In a previous post, I covered a method to automatically generate DNS zones from an embedded YAML list. This wasn't the most useful on its own, only ensuring that forward and reverse DNS entries match each other (you'll be shocked by how many places it isn't!) - and we need a good way to simplify DNS administration with …

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Patching all of my random experiments took too much of my free time, so I automated it This is a pretty cheesy thing to do, but over the years it became more and more time-consuming to maintain all the different deployed workloads and infrastructure. Requirements With all system design, it's best to consider all …

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The challenge with build automation is too much convenience Think about it. If it's easy to compose and deploy workloads, it's also easy to develop sprawl, and a good system designer would have methods in place to mitigate that. In a previous post I covered how to deploy vSphere VMs with Ansible and the Automation …

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