The OpsCorner – A documentation repository of loosely related topics

Dell OpenManage Enterprise API PowerShell Scripts

- September 18, 2020 | September 18, 2020 - Bryan McClellan

Here is a PowerShell script GitHub repository I created. The goal of the repo is to provide functional OME API scripts for information gather mostly. These (for now) would be a tool used to provide…

Software / Technology

Ansible Workshop from Anywhere

- August 31, 2020 | September 1, 2020 - Bryan McClellan

About 8 months ago I began to develop an instructor led Ansible Workshop that could be led from my place of work. We have a mini-datacenter lab and I found it nice to get some…

Software / Technology

VMware Webinar Series

- July 27, 2020 - Bryan McClellan

As I begin to wind down the VMware webinar series, I wanted to bring all the content I have been working on for this series into a single blog write-up. Enabling Self-Service VMs and Containers…

Software / Technology

Using the default VMware-Privileged PodSecurityPolicies on TKG

- June 30, 2020 - Bryan McClellan

Issue: After deploying k8s clusters I usually run through a yelb app deployment to test and validate the cluster fundamental operations. After deploying TKG and the yelb app in a new namespace I noticed the…

Software / Technology

VM Template Updater with Ansible

- April 24, 2020 | April 26, 2020 - Bryan McClellan

I was working on a process for keeping Windows VM templates up to date in vSphere. I have seen this done before either by hand, which seems to never meet cadence expectations, and automated fashions…

Software / Technology

General Automation Thoughts and a Video

- April 16, 2020 | April 16, 2020 - Bryan McClellan

Humor me for a moment here... I have been reading a lot of books on k8s and I realized that you could probably categorize automation into three categories. Very similar to the Kubernetes object types…

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ServiceNow MID Server Install with Ansible

- March 20, 2020 | March 20, 2020 - Bryan McClellan

Summary: This article demonstrates a way to auto download and install the MID server files from ServiceNow using Ansible on the localhost. This allows you to leverage Ansible easily by passing ServiceNow workflows to Ansible…

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Ansible Variables, Prompts and T-Shirt Size VMs

- March 19, 2020 | March 20, 2020 - Bryan McClellan

This post describes a technique for using Ansible variables to create a menu driven request for vSphere VMs and allowing for "t-shirt sizes" to govern CPU and memory. This technique could be used to size…

Miscellaneous

Work from home tips for Bryan

- March 17, 2020 | March 20, 2020 - Bryan McClellan

Moving from an office-based team environment to a semi-permanent remote work schedule over the last year has been a large transition for me. Outside of direct person to person communication, there are a couple things that really stand out as far…

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Basic Code Management with Azure DevOps

- March 6, 2020 | March 20, 2020 - Bryan McClellan

I have a couple of blog posts where I get into how I use VSCode and Git or basics of my Scratch repo technique and those articles can be found here. https://theopscorner.com/2019/10/getting-started-with-source-control-management-for-the-sysadmin/ https://theopscorner.com/2019/10/how-i-use-vscode-and-git/ The premise…

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Powershell Profile sharing for PowerShell 5 and Pwsh…

- March 5, 2020 | March 20, 2020 - Bryan McClellan

Goal: Maintain a single profile script in Documents for Powershell and Pwsh Solution: Create a symbolic link to the Documents\WindowsPowershell target as Powershell Open CMD prompt Run the below command... mklink /D %HOMEPATH%\Documents\PowerShell %HOMEPATH%\Documents\WindowsPowerShell Cleanup…

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Part 3 – NSX-T Edge and Transport on…

- December 30, 2019 | March 20, 2020 - Bryan McClellan

Deploy Tier0 Logical Router This is a continuation of the Part 1 and 2 found here.. This assumes you have completed configuring ESX Cluster for NSX as described in Part 1 of this series and…