All Posts in Category “Explanation”
Back to Post Categories · RSS Feed for this category- 17 Apr 2024 - Tracking EC2 Instances used by EKS with AWS CLI
- 15 Apr 2024 - Tracking ENIs used by EKS with AWS CLI
- 1 Mar 2024 - Linting your Markdown Files
- 5 Feb 2024 - Using NAT Instances on AWS with Pulumi
- 22 Jan 2024 - Using SSH with the Pulumi Docker Provider
- 3 Jan 2024 - Selectively Replacing Resources with Pulumi
- 18 Dec 2023 - Dynamically Enabling the Azure CLI with Direnv
- 15 Dec 2023 - Conditional Git Configuration
- 11 Dec 2023 - Automatically Transforming Git URLs
- 11 Sep 2023 - Assigning Tags by Default on AWS with Pulumi
- 21 Sep 2022 - Referencing Configuration Values in Pulumi YAML
- 6 Sep 2022 - Managing AWS Key Pairs with Pulumi and Go
- 9 Aug 2022 - Revisiting X.509 Certificates in Kubeconfig Files
- 12 May 2022 - Fine-Tuning Control Plane Access with Cluster API
- 21 Jun 2021 - Kubernetes Port Names and Terminating HTTPS Traffic on AWS
- 30 Nov 2020 - Assigning Node Labels During Kubernetes Cluster Bootstrapping
- 8 Oct 2020 - Considerations for using IaC with Cluster API
- 1 Jun 2020 - Using Unison Across Linux, macOS, and Windows
- 23 Apr 2020 - Using External Etcd with Cluster API on AWS
- 22 Apr 2020 - Using Existing AWS Security Groups with Cluster API
- 12 Apr 2020 - Using Paw to Launch an EC2 Instance via API Calls
- 10 Apr 2020 - Using Postman to Launch an EC2 Instance via API Calls
- 4 Apr 2020 - Making File URLs Work Again in Firefox
- 26 Mar 2020 - HA Kubernetes Clusters on AWS with Cluster API v1alpha3
- 13 Mar 2020 - Configuring Kustomize Transformers for Cluster API
- 8 Mar 2020 - Modifying Visual Studio Code's Bracketing Behavior
- 5 Mar 2020 - HA Kubernetes Clusters on AWS with Cluster API v1alpha2
- 27 Feb 2020 - Region and Endpoint Match in AWS API Requests
- 19 Feb 2020 - Retrieving the Kubeconfig for a Cluster API Workload Cluster
- 12 Nov 2019 - Using Kustomize with Cluster API Manifests
- 29 Oct 2019 - Programmatically Creating Kubernetes Manifests
- 16 Oct 2019 - Using Kustomize with Kubeadm Configuration Files
- 26 Sep 2019 - Exploring Cluster API v1alpha2 Manifests
- 9 Sep 2019 - Consuming Pre-Existing AWS Infrastructure with Cluster API
- 5 Sep 2019 - Highly Available Kubernetes Clusters on AWS with Cluster API
- 15 Aug 2019 - Reconstructing the Join Command for Kubeadm
- 16 Apr 2019 - Using Kubeadm to Add New Control Plane Nodes with AWS Integration
- 1 Mar 2019 - Advanced AMI Filtering with JMESPath
- 18 Feb 2019 - Kubernetes, Kubeadm, and the AWS Cloud Provider
- 1 Feb 2019 - Scraping Envoy Metrics Using the Prometheus Operator
- 19 Dec 2018 - Running Fedora on my Mac Pro
- 29 Nov 2018 - Supercharging my CLI
- 29 Oct 2018 - More on Setting up etcd with Kubeadm
- 20 Oct 2018 - Validating RAML Files Using Docker
- 27 Sep 2018 - A Markdown-to-PDF Workflow on Linux
- 13 Sep 2018 - Running the gcloud CLI in a Docker Container
- 1 Sep 2018 - Better XMind-GNOME Integration
- 22 Aug 2018 - Populating New Namespaces Using Heptio Ark
- 20 Aug 2018 - Troubleshooting TLS Certificates
- 19 Jul 2018 - Cloning All Repositories in a GitHub Organization
- 16 Jul 2018 - Additive Loops with Ansible and Jinja2
- 28 Jun 2018 - More Handy CLI Tools for JSON
- 12 Jun 2018 - Examining X.509 Certificates Embedded in Kubeconfig Files
- 11 Jun 2018 - Using Variables in AWS Tags with Terraform
- 8 Jun 2018 - A Quadruple-Provider Vagrant Environment
- 23 May 2018 - Quick Post: Parsing AWS Instance Data with JQ
- 24 Jan 2018 - An Update on Using Docker Machine with Vagrant
