I wanted to watch a PluralSight course while on a flight without internet access. This might well be against the PluralSight terms and conditions so I don't recommend doing this. I used a recent version of youtube-dl and used a recent version of... » More
Hashicorp Vault supports several backends for secret storage. I was creating a test Vault to play with PKI certificate generation and started with installing Zookeeper After download the Vault binary and extracting it to /usr/local/sbin/vault, I... » More
I didn't find much in the way of examples online for using Terraform against VMWare. So here is the .tf config that worked for me: provider "vsphere" { user = "jonny@dev" password = "CHANGEME!" vsphere_server = "192.168.1.2"... » More
There have been some changes to the NetApp menu and it took me a few minutes to find the location to apply export policies to a volume. It is currently (version 9.1) found under the 'Junction Paths' menu tab for the SVM. The 'Export Policies' are... » More
I'm just recording some notes here on the steps I took to run a Minecraft (Spigot) server on a CentOS 7 server. Install Pre-requisites yum install git python-twisted-core python-psutil python-urwid python-twisted-web screen Get... » More
Courtesy of Pete in work. To enable hostname auto completion in Bash, do the following: dig pop @dns.server.tld axfr | awk '$4 ~ /\yA\y/ && gsub(/.$/,"",$1) {print $1}' > ~/.hosts If you would prefer to filter out hosts e.g. dev and... » More
The default user and password combination for a Dell iDRAC interface is root / calvin It can be manually reset when logging in to the web interface but when doing many machines at once and many actions at the same time the racadm tool is handy. To... » More
Install the prerequisites. Below works for Debian-based distros such as Ubuntu/Mint: apt-get install libzookeeper-mt-dev Install python libraries: pip install zkpython pykeeper Example code below shows making a connection, getting the names of some... » More
Ubuntu 18.04 includes check-mk in the repository version but it is an older version 1.2.8 (at the time of writing). Download check mk raw (get the latest stable URL from the website) : wget... » More
In the update from iDRAC 8 to iDRAC 9 it has been infuriating searching the 'Storage' menu only to discover that the storage is managed under 'Configuration > Storage Configuration' I'm convinced the user experience could be better! At the very... » More
I wanted to watch a PluralSight course while on a flight without internet access. This might well be against the PluralSight terms and conditions so I don't recommend doing this. I used a recent version of youtube-dl and used a recent version of... » More
