Vmware Tools Copy Files
Posted on 2020-09-17
(Last modified on 2022-07-01)
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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"
Hello World
Who am I and what to expect on this blog
Posted on 2020-09-13
(Last modified on 2025-02-25)
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
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IANA To openSSL Ciphers
Posted on 2020-03-07
Handy table to map IANA IDs of ciphers to their openSSL IDs used in web server configurations,
for example [[nginx]] ssl_ciphers
or proxy_ssl_ciphers
https://testssl.sh/openssl-iana.mapping.html
Ansible
Posted on 2020-01-01
(Last modified on 2024-06-10)
Need to automate a VM?
you need Ansible!
ArgoCD
Posted on 2020-01-01
(Last modified on 2024-06-10)
Django
Posted on 2020-01-01
(Last modified on 2024-06-10)
My preferred framework for building web apps
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.
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.
Hugo
Posted on 2020-01-01
(Last modified on 2024-06-10)
My static site generator of choice, used to build my blog among other things.
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 ijq
instead, which is a interactive version of 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.
Kustomize
Posted on 2020-01-01
(Last modified on 2024-06-10)
My prefered tool for writing and provisioning home-built manifests to [[kubernetes]]
MacOS
Posted on 2020-01-01
(Last modified on 2024-06-10)
My operating system of choice on the client, usually on a MacBook Pro.
PowerShell
Posted on 2020-01-01
(Last modified on 2024-06-10)
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
Posted on 2020-01-01
(Last modified on 2024-06-10)
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
Posted on 2019-05-13
(Last modified on 2022-07-01)
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
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