- 27 Nov 2017 - A Sample Makefile for Creating Blog Articles
- 23 Oct 2017 - A Sample Makefile for Publishing Blog Articles
- 18 Sep 2017 - Some Q&A About the Migration to Hugo
- 30 Aug 2017 - A Brief Look at VMware's Three Cloud Approaches
- 26 May 2017 - Bastion Hosts and Custom SSH Configurations
- 8 May 2017 - Using a Makefile with Markdown Documents
- 19 Jan 2017 - Plain Text Productivity Redux
- 21 Dec 2016 - Opening Web Internet Location Files on Ubuntu
- 20 Oct 2016 - Vagrant-Photon OS Bug and Workaround
- 5 Oct 2016 - A Triple-Provider Vagrant Environment
- 30 Jun 2016 - OVS Integration with Debian Network Scripts
- 16 Jun 2016 - Configuring Linux Policy Routing using Ansible
- 21 Mar 2016 - Vagrant, Ubuntu "Wily Werewolf," and Networking
- 14 Jan 2016 - An Improved Way to use YAML with Vagrant
- 17 Dec 2015 - Using Cloud-Init to Register an Instance into Consul
- 16 Dec 2015 - Modifying OpenStack Security Groups with Terraform
- 11 Dec 2015 - Using SSH Multiplexing
- 4 Dec 2015 - One Use Case for an SSH Bastion Host
- 23 Nov 2015 - Bootstrapping Cloud Instances into Ansible
- 21 Nov 2015 - Using an SSH Bastion Host
- 25 Jun 2015 - VLAN Trunking with Cumulus Linux
- 9 Jun 2015 - Automatic Ansible Inventory with Vagrant
- 8 Jun 2015 - Using Vagrant to Help Learn Ansible
- 1 Jun 2015 - Some Cumulus Linux Networking Concepts
- 26 May 2015 - Bootstrapping Servers into Ansible
- 23 Apr 2015 - Ubuntu, cloud-init, and OpenStack Heat
- 8 Jan 2015 - Converting URLs to Jekyll References
- 21 Nov 2014 - Removing OVS Configuration Settings
- 22 Oct 2014 - Multi-Machine Vagrant with YAML
- 22 Aug 2014 - A Heat Template for Docker Containers
- 18 Jul 2014 - Fix for Strange Issue Booting KVM Guests
- 16 Jul 2014 - Learning NSX, Part 15: NSX Gateways, Gateway Services, and Logical Routers
- 20 Jun 2014 - Learning NSX, Part 14: Using Logical Routing
- 2 May 2014 - Another Look at an OpenStack Heat Template
- 28 Apr 2014 - Learning NSX, Part 13: Revisiting Logical Networking
- 21 Mar 2014 - A Follow Up on Linux Network Namespaces
- 12 Mar 2014 - Learning NSX, Part 11: Reviewing OpenStack Integration Basics
- 19 Feb 2014 - Using Curl to Interact with a RESTful API
- 20 Dec 2013 - Reducing the Friction: Training a Spam Filter
- 18 Dec 2013 - Managing Open vSwitch with Puppet
- 17 Dec 2013 - Updating Ubuntu Cloud Archive Support with Puppet
- 5 Dec 2013 - Learning NVP, Part 8: An Update on the NVP to NSX Transition
- 22 Nov 2013 - An Update on Using GRE Tunnels with Open vSwitch
- 1 Nov 2013 - Learning NVP, Part 7: Handling the NVP to NSX Transition
- 21 Oct 2013 - Managing SSH Authorized Keys with Puppet
- 14 Oct 2013 - Installing Open vSwitch on Ubuntu with Puppet
- 10 Oct 2013 - Using Puppet to Configure Ubuntu to use Apt-Cacher-NG
- 4 Oct 2013 - Using Puppet for Ubuntu Cloud Archive Support
- 10 Sep 2013 - Adjusting VNC Console Access via Libvirt XML
- 19 Jul 2013 - Reducing the Friction: Processing E-Mail, Part 2
- 21 Jun 2013 - Reducing the Friction: Processing E-Mail
- 14 Jun 2013 - Reducing the Friction: Using Keyboard Shortcuts
- 7 Jun 2013 - Reducing the Friction: Automating File Management
- 31 May 2013 - Reducing the Friction: BBEdit to MarsEdit
- 30 May 2013 - A Use Case for Policy Routing with KVM and Open vSwitch
- 21 May 2013 - Learning NVP, Part 1: High-Level Architecture
- 15 May 2013 - Examining Open vSwitch Traffic Patterns
- 8 Feb 2013 - Modifying Virtual User Resources in Puppet
- 7 Feb 2013 - Exploring RHEL-OVS Integrations
- 23 Jan 2013 - How I Build the Technology Short Takes
- 23 Oct 2012 - Why Mess Around with libvirt?
