Super-Charged Cmdlet Aliases

It works like magic, but it works - Bring your aliasing to a whole other level!

 Posted on 2020-12-02  (Last modified on 2025-07-29)

Backstory I recently wrote a post about PowerShell Aliasing for the folks over at ScriptRunner. The one issue I had while researching for this post was this: You can not create a alias for a function and overwrite one of it’s parameters at the same time while keeping nice features like tab-complete. For a concrete example of this visit please look at the original post. At the end of the post I asked if anyone had a solution to this problem - and the internet delivered! [Read More]
PowerShell  productivity 

Bash Utilities In Powershell

Replacing common bash utilities in PowerShell

 Posted on 2020-09-20  (Last modified on 2025-07-29)

Whats the first thing coming to mind when seeing a command line? For most people it is Linux, be it Ubuntu, Debian or RedHat. And it is completely understandable. A big part of our industry has a background in Linux and sees it as the superior system for quick scripts and the like. In this series I want to challenge this notion. PowerShell can compete with, an in some cases outperform, the quick scripts and common daily tasks done in Linux shells. [Read More]
bash-to-powershell  powershell 

Vmware Tools Copy Files

 Posted on 2020-09-17  (Last modified on 2022-07-01)

Docs

Copy To Guest

$vm = Get-VM -Name TEST
Get-Item "X:\yourfile.txt" | Copy-VMGuestFile -Destination "c:\temp" -VM $vm -LocalToGuest -GuestUser "Administrator" -GuestPassword "Pa$$w0rd"

Copy From Guest

$vm = Get-VM -Name TEST
Copy-VMGuestFile -Source c:\yourfile.txt -Destination c:\temp\ -VM $vm -GuestToLocal -GuestUser "Administrator" -GuestPassword "Pa$$w0rd"
powershell  vmware 

Ansible VMware Connection Plugin & Become

 Posted on 2020-07-02  (Last modified on 2021-08-09)

When using VMware as the connection plugin to connect to remote hosts you commonly set two facts for username and password: ansible_vmware_tools_user: "mkamner" ansible_vmare_tools_password: "Super Secret PW" This will work just fine for windows and with many tasks on linux. However, if you want to use become: true on linux it will fail with the strangest error messages. For example: apt will fail, because it can’t acquire the lock file [Read More]
ansible  vmware 

GitLab

 Posted on 2020-01-01  (Last modified on 2024-06-10)

My preferred git server and CI/CD system, either gitlab.com or self-hosted.

slashpage-uses  gitlab 

Helm

 Posted on 2020-01-01  (Last modified on 2024-06-10)

A good way to pull in external dependencies into Kubernetes For writing my own manifests I prefer to use Kustomize.

slashpage-uses  helm 

JQ

 Posted on 2020-01-01  (Last modified on 2024-06-10)

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.

  1. https://sr.ht/~gpanders/ijq/ ↩︎

slashpage-uses  jq 

Kubernetes

 Posted on 2020-01-01  (Last modified on 2024-06-10)

I have run and am still running loads of Kubernetes clusters, mostly on-premise.

slashpage-uses  k8s 

Kustomize

 Posted on 2020-01-01  (Last modified on 2024-06-10)

My prefered tool for writing and provisioning home-built manifests to [[kubernetes]]

slashpage-uses  kustomize