Shorts

Stress-Free School Mornings with Home Assistant: The Hardware

Stress-Free School Mornings with Home Assistant: Backend Building Blocks

Stress-Free School Mornings with Home Assistant: Dashboard Building Blocks

Stress-Free School Mornings with Home Assistant: The Automation

Stress-Free School Mornings with Home Assistant: The Final Dashboard

Stress-Free School Mornings with Home Assistant: Conclusion

Quiet Influence: A Guide to Nemawashi in Engineering: The “Big Reveal” Anti-Pattern

Quiet Influence: A Guide to Nemawashi in Engineering: Nemawashi

Quiet Influence: A Guide to Nemawashi in Engineering: The 6-Pager

Quiet Influence: A Guide to Nemawashi in Engineering: The (Not So Big) Reveal

Quiet Influence: A Guide to Nemawashi in Engineering: Conclusion

Argo Workflows - Proven Patterns from Production: Lessons

Argo Workflows - Proven Patterns from Production: Patterns

Argo Workflows - Proven Patterns from Production: Conclusion

Creating a VSCode Second Brain: 🗣 High Level Workflow

Creating a VSCode Second Brain: 🔧 Tools

Creating a VSCode Second Brain: 🔌 VSCode Extensions

Creating a VSCode Second Brain: 📱 Editing Markdown on iOS

Creating a VSCode Second Brain: 🤔 Impact

Creating a VSCode Second Brain: Conclusion

Securing Home Assistant with Cloudflare: Choose a new port for Home Assistant

Securing Home Assistant with Cloudflare: Setup a subdomain for your Home Assistant

Securing Home Assistant with Cloudflare: Setup an SSL Certificate

Securing Home Assistant with Cloudflare: Blocking Traffic Not Originating From Cloudflare

Securing Home Assistant with Cloudflare: Allow Proxy Requests to Home Assistant

Securing Home Assistant with Cloudflare: Using the Cloudflare Firewall

Securing Home Assistant with Cloudflare: Setup Two Factor Authentication

Securing Home Assistant with Cloudflare: Conclusion

Building a Golden Image Pipeline: What is a golden image?

Building a Golden Image Pipeline: Why would you want to create golden images?

Building a Golden Image Pipeline: Golden images as code

Building a Golden Image Pipeline: How many golden images should I have?

Building a Golden Image Pipeline: What should go into golden images?

Building a Golden Image Pipeline: What is a golden image pipeline?

Building a Golden Image Pipeline: Next Time

Automating Semantic Versioning for any Project: Automating using semantic-release

Automating Semantic Versioning for any Project: Installation

Automating Semantic Versioning for any Project: Configuration

Automating Semantic Versioning for any Project: Create and set a GitHub token

Automating Semantic Versioning for any Project: Running locally

Automating Semantic Versioning for any Project: Building your release

Automating Semantic Versioning for any Project: Get your build running in CI

Automating Semantic Versioning for any Project: Conclusion

Up your AWS CloudFormation game with Visual Studio Code: YAML indentation

Up your AWS CloudFormation game with Visual Studio Code: Tabs, spaces and line endings

Up your AWS CloudFormation game with Visual Studio Code: Sorting things alphabetically

Up your AWS CloudFormation game with Visual Studio Code: Fast access to CloudFormation documentation

Up your AWS CloudFormation game with Visual Studio Code: CloudFormation linting

Up your AWS CloudFormation game with Visual Studio Code: Jumping around CloudFormation templates quickly

Up your AWS CloudFormation game with Visual Studio Code: Conclusion

Tackling a Fear Of Public Speaking: Start small

Tackling a Fear Of Public Speaking: Speak often

Tackling a Fear Of Public Speaking: Realize you have a story to tell

Tackling a Fear Of Public Speaking: Do a joint presentation

Tackling a Fear Of Public Speaking: Be inspired by others

Tackling a Fear Of Public Speaking: Actively take steps to get better

Tackling a Fear Of Public Speaking: Practice

Tackling a Fear Of Public Speaking: Gather honest feedback

Tackling a Fear Of Public Speaking: Bring some supporters

Tackling a Fear Of Public Speaking: Conclusion

Splunk Spotlight - Alerts: Getting Splunk setup

Splunk Spotlight - Alerts: Getting test data

Splunk Spotlight - Alerts: Alerting basics

Splunk Spotlight - Alerts: Cron scheduling

Splunk Spotlight - Alerts: Example 1 - Sending a webhook

Splunk Spotlight - Alerts: Example 2 - Alerting to Slack

Splunk Spotlight - Alerts: Example 3 - Alerting to Slack with rich formatting

Splunk Spotlight - Alerts: Example 4 - Alerting when logs are not appearing (a dead man’s switch)

