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One of the biggest draws of the public cloud includes services like managed Kubernetes or server-less functions. Managed services like these enable IT organizations to consume higher-level services, which allow the IT organization to focus their efforts on opportunities to create business value from technology.…
I've got Chef code that works on both Linux and Windows to register nodes in our dev environment against SolarWinds while we're fleshing out our SAM setup. We normally launch these via Rightscale, which then joins AD if a windows node and configures them with Chef. Upon server termination, if done properly it will remove…
Hi All We are looking at using Chef to automate server deployment and part of this work would be: 1. Lookup in IPAM the next available address in a subnet, reserve it and add the hostname to the reservation 2. Chef passes a name/IP and node creation (and possible node type or template name) request to Solarwinds for…
Infrastructure as Code is about the programmatic management of IT infrastructure, be it physical or virtual servers, network devices, or the variety of supporting appliances racked and stacked in our network closets and data centers. Historically, the problem has been managing an increasing number of servers after the…
Seeing this following error which is breaking Chef automation: root@pncsolarvd10:/etc/apt/sources.list.d# apt-get install swiagent Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: bc git git-core git-man…
I dug up an older thread here about how to configure Chef to install the agent, and my recipe is like so: orion_ip = sw_dc_settings['orion_ip'] poller_ip = sw_dc_settings['poller_ip'] # Install the swiagent package using the repository template '/etc/apt/sources.list.d/solarwinds.list' do source 'solarwinds.list.erb' owner…
What are some reasons one should choose PatchManager for deploying patches instead of Chef/Puppet?
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