Late last year, I decided that I would try to automate the deployment of the NetApp Virtual Simulator. The organization I work for needed a method to easily and consistently deploy the simulator for customer demos and workshop sessions. Fortunately for me, Chef had already produced a cookbook that did exactly this, although I did run into a few issues getting it setup, which is why this blog post exists.… Read the rest
Bootstrapping the Chef Windows Client Through vCenter Orchestrator
Over the past few weeks, our team has been talking internally about Configuration Management and why we need to get it implemented. This is an important step in the evolution of our IT Infrastructure Management and is something that every serious shop should consider. We have a ton of deployment scripts written in PowerShell, however we had no way to track Configuration Drift and have succumbed to the Snowflake Syndrome.… Read the rest