AutomatingOps - Journey into IaC & cloud

Steve Jennings

Steve Jennings

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This blog is meant to be the place for me to explore the cloud. I am a Windows sysadmin who focuses on the Windows ecosystem.

Ansible 3.0 and beyond, a collections primer

Apr 4, 20216 min read

The new project organization for Ansible can be somewhat confusing, here's a guide! · Background Ansible is a configuration management (CM) tool used to...

Ansible 3.0 and beyond, a collections primer

Basic Azure Application Gateway Monitoring

Mar 28, 20217 min read

with pre-built Azure Monitor Log queries! · What is Azure Application Gateway Azure Application Gateway is a Layer-7 Load Balancer. For a brief overview...

Basic Azure Application Gateway Monitoring

Allowing Windows Subsystem for Linux to communicate with Hyper-V VMs

Mar 13, 20214 min read

Howdy! 👋 Hope everyone's weekend is swell! I was experimenting with Windows Subsystem for Linux and Hyper-V. I noticed that almost immediately that...

Allowing Windows Subsystem for Linux to communicate with Hyper-V VMs

Error: IMAGE_STATE_UNDEPLOYABLE with Packer and Azure

Dec 13, 20183 min read

[This post was originally posted December 13, 2018, I am re-posting this in case it helps others] Ever run into IMAGE_STATE_UNDEPLOYABLE when running...

Error: IMAGE_STATE_UNDEPLOYABLE with Packer and Azure