Splunk Spotlight - Alerts: General tips

Splunk Spotlight - Alerts: Conclusion

Splunk Spotlight - The Lookup Command: The Lookup Command

Splunk Spotlight - The Lookup Command: Getting Test Data

Splunk Spotlight - The Lookup Command: Example 1 - Customer Ordering Data

Splunk Spotlight - The Lookup Command: Example 2 - Web Server Access Logs

Automating Datadog with Terraform: Deciding on Terraform

Automating Datadog with Terraform: Terraform with Datadog Basics

Automating Datadog with Terraform: Repository Structure & Separation of Concerns

Automating Datadog with Terraform: Defining Applications and Teams

Automating Datadog with Terraform: terraform.tfvars

Automating Datadog with Terraform: vars.tf

Automating Datadog with Terraform: main.tf

Automating Datadog with Terraform: Running Terraform

Automating Datadog with Terraform: Setting Environment Variables for Terraform

Automating Datadog with Terraform: Types of Datadog Monitors

Testing Ansible Roles Against Windows with Test-Kitchen: Improving our automation development workflow

Testing Ansible Roles Against Windows with Test-Kitchen: Test-kitchen with Ansible and Windows

Testing Ansible Roles Against Windows with Test-Kitchen: How to install test-kitchen and other requirements

Testing Ansible Roles Against Windows with Test-Kitchen: How to configure test-kitchen

Testing Ansible Roles Against Windows with Test-Kitchen: Structuring test-kitchen in an Ansible repository

Testing Ansible Roles Against Windows with Test-Kitchen: Example Ansible role repository with test-kitchen

Testing Ansible Roles Against Windows with Test-Kitchen: The different stages of test-kitchen

Testing Ansible Roles Against Windows with Test-Kitchen: Conclusion

Best Practices with Packer and Windows: Why you should be using Packer

Best Practices with Packer and Windows: Getting Started with Packer

Best Practices with Packer and Windows: Best Practices

Best Practices with Packer and Windows: Conclusion

Ultimate PowerShell Prompt Customization and Git Setup Guide: Install required components

Ultimate PowerShell Prompt Customization and Git Setup Guide: ConEmu

Ultimate PowerShell Prompt Customization and Git Setup Guide: PowerShell Profile

Ultimate PowerShell Prompt Customization and Git Setup Guide: Git

Ultimate PowerShell Prompt Customization and Git Setup Guide: Conclusion

5 Tips for Writing DSC Resources in PowerShell 5: Tip 1 - Structure your DSC Resource in a standard manner

5 Tips for Writing DSC Resources in PowerShell 5: Tip 2 - Create a symbolic link between the DSC resource in your local repo and your PowerShell module path

5 Tips for Writing DSC Resources in PowerShell 5: Tip 3 - Press Control + Space For IntelliSense on the DSC Resource in the PS ISE

5 Tips for Writing DSC Resources in PowerShell 5: Tip 4 - Verifying the resources your DSC module is exposing

5 Tips for Writing DSC Resources in PowerShell 5: Tip 5 - Testing Class Based Resources with Pester

5 Tips for Writing DSC Resources in PowerShell 5: Wrapping up and further reading

Windows Metric Dashboards with InfluxDB and Grafana: Requirements

Windows Metric Dashboards with InfluxDB and Grafana: Install InfluxDB

Windows Metric Dashboards with InfluxDB and Grafana: Install Grafana

Windows Metric Dashboards with InfluxDB and Grafana: Telegraf

Windows Metric Dashboards with InfluxDB and Grafana: Install the Telegraf Client

Windows Metric Dashboards with InfluxDB and Grafana: Configure Telegraf

Windows Metric Dashboards with InfluxDB and Grafana: Troubleshooting

Windows Metric Dashboards with InfluxDB and Grafana: Installing Telegraf as a service

Windows Metric Dashboards with InfluxDB and Grafana: Viewing the Data in Grafana

Windows Metric Dashboards with InfluxDB and Grafana: Configure a Data Source

Windows Metric Dashboards with InfluxDB and Grafana: Create a Dashboard

Windows Metric Dashboards with InfluxDB and Grafana: Add a Graph

Windows Metric Dashboards with InfluxDB and Grafana: Save the Dashboard

Windows Metric Dashboards with InfluxDB and Grafana: Create a Table

Windows Metric Dashboards with InfluxDB and Grafana: Create a Single Value Display

