https://taylorvories.com/articles/ Recent content in Articles on Taylor Vories Hugo -- gohugo.io Mon, 20 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://taylorvories.com/articles/packer-hcl-windows/ Mon, 20 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://taylorvories.com/articles/packer-hcl-windows/ The code I learn by example, so see my github repo for the full source code! https://github.com/tvories/packer-vsphere-hcl Packer, as of 1.5, now supports HCL. This gives it a lot more flexibility over regular JSON and makes it very similar to terraform. There aren’t a lot of great examples of how to convert packer from json to HCL, though, and practically zero that leverage vsphere-iso as the builder. Most of the HCL example code for packer is written for aws. https://taylorvories.com/articles/ansible-realmd/ Fri, 28 Jul 2017 11:29:26 -0700 https://taylorvories.com/articles/ansible-realmd/ Ansible is a great tool to automate everything in your environment. This is an example of how I set up an Ansible playbook for newly deployed Linux server. Overview A while back, I was able to get my Ubuntu servers to join my Active Directory domain thanks to Wolfhaven’s excellent blog post on the topic. It was the most native way I could find to get the Active Directory integration to work. https://taylorvories.com/articles/raspi-realmd/ Tue, 08 Nov 2016 17:56:33 -0700 https://taylorvories.com/articles/raspi-realmd/ I’ve been working with Ansible lately so I’ve been trying to automate everything I can. I work with Linux systems in AD, so I’ve been trying to figure out a way to auto deploy and join to my domain. Since I had a few Pis laying around, I decided to set them up on my domain as well. I will also include a link to my Ansible playbook that automates this process.