- 11 Oct 2012 - Managing Your E-mail Inbox
- 4 Oct 2012 - Some Insight into Open vSwitch Configuration
- 21 Aug 2012 - Working with KVM Guests
- 24 Jul 2012 - Getting Hiera Working
- 9 Jul 2012 - Updated Multi-OS Puppet Configuration
- 5 Jul 2012 - Using Puppet with Multiple Operating Systems
- 22 Dec 2011 - OTV and VXLAN Layer 3 Connectivity Compared
- 7 Dec 2011 - Revisiting VXLAN and Layer 3 Connectivity
- 2 Dec 2011 - Examining VXLAN
- 30 Nov 2011 - VXLAN and Layer 3 Connectivity
- 25 Nov 2011 - Problem with VMXNET3 Driver
- 21 Nov 2011 - Some OSS with my Mac, Part 2: Unison
- 18 Nov 2011 - Some OSS with my Mac, Part 1: Synergy
- 12 Nov 2011 - vSphere HA and vApps
- 8 Oct 2011 - Formatting RTFs with TextSoap
- 22 Sep 2011 - Hidden VAAI Command
- 25 Aug 2011 - Looking Again at VASA
- 12 Aug 2011 - A Deeper Look at VASA
- 23 Jun 2011 - Using GNU Screen with SSH
- 12 May 2011 - Stretched Clusters, Distance vMotion and L2 Adjacency
- 27 Apr 2011 - VMware ESXi Local Disks Showing as Remote
- 20 Apr 2011 - Connecting Cisco Catalyst 2960-S to Nexus 5010
- 25 Mar 2011 - Installing ESXi though UCSM KVM via RDC on OS X
- 20 Dec 2010 - Using VPLEX and Data Replication Together
- 2 Dec 2010 - VLAN Trunking Between Nexus 5010 and Dell PowerConnect Switches
- 1 Nov 2010 - SIOC Event with EMC MirrorView
- 28 Oct 2010 - RecoverPoint and VAAI Interoperability
- 13 Sep 2010 - Reverting Project Behavior in OmniFocus
- 20 Aug 2010 - Fixing Inactive New Paths on an EMC CLARiiON
- 19 Aug 2010 - vMotion Layer 2 Adjacency Requirement
- 18 Aug 2010 - Storage vMotion with RDMs
- 12 Jul 2010 - vMotion Practicality
- 7 Jun 2010 - A Deeper Look at VPLEX
- 17 May 2010 - A Quick Look at VPLEX and VMware SRM
- 2 May 2010 - My Current Getting Things Done Setup
- 20 Apr 2010 - Am I Understanding RoCE Correctly?
- 21 Mar 2010 - How NIV and FCoE Play Together
- 16 Mar 2010 - Understanding Network Interface Virtualization
- 5 Mar 2010 - VMware ESX, EMC CLARiiON Arrays, and Multiple Protocols
- 4 Feb 2010 - Using IP-Based Storage with VMware vSphere on Cisco UCS
- 31 Jan 2010 - EMC Celerra Optimizations for VMware on NFS
- 13 Jan 2010 - Resetting the Root Password on VMware ESX 4.0
- 11 Jan 2010 - A Couple GeekTool Scripts
- 2 Dec 2009 - What is SR-IOV?
- 27 Nov 2009 - Understanding NPIV and NPV
- 3 Nov 2009 - FCoE and VLAN Trunking on Nexus 5000
- 30 Oct 2009 - VMware HA, VMware FT, and OS Clustering
- 4 Oct 2009 - VMware Lab Manager Design Considerations
- 24 Sep 2009 - More on vSwitch Load Balancing
- 22 Aug 2009 - Planning for FCoE in Your Data Center Today
- 11 Aug 2009 - Why No Multi-Hop FCoE?
