This Series provides a collection of examples that demonstrate how to use Packer and the Packer Plugin for VMware vSphere to automate the creation of virtual machine images for VMware vSphere environments. HashiCorp Configuration Language ("HCL") is used for the examples Folder structure: Linux Distributions …
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What is OpenTofu? The open source infrastructure as code tool. Previously named OpenTF, OpenTofu is a fork of Terraform that is open-source, community-driven, and managed by the Linux Foundation. The core OpenTofu workflow consists of three stages: Write: Defining resources, which may be across multiple cloud providers …
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What is Packer? Packer is a tool that lets you create identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source template. Packer can create golden images to use in image pipelines. In this tutorial we will see how to install and get started with Packer on Rocky Linux. Install Packer HashiCorp packer conflict …
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AWX stands for “Ansible Web eXecutable” is a free and open-source project that allows you to easily manage and control Ansible projects. AWX is the upstream project of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. AWX provides a web-based user interface, a powerful REST API and allows to manage or sync inventory with other …
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K3s is a CNCF sandbox project that delivers a lightweight yet powerful certified Kubernetes distribution. K3S is a lightweight Kubernetes, easy to install, Simple but powerful "batteries-included" features have been added, such as: local storage provider service load balancer helm controller Traefik ingress …
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Run VS Code on any machine anywhere and access it in the browser. Why I Use Coder? Code on any device with a consistent development environment Accessible from Browser Microsoft VS Code extensions will work System Requirements At the minimum, the recommendation is : 1 GB of RAM 2 CPU cores Installation To install, run: …
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Hardware Requirements: The minimum hardware requirements for pfSense® software on hardware are: 64-bit amd64 (x86-64) compatible CPU 1GB or more RAM - I've configured 512MB in Lab, which is enough for non network relted use cases 8 GB or larger disk drive (SSD, HDD, etc) 2 network interface cards Bootable USB drive or …
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Rocky Linux Server Template creation for Home Lab Step1: Create VM In VMware workstation, Go to File -> Select New Virtual Mahine to create a VM Select the custom(Advanced) anc click next. Leave the Typical (recommended) configuration option, if you choose not to play around. Choose I will install operating system …
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Windows Server Template creation for Home Lab To create a template, first we need to provision the virtual machine on which we will install Windows Server 2022. Here are a few things to consider when doing so: Config parameters 1. Disk type 1Thin Disk ( this is the default) Since this is for Home Lab, we have chosen …
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