Running Ansible on Windows

08 Apr 2014 Some times you just have to make do with what you have. So I considered this morning why is it as IT professional we are often told what tool we need to use to do our job. I mean does a carpenter get told what type of saw he need to use? My tool of the trade is a Mac, not because I’m an Apple f... Read more...

Podcasts I'm listening too

08 Apr 2014 For sometime I have been meaning to jot down some interesting, at least to me, podcast's that I listen to, with the recent complete re-install of my phone seemed like a good time to do this.As I work in tech the list is predominately tech focused for a few years it was the TWiT network that domi... Read more...

Solaris Vagrant Packer and the base box

16 Feb 2014 If you haven’t used Vagrant then go check it out. It’s certainly come a long way since the early days and expanded beyond just VirtualBox. Targeted early at developers its certainly a tool that has different uses to different folk, as a system admin I find it handy to test and build SOE’s, deplo... Read more...

Puppet 3 and Solaris 11 IPS

30 Sep 2012 A recent post Solaris Packages for Puppet 3.0.0-rc7, Facter 1.6.0 and Hiera 1.0.0 on a puppet mailing list caught my eye.While gems has a nifty little package management system of it's own,  it is possible be that your machines do not have direct access to the interent so&nbs... Read more...

OEL Handsfree install for Oracle VM Manager part 2

21 Jul 2012 So part one finished up with a Virtualbox VM , two blank disk and the OEL CD image in the virtual CD drive.Fair warning I have taken some liberty with technical preciseness of handsfree, but it's pretty close. If some knows how I can second commands to the gues... Read more...