This is one of those posts that has to start with a whole bunch of disclaimers because this is a fun project that I worked on this week, but is NOT an officially supported deployment for Turbonomic. This is done as much as an example of how to run a Terraform deployment using a cloud-init … Read more
If you haven’t already discovered jq, you definitely need to take a look. This nifty little tool is handy for manipulating JSON content at the command line and within scripts. The first quick thing I think will be helpful is showing how to pipe raw JSON output to jq to pretty print it (aka show it … Read more
It seems that there is an active issue when resuming machines using Vagrant that triggers provisioning scripts on resume and not just when doing the original vagrant up command. EXAMPLE: The issue here is that I already have the build script executed on the original vagrant build of the machine. The scripts may not be … Read more
Many orchestration and automation processes will need to download content from external or internal sources over protocols like HTTP and FTP. The simple way to do this is to leverage lightweight, commonly supported and available tools. The most common and popular tool that I’ve found for managing scripting of downloads inside configuration management systems and … Read more