Records Top 20ish Records of 2020 A little late, but there are my top 20 records of 2020, as per previous years these are all ones which I have purchased on vinyl. bdrmm - BedroomDoves -
macOS Managing Python on macOS Big Sur Getting my preferred local Python installation method working in macOS Big Sur
Ansible Ansible, Azure and macOS Big Sur Running Ansible and the Azure Collection on macOS Big Sur is a little troublesome at the moment, so here is an alternative.
Docker Migrating my Docker images to the GitHub Container Registry After the Docker Hub announcement about retention I decided to move all of my container images to GitHub Container Registry.
GitHub GitHub Codespaces and Terraform To get myself familiar with GitHub Codespaces, the online IDE based on Visual Studio Code, I decided to create a quick Terraform project.
Terraform Azure DevOps Terraform Pipeline In my last post I wrote about how I created an Azure DevOps pipeline using Ansible in a more "Terraform" way, however, although I have used Terraform and Azure DevOps quite a bit I realised I didn't really have a template for a pipeline.
Ansible Azure DevOps Ansible Pipeline I wanted to have a play with Azure DevOps and Ansible pipeline, but didn't want to use the Ansible Task as it requires a virtual machine. In this post I look at how to run Ansible like Terraform in an Azure DevOps pipeline.
Ansible Ansible and the Azure Rest API Over the last few months I have been doing more and more work with Ansible to manage end to end deployments in Azure. For the most part Ansible’s core set of Azure modules work with no problems and more than do the job.
macOS Upgrade Python on MacOS The latest major version of Python 2 was originally release on 03/07/2010 and on 01/01/2020 Python 2 will be no more, so how can you upgrade?
CentOS Packer CentOS 8 Now that CentOS 8 has been out for a few weeks I decided it was time to dip my toe in the water and update the CentOS 7 Packer scripts
Azure Adding a Deploy to Azure Button While working on another post, I needed to launch an Ansible VM in Azure, so I decided to look at a button!
macOS Current Tools With macOS Catalina coming out soon I thought I would document what I currently have installed.
Azure Quickly launch an Azure AKS Cluster I need to be able to quickly launch and teardown an Azure AKS cluster, in this post I look at the commands needed to do that using the Azure CLI
Azure Azure Bastion Last week Microsoft announced that Azure Bastion had gone into public preview, I had been interested in this service since I first heard about it a few months ago.
Azure Microsoft Azure Portal URLs As I am finding myself using Microsoft Azure more and more I thought I would make some notes about how to quickly access the various web portals.
macOS Moving to ZSH After the announcement a few weeks backm that Apple would be defaulting to zsh in macOS Catalina I decided to take the plunge and make the switch on my current machines.
Azure Terraform Quirks I have been using Terraform over the last few months, having not used it in anger for quite a while since the projects I have been working on have been more suitable for using Ansible.
Music Top Twenty-ish 2018 edition After missing 2017, I am back with a list of some of my favourite releases of the year. As per previous years, these are all albums which I have physically purchased, some more than once, and they are listed in no particular order.
Cloud Gaming in the Cloud with Shadow In a change from my normal technical posts, I thought I would write a little about Shadow, which I signed up for a few weeks ago.
Kubernetes First steps with DigitalOceans Managed Kubernetes service A few days ago DigitalOcean released their Managed Kubernetes service, as I had a little time this afternoon I decided to give it a spin.
Containers Shopping for Containers Over the last six months the Docker Store, which was first introduced as a private beta nearly a year and a half ago in June 2016, has come on leaps