ChatOps on Windows with Hubot and PowerShell: Basic Hubot Concepts

ChatOps on Windows with Hubot and PowerShell: Requirements

ChatOps on Windows with Hubot and PowerShell: Create a Slack Integration for Hubot

ChatOps on Windows with Hubot and PowerShell: Installing Hubot

ChatOps on Windows with Hubot and PowerShell: Starting Hubot

ChatOps on Windows with Hubot and PowerShell: Integrating Hubot with PowerShell

Setup Windows 10 For Chef and PowerShell DSC Development: Set Execution Policy and Install Applications

Setup Windows 10 For Chef and PowerShell DSC Development: Customize Your PowerShell Profile

Setup Windows 10 For Chef and PowerShell DSC Development: Path Environment Variable

Setup Windows 10 For Chef and PowerShell DSC Development: Move PowerShell Profile to a Synced Drive (Optional)

Setup Windows 10 For Chef and PowerShell DSC Development: Configure Atom

Setup Windows 10 For Chef and PowerShell DSC Development: Setup Git SSH Keys

Setup Windows 10 For Chef and PowerShell DSC Development: Download Vagrant Boxes

Setup Windows 10 For Chef and PowerShell DSC Development: Configure Chef and Berkshelf

Setup Windows 10 For Chef and PowerShell DSC Development: Customize the PowerShell ISE Theme (Optional)

Setup Windows 10 For Chef and PowerShell DSC Development: Conclusion

Automating with Jenkins and PowerShell on Windows - Part 2: Using SSL on the Jenkins Web Interface

Automating with Jenkins and PowerShell on Windows - Part 2: Configure the Jenkins Server for Remoting and Script Execution

Automating with Jenkins and PowerShell on Windows - Part 2: Set PowerShell Execution Policy PowerShell

Automating with Jenkins and PowerShell on Windows - Part 2: Install a new Plugin

Automating with Jenkins and PowerShell on Windows - Part 2: Passing Credentials to PowerShell Jobs

Automating with Jenkins and PowerShell on Windows - Part 2: Parameterizing a Jenkins Job with Credentials

Automating with Jenkins and PowerShell on Windows - Part 2: Storing Credentials in Jenkins

Automating with Jenkins and PowerShell on Windows - Part 2: Run the build

Automating with Jenkins and PowerShell on Windows - Part 2: Conclusion

Automating with Jenkins and PowerShell on Windows - Part 1: What is Jenkins?

Automating with Jenkins and PowerShell on Windows - Part 1: Using Jenkins in Operations

Automating with Jenkins and PowerShell on Windows - Part 1: Installing Jenkins

Automating with Jenkins and PowerShell on Windows - Part 1: Configuring Basic Security

Automating with Jenkins and PowerShell on Windows - Part 1: Updating Plugins and Installing the PowerShell Plugin

Automating with Jenkins and PowerShell on Windows - Part 1: Creating a job

Automating with Jenkins and PowerShell on Windows - Part 1: Running a Job

Automating with Jenkins and PowerShell on Windows - Part 1: Part 2

Using PowerShell To Send Metrics To Graphite: The Configuration File

Using PowerShell To Send Metrics To Graphite: How The Functions Work

Replace a Failed Disk in Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces: Diagnosis

Replace a Failed Disk in Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces: Retiring the Failed Disk

Replace a Failed Disk in Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces: Adding a New Disk

Replace a Failed Disk in Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces: Repairing the Volumes

Replace a Failed Disk in Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces: Remove the Lost VirtualDisks

Replace a Failed Disk in Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces: Removing the Failed Disk from the Pool

Replace a Failed Disk in Windows Server 2012 Storage Spaces: Summary

Fix Timeout Error while mounting a LUN in NetApp SnapDrive: Clean Up The Mess

Fix Timeout Error while mounting a LUN in NetApp SnapDrive: Connect The LUN Again

How To Fix Hyper-V Migration Attempt Failed: The ‘None Of My Hyper-V Servers Are Live Migrating’ Checklist

How To Fix Hyper-V Migration Attempt Failed: The ‘Migration Attempt Failed but other VM’s migrate fine’ Checklist