- 30 Jul 2009 - Correction: There Might be an End-to-End FCoE Solution
- 21 Jul 2009 - Client-Specific DHCP Options with Linux DHCP Server
- 9 Jul 2009 - Follow-Up About Multiple VLANs, Virtual Connect, and Flex-10
- 9 Jul 2009 - Using Multiple VLANs with HP Virtual Connect Flex-10
- 5 Jul 2009 - Another Reason Not to Use PVSCSI or VMXNET3
- 10 Jun 2009 - Xeon 5500 CPUs and EVC in vSphere
- 23 May 2009 - Strange Error with Firefly Media Server, iTunes, and Avahi
- 7 May 2009 - Implementing IBM BladeCenter Open Fabric Manager
- 7 Apr 2009 - HP's ProLiant G6 Servers
- 16 Feb 2009 - Blades and Virtualization Aren't Mutually Exclusive: Part Four, HP Traditional Expansion Options
- 13 Feb 2009 - Blades and Virtualization Aren't Mutually Exclusive: Part Three, IBM Traditional Expansion Options
- 7 Feb 2009 - Blades and Virtualization Aren't Mutually Exclusive: Part Two, IBM Power Sizing
- 4 Feb 2009 - Blades and Virtualization Aren't Mutually Exclusive: Part One, HP Power Sizing
- 2 Feb 2009 - NetApp VIF Member Limitations
- 20 Jan 2009 - Configuring Mail.app and iPhone with Google IMAP
- 5 Jan 2009 - Partial Case Sensitivity with esxcfg-advcfg
- 5 Jan 2009 - Changing vNIC Port Group Assignment in VMware with PowerShell
- 26 Dec 2008 - OpenVPN and mt-daapd
- 23 Dec 2008 - A Closer Look at iCal, CalDAV, Google Calendar, and the iPhone
- 16 Dec 2008 - Using vmware-vim-cmd to Modify a Portgroup
- 2 Nov 2008 - The Adventures of OmniFocus Bonjour Sync
- 27 Oct 2008 - Quick Note on ESX and ESXi Storage Multipathing
- 8 Oct 2008 - More on VMware ESX NIC Utilization
- 3 Oct 2008 - NetApp iGroup Strategies for VMware ESX
- 26 Sep 2008 - everRun VM, VMware HA, and VMware FT
- 15 Sep 2008 - Marathon and XenServer HA
- 6 Aug 2008 - A Few SRM Discussion Points
- 6 Aug 2008 - TextMate Revisited
- 5 Aug 2008 - FlexClones Versus Deduplication with VMware Infrastructure
- 31 Jul 2008 - More on Hyper-V for the ESX Engineer
- 16 Jul 2008 - Understanding NIC Utilization in VMware ESX
- 24 Jun 2008 - VLANs on ESX with Nortel Switches
- 16 Jun 2008 - Melio FS, Hyper-V, and VMware ESX
- 29 May 2008 - NetApp OSSV with VMware ESX Server
- 24 Apr 2008 - Using NetApp Deduplication with Block Storage
- 31 Mar 2008 - Only Thin Provisioned in the Beginning
- 11 Mar 2008 - Identifying ESX Server NICs in Blades
- 7 Mar 2008 - Configuration for Protecting VMotion
- 5 Mar 2008 - VMotion and VLAN Security
- 16 Feb 2008 - Getting Things Done on my Mac, Part II
- 6 Feb 2008 - Getting Things Done on my Mac
- 30 Jan 2008 - HP VirtualConnect Clarification
- 20 Jan 2008 - CPU Spike with DRS and VMotion
- 9 Jan 2008 - Local Logins Refused in AD Integration Scenarios
- 31 Dec 2007 - VMware HA Failover Capacity Changes
- 5 Dec 2007 - Managing LUN Space Requirements with NetApp Storage
- 4 Dec 2007 - Calculating VMware HA Failover Capacity
- 13 Nov 2007 - ESX Server and the Native VLAN
- 18 Oct 2007 - Hiding Quicksilver Dock Icon
- 11 Oct 2007 - Disabling RDP Clipboard Redirection
- 5 Oct 2007 - Troubleshooting VMware HA Isolation Response
- 17 Sep 2007 - One Potential Issue in AD Integration Scenarios
