Need to automate a VM? you need Ansible!
ArgoCD
Django
My preferred framework for building web apps
GitLab
My preferred git server and CI/CD system, either gitlab.com or self-hosted.
Helm
A good way to pull in external dependencies into Kubernetes For writing my own manifests I prefer to use Kustomize.
Hugo
My static site generator of choice, used to build my blog among other things.
JQ
A incredibly powerful tool for manipulating the heaps of JSON files and responses I interact with daily.
A lot of times I also use ijq1 instead, which is a interactive version of jq.
Kubernetes
I have run and am still running loads of Kubernetes clusters, mostly on-premise.
Kustomize
My prefered tool for writing and provisioning home-built manifests to [[kubernetes]]
MacOS
My operating system of choice on the client, usually on a MacBook Pro.
PowerShell
PowerShell holds a special place in my heart as it was the first ever tool I dived into deeply and used to automate my daily work.
To this day it runs a bunch of fundamental automations in my life.
Python
These days Python is my language of choice for both simple scripts and more complex backend applications, usually in combination with [[django]]
vCenter Cert Bundle
Errors connecting to vCenter or any ESXi server in the cluster without certificate errors?
- Get CA cert from the vCenter:
wget https://{{ YOUR VCENTER }}/certs/download.zip --no-check-certificate - Install where required