Introduction In this post we will be discussing an approach to have your own CICD system on premise. We will install Gitlab server onto our VMWare cluster running on ESXi.
Introduction In this post I installed ESXi onto a Raspberry Pi 4 device with 8GB of RAM. Then I configured manually some Ubuntu servers and installed VMWare tools on them (see this post).
Introduction In this post, I showed how to go about installing ESXi onto a Raspberry Pi 4 device. As I was launching multiple Ubuntu virtual servers, I found issues with installing VMWare tools onto them.
Introduction On October 7th, VMware released a fling (*) that allows us to run ESXi on a Raspberry Pi. This immediately caught my attention as I had been waiting for this for quite a while.
Introduction In this, we experimented a bit with Packer in combination with AWS. To get a general intro on Packer, go ahead and read that post first.
Introduction Packer is an open source tool for creating identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration.
What are dynamic secrets In this post, we will discuss the topic of dynamic secrets. What are dynamic secrets then?
What is Hashicorp Vault Taken from the Vault website:
Vault is a tool for securely accessing secrets. A secret is anything that you want to tightly control access to, such as API keys, passwords, or certificates.
Introduction In this post we created a simple ACI network using Terraform. In what follows, we will do the same but instead use Ansible.
Introduction In past couple of posts, we have been experimenting with Terraform in combination with ACI and vSphere seperately. In this post, we will combine both and we will first create network constructs on Cisco’s ACI solution and once done, we will create two VM instances on vSphere that are actually using the underlying ACI network constructs.