DevOps – PowerShell in a Continuos Integration pipeline
This is a recording of my 20mins session at the last Melbourne System Center, Infrastructure and Security User Group. It is a quick dive into PowerShell Desired State Configuration (PSDSC), Pester Unit...
View ArticleFrom here on – Automating the universe
So, it was really quiet here over the last two months and that had several reasons. I will talk about one of them now. I am changing, again. Or reinventing myself? Innovating myself? Whatever, I am...
View ArticleWindows configuration management – from *nix with Ansible
Wait, what? First he turns his back on ConfigMgr and now he’s doing Configuration Management on Windows from a *nix machine?! Yes, that’s what I’ve been doing over the last couple of weeks now. I am...
View ArticlePowerShell DSC to manage PowerShell modules
While on my way back from the 2015 IT DevConnections conference, it was a loooooong way back, I got the idea that I somehow wanted to make sure that certain PowerShell modules were installed on my...
View ArticlePowerShell module to interact with Github
I sometimes find myself in a situation where I need to do something on Github, but, because I still once in a while use Windows machines which don’t have any git installed, I have to go and use the Web...
View ArticleAnsible test lab in under 30 minutes
I speak to a lot of people at a lot of user groups, Meetups (like the Melbourne PowerShell Meetup) or conferences and a lot of them seem to not have heard of Ansible yet. To be fair, Ansible is still...
View ArticleSecuring sensible data with Ansible
One very important aspect of deployments and the tools used for deployments is the security of sensible data like passwords, user names, server names, connection strings and such. It is important to...
View ArticleContinuous Integration with PowerShell, TeamCity and Git
On Twitter I was following a conversation where someone said that he needed an easier way to publish PowerShell modules to the Microsoft PowerShell Gallery. His issue was that there were too many...
View ArticleConference session recordings from NicConf
This year I was able to again make the long trip to Europe to present at the Nordic Infrastructure Conference (NicConf) in Oslo/Norway. I had two sessions, one was “Ansible – Configuration Management...
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