanmiller  

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      @jaredbusch said in Install NextCloud 11 on Fedora 25 with SaltStack: @scottalanmiller why install a proxy when Apaches here and working what is the benefit to having a proxy on the same server. Let’s Encrypt perfectly with Apache Security and flexibility typically. Here is the admitted marketing material from Nginx on security: "Security and anonymity – By intercepting requests headed for your backend servers, a reverse proxy server protects their identities and acts as an additional defense against security attacks. It also ensures that multiple servers can be accessed from a single record locator or URL regardless of the structure of your local area network."
    • Building a LAMP Server on Fedora 25 with SaltStack
      IT Discussion • linux fedora saltstack mysql apache salt devops mariadb php fedora 25 lamp • • scottalanmiller  

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    • Normal Forms of Systems Administration
      IT Discussion • devops system administration sam system administration • • scottalanmiller  

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      @dafyre said in Normal Forms of Systems Administration: @scottalanmiller said in Normal Forms of Systems Administration: @Tim_G said in Normal Forms of Systems Administration: So if 4th is strictly using RSAT... would 5th be full automation using SCCM, SCVMM, Orchestrator, and App Controller? Yes, I believe so. Those would be tools in the Microsoft toolset for that. They tend to take a very different approach than many of their competitors and it's been a while since I've used it. Not sure if SCCM goes all of the way to defined state or just really heavily automated forth form. But I think you can get to that state. I believe it is properly state defined (fifth form) but not code defined like most of the alternatives. I think I got lost in all the clutter... but why do you separate Remote GUI from Remote CLI ? Essentially "automatable interface" vs non-automatable interface. Not that GUIs cannot be automated, but effectively they cannot be.
    • Understanding State Machines for DevOps-Style System Administration
      IT Discussion • saltstack devops salt system administration ansible automation chef puppet state machine cfengine • • scottalanmiller  

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    • Create a Linux Swap File in SaltStack
      IT Discussion • linux ubuntu centos fedora rhel cloud computing saltstack suse opensuse debian devops salt iaas sds swap sdi • • scottalanmiller  

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    • Opinions: Ansible vs. SaltStack
      IT Discussion • saltstack devops salt ansible automation • • scottalanmiller  

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      @pmoncho said in Opinions: Ansible vs. SaltStack: @scottalanmiller What would be the sense of purchasing a solid open source project like SaltStack? Being OS, VMware can add their own developers to the project and still integrate it with their products without the cost of purchasing the company. I think they're just trying to stay relevant. Like with Harbor, Tanzu, etc.
    • How Much Data Do You Have
      IT Discussion • devops backups • • scottalanmiller  

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      @wirestyle22 said in How Much Data Do You Have: @BRRABill said in How Much Data Do You Have: @scottalanmiller said in How Much Data Do You Have: @wirestyle22 said in How Much Data Do You Have: @scottalanmiller said in How Much Data Do You Have: @wirestyle22 said in How Much Data Do You Have: @scottalanmiller said in How Much Data Do You Have: @wirestyle22 said in How Much Data Do You Have: @scottalanmiller said in How Much Data Do You Have: @wirestyle22 said in How Much Data Do You Have: About 20 TB total What kind of data? Security Camera videos, Office Data, High Res Imaging (City Planning), Marketing, Documentation, the list goes on You take backups of security camera video? It's body worn cameras for police And those are backed up? they have to be. they can be referred to for decades Those two things are not related. Have to would be a compliance question. Being referred to for decades is about storage, probably archival, not backup. You always discus the differences in these terms, but what @wirestyle22 mentioned would be a good thing to start a topic with and do some real world discussions. It would be difficult because I'm still learning everything here. There are so many sites and they are all using different things. A lot of alternate configurations. What I meant was ... something like you suggested. Not necessrily YOUR scenario, but sa smilar one. Security footage that needs to be maintained for 10 years. What kind of system is @scottalanmiller talking about...
    • Backups in the DevOps World
      IT Discussion • backup disaster recovery devops system administration backups • • scottalanmiller  

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      It's true that you can make stateless systems without DevOps tooling and approaches. But the nature and assumptions of those systems is that you cannot. Just letting arbitrary logins (even of administrators) can undermine that. One of the beauties of the pure DevOps model is the lack of logins. Much like functional programming.
    • What is DevOps?
      IT Discussion • devops software defined infrastructure software defined systems • • scottalanmiller  