- 25 Aug 2007 - User Profile Management in VDI Deployments
- 22 Aug 2007 - Error Connecting to VM Console
- 7 Aug 2007 - Strange VCB Error
- 20 Jul 2007 - Killing Ads in RSS Feeds in NetNewsWire
- 19 Jun 2007 - More on CPU Masking
- 4 Jun 2007 - iSCSI Boot with Microsoft MPIO
- 23 May 2007 - OpenBSD 4.1 on ESX Server 3.0.1
- 21 May 2007 - LUN Clones vs. FlexClones
- 17 May 2007 - NetApp FlexClones with VMware, Part 2
- 15 May 2007 - Resizing Disks Inside Guests
- 15 May 2007 - NetApp FlexClones with VMware, Part 1
- 12 May 2007 - Searching Microsoft Support via Quicksilver
- 27 Mar 2007 - New VMotion Boundary
- 27 Mar 2007 - Using FPK in VDI Deployments
- 23 Mar 2007 - VDI and Leostream Connection Broker
- 6 Mar 2007 - Restoring VCB Full Backups with VMware Converter
- 5 Mar 2007 - VMware Consolidated Backup
- 28 Feb 2007 - Getting the Hang of Interarchy
- 15 Feb 2007 - Preserving Nickname Cache in Exchange Migrations
- 18 Dec 2006 - Changing the IP Address in Solaris 10 U3
- 12 Dec 2006 - VM Portability, Round 3
- 6 Dec 2006 - VM Portability Again
- 28 Nov 2006 - Unix Attributes Tab and nisprop.dll
- 23 Nov 2006 - VMotion Compatibility
- 15 Nov 2006 - Report of Logons from Security Logs
- 28 Sep 2006 - Cocoalicious Fix
- 25 Sep 2006 - Sneaking Around VMotion Limitations
- 21 Sep 2006 - More on the IE VML Vulnerability
- 11 Sep 2006 - ESX Firewall Oddity
- 1 Sep 2006 - Kerberos TGT Validation
- 28 Aug 2006 - Another Round with iSCSI and ESX Server 3
- 24 Aug 2006 - Erroneous Mail Relay Error with Exchange
- 21 Aug 2006 - More on Kerberos Authentication Against Active Directory
- 11 Aug 2006 - A Couple Cool Mac Discoveries
- 10 Aug 2006 - del.icio.us API Change
- 28 Jul 2006 - Active Directory and VAS
- 10 Jul 2006 - iSCSI and ESX Server 3
- 7 Jul 2006 - Setting DNS and WINS Server Addresses Remotely
- 6 Jul 2006 - Remotely Setting the DNS Suffix Search Order
- 29 Jun 2006 - Strange ESX Server Error
- 27 Jun 2006 - NetApp ONTAP Simulator and ESX Server
- 24 Jun 2006 - Apache as an OWA Front-End
- 22 Jun 2006 - Enumerating Universal Group Membership
- 18 May 2006 - OpenBSD 3.9 on ESX Server
- 16 May 2006 - Follow Up on ESX Server Integration
- 1 May 2006 - Permissions in the ESX Server MUI
- 21 Apr 2006 - File Screens in Windows Server 2003 R2
- 17 Apr 2006 - VLANs and Port Groups
- 4 Apr 2006 - Modifying DHCP Client Operation on OpenBSD
- 4 Apr 2006 - Static Routes on OpenBSD
- 22 Mar 2006 - Installing VMware Workstation on Ubuntu
- 19 Feb 2006 - Details on Transparent RDP Tunneling
- 27 Jan 2006 - GRE Tunnels on a Cisco Router
- 4 Jan 2006 - Mac OS X and .local Domains
- 13 Dec 2005 - Application-Specific VPNs
- 12 Dec 2005 - Using .Mac iDisk with a WatchGuard Firebox
- 3 Dec 2005 - Protecting OWA with Apache
- 1 Dec 2005 - Updating Kubuntu to KDE 3.5
- 28 Nov 2005 - ipfw Rules for Bonjour
- 16 Aug 2005 - Funky Active Directory Issue
- 18 Jul 2005 - Minor Linux-AD Hiccup Fixed (Hopefully)
- 13 Jul 2005 - Modifying Camino's Exceptions List for Cookies
- 13 Jul 2005 - Linux-AD Integration Direction