#vBrownBag DevOps Follow-Up Provision VM’s in vCenter using Ansible w Jonathan Frappier (@jfrappier)

#vBrownBag crew member Jonathan Frappier demos using Ansible to provision virtual machines to vCenter. Ansible supports creating, cloning, and reconfiguring virtual machines in vCenter. Example playbooks can be found at www.virtxpert.com & github. Note that this demo was done with Ansible 1.9 prior to its official release. Ansible & vCenter Video You can follow Jonathan on
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#vBrownBag DevOps Follow-Up Setting up network services using Puppet with Rob Nelson (@rnelson0)

Rob Nelson joins the #vBrownBag DevOps series to talk about his PuppetInABox project, a curated collection of forge modules and user repositories. This solution includes everything required to provide puppet, puppetdb, r10k, dns, dhcp, a yum repository, and a build server. The only thing you need to provide is a gateway device and you have
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#vBrownBag DevOps Follow-Up SaltStack w Thomas Hatch (@thatch45) and Mike Place (@cachedout)

SaltStack CTO Thomas Hatch and engineer Mike Place stop in on the #vBrownBag DevOps series to cover: – Introduction to SaltStack – What is SaltStack automation for Web-scale infrastructure operations – SaltStack concepts – Real world use case and walk through You can follow Thomas and Mike on Twitter @thatch45 and @cachedout respectively. SaltStack Video
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#vBrownBag DevOps Follow-Up Learning Ansible with Jeff Geerling (@geerlingguy)

Jeff Geerling, author of Ansible for DevOps covers an introduction to Ansible in the #vBrownBag DevOps series and shows how easy it is to get started and build inventories and playbooks to automate tasks with Ansible. Video Homework Slides You can follow Jeff on Twitter @geerlingguy and check out his book – Ansible for DevOps on LeanPub
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#vBrownBag DevOps Follow-Up Learning Chef with Yvo van Doorn (@yvov)

Yvo van Doorn joins the #vBrownBag DevOps series to discuss configuration management with Chef. Video Presentation You can follow Yvo on Twitter @yvov . Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm – Sign up for the live #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ where you can also get updates and view our past series such as the Automate All The Things series at https://vbrownbag.comm/vbrownbag-automate-all-the-things-training-schedule/, Cisco certification series https://vbrownbag.comm/vbrownbag-cisco-certification-track/ or
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#vBrownBag DevOps Follow-Up Puppet with Jeremy Adams

Jeremy Adams joins us to present the ProfessionalVMware.com #vBrownBag DevOps session on Puppet. Follow along in the homework to deploy the Puppet learning VM and see how you can create manifests to do things like patch systems for Heartbleed. Video Homework Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm – Sign up for the live #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/
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#vBrownBag Follow-Up VMware VCP-DCV with Mike Brown (@VirtuallyMikeB)

In the final episode of the professionalvmware.com #vBrownBag VCP-DCV series, Mike Brown provides a HA & DRS fire hose review requirements, configuration and consideration for HA and DRS. Video Slides You can find Mike on Twitter @VirtuallyMikeB and his blog at http://virtuallymikebrown.com/ Originally published at https://vbrownbag.comm – Sign up for the live #vBrownBag broadcast at https://vbrownbag.comm/brownbags/ where you
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#vBrownBag Follow-Up VMware VCP-DCV with Frank Buechsel (@fbuechsel)

In part 5 of the professionalvmware.com #vBrownBag VCP-DCV series, Frank Buechsel covers the following: Virtual machine management & resource utilization: Virtual CPU and virutal memory How to configure VMs, various options, impact on VM and host performance (multi-vcpu, memory, overhead) Reservations, limits, shares, resource pools Video Slides You can find Frank on Twitter @fbuechsel and
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