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      @stacksofplates said in What is DevOps?: @scottalanmiller said in What is DevOps?: @stacksofplates said in What is DevOps?: @scottalanmiller said in What is DevOps?: @stacksofplates said in What is DevOps?: @scottalanmiller said in What is DevOps?: @stacksofplates said in What is DevOps?: @scottalanmiller said in What is DevOps?: @stacksofplates said in What is DevOps?: @scottalanmiller said in What is DevOps?: Two very common SDI tools are Ansible and Salt, but two that are extremely different. Ansible works purely through agents that run on individual servers. Salt uses a central console to control agents. This oversimplifies both, but gives us an idea of the diversity in the way that different systems work. A common way for smaller shops to work with Ansible is to install agents locally and those agents do nothing more than pull their own configurations from a central Git repository. In this way, in order to manage individual systems, all that needs to be done is for the correct state definition to be stored in the right Git repo. Ansible handles the rest. It looks for updates and applies them when they appear. This is a pure "pull" structure. Salt works differently. The Salt Master can push commands, almost instantly, to Salt Minions (endpoints.) With salt you can issue traditional commands in real time and see the responses in real time on the master. This makes Salt very powerful for monitoring, in addition to control. State configurations are stored on the Salt Master, rather than on a separate change repository, and when applied can be pushed out instantly to all nodes that are currently online, no need to wait for a polling interval. This is a pure "push" structure. Ansible is all push through SSH (they have some kind of pull mechanism but I don't think anyone uses it), it doesn't use any agents at all. You can also run commands directly with Ansible. Ad hoc commands are a big help with Ansible, it fixes the weird workarounds you have to use to get sudo to work with remote SSH commands. Now you just run ansible host -m shell -a "whatever you need to do" -b -K One of their big selling points is that you can do pure push, all agent, no server It doesn't use any agents at all. It's all Python. There is no "server" like with Puppet (there is a server in the sense that there is one or multiple machines you do everything from), but there is a machine(s) you push from to other machines. Servers are typically pull, not push. No. Agents are pull. The server holds the configs and the agent checks in and pulls the config. Ansible is push and specifically states that on their website. Not necessarily. Salt is an agent but push. The agent doesn't pull. At least not by default. It's the exception then. Chef and Puppet both pull. I really like the pull system for CM. I use Ansible for orchestration. Yup. The push is their huge selling point. No other major player does it. And no open ports either. Doesn't need SSH which is huge. How does the agent know to interact? Just heartbeat every few seconds? Open connection. They always talk.
    • Executing Basic Commands with Salt
      IT Discussion • salt devops sam salt open salt open • • scottalanmiller  

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    • Adding a Salt Minion to a Salt Master
      IT Discussion • linux centos open source centos 7 saltstack salt devops sam salt open salt open • • scottalanmiller  

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      New Commands are: The salt-key command is used to manage all of the keys on the master. To list the keys that are on the master: salt-key -L The keys that have been rejected, accepted, and pending acceptance are listed. The easiest way to accept the minion key is to accept all pending keys: salt-key -A
    • Installing a Salt Minion on CentOS 7
      IT Discussion • linux centos centos 7 saltstack salt devops salt minion sam salt open • • scottalanmiller  

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    • Installing Salt Master
      IT Discussion • linux saltstack salt devops sam salt open • • scottalanmiller  

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      @tim_g said in Installing Salt Master: @scottalanmiller said in Installing Salt Master: Now we can easily get Salt Master installed. cd /tmp; curl -L https://bootstrap.saltstack.com -o install_salt.sh sh install_salt.sh -M What's the difference between installing it like you mention above, or via the repository apt-get install salt-master for example? https://repo.saltstack.com/#ubuntu Ubuntu because that's all I have available right now for testing, in case anyone has the urge to point that out. It's also the same for Fedora: https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/installation/fedora.html But that's besides the point. In theory it handles grabbing the repos under the hood, but in a more universal way. And handles some distros that dont' necessarily have repos.
    • What DevOps Tool Do You Prefer?
      IT Discussion • saltstack devops system administration ansible chef puppet • • scottalanmiller  

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      http://blog.takipi.com/deployment-management-tools-chef-vs-puppet-vs-ansible-vs-saltstack-vs-fabric/
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      Sovereign
      IT Discussion • open source devops system administration ansible sovereign • • Alex Sage  

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      Very interesting, will check that out.
    • Red Hat Open Sources Ansible Galaxy
      News • linux open source devops red hat ansible • • stacksofplates  

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      @scottalanmiller said in Red Hat Open Sources Ansible Galaxy: That's awesome. Now just waiting on Tower, too. Thought exactly the same: Free/open Tower would be awesome.