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Multi-Cloud DNS delegated Sub domain with Terraform Cloud

Tue, 08 Oct 2019 07:49:03 +0000

DNS in a multi-cloud world

As companies transition to multi-cloud deployments, creating a common way to deploy solutions has become a requirement, this is also easily achieved by using Terraform to create your immutable infrastructure.

The challenge you face is that the infrastructure in a cloud deployment is dynamic in nature and so you can't predict what the IP addresses of parts of your systems will be and these IP addresses can change daily if your developers have a fast deployment cycle.

Meteor User Seed

Mon, 10 Nov 2014 17:11:46 +0000

I have been trying to build a site with Meteor and have slowly started getting stuff working.

One of the ways to populate your development data has been with database seeding.

I wanted to link a user account with a document in one of my collections so I worked this out from the documentation.

You add users to the users collection this returns the userId for the new user which you capture in a variable that you use to insert the userId into your second collection.

Great Script to tidy Up our Photos

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:59:06 +0000

I was looking for a way to tidy up out photos on the NAS at home and have tried a number of things that just did not fit the bill.

they were either just to difficult or completely wrong.

i then stumbled upon this blog post http://falesafe.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/photo-management/

What a gem. if you can install ruby on a machine you have to sort your photos this is it.

The post is from 2009 and so I had to update some of the gems it uses as well as change some of the code. but it was not much work.

How to copy custom attributes when migrating vmware vcenter to new database

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:19:05 +0000

I recently had to move hosts and guests to a new vcenter server as the old server had become corrupt and full of issues.

The current vcenter has a few custom attributes and notes that would not be transferred as part of the move.

So I wanted to use powercli to read the attributes out and put them back.

To export the attributes I used the script below.

You will need to add as many Key Value pairs as you have custom attributes

ESX Trunk VLAN config for Storage

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 08:47:21 +0000

I was struggling with an install of ESXi on a cisco 6509 switch where the management and VM LAN connectivity worked just fine but for some reason the SAN NFS VLAN just did not want to communicate with the Nexenta on that VLAN.

After some searching and trial and error I was able to utilise this post http://blogs.egroup-us.com/?p=2453 to get the port-channel and the ports configured correctly. I did not use all the settings from this post but it did remind me to check my port0-channel config.

Connecting ESXi 4.1 to extreme x650 10G switches

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:48:35 +0000

I am busy working on a contract with a company that is implementing a 10G network for their ESX cluster.

We have been using extreme X650 10G copper switches for the core.

Migrating the current servers to the 10G environment was relatively easy and went with minimal issues.

Over the last 2 weeks I have been trying to get a new server to connect to the cluster and have been frustrated. I have been unable to get the server communicating on the management VLAN. the server was configured correctly and so was the switch or so I thought.

Bongo Mono API

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:51:43 +0000

Bongo Mono API

For quite some time now I have been trying to learn a programming language to try to get my ideas for applications built.

As part of the learning curve I have started trying to use MonoDevelop and mono to create an app that will allow you to browse the Bongo store.

One of the developers on the Bongo Project (so_solid_moo) was kind enough to start me off with a basic small app he quickly created to test his dev stuff.

Came off my bike today

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:06:50 +0000

Well I knew it would happen and it eventually did.

I was going to work this morning and I had to swerve for a black porsche and my bike dropped.

I landed on my right hand side and slid down the road. I have a few bruises and bumps and will be seeing the doctor tomorrow morning. The bike is in the shop at the moment I will find out what the damage is later.

Posting Silence

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:13:22 +0000

I have been scarce lately as I have been working down in Plymouth on a short contract for a Art school.

it was fun and I did more that I anticipated doing which is good.

Hopefully I will be able to get back to my Opensource stuff soon.