All-in-one DevOps VM

The Ultimate DevOps Sandbox โ€œTired of juggling multiple VMs for your DevOps stack? Get it all in one place with the ultimate DevOps VMโ€”just one command, zero hassle.โ€ Intro This ideaโ€™s been chilling in my mind for ages while I was playing around with Vagrant. Iโ€™ve lost count of the number of cool builds Iโ€™ve …

Terraform for dummies part 5: Terraform deployment On-premises (KVM)

Intro For a long time, Terraform was associated with deploying resources in the cloud. But what many people donโ€™t know is that terraform already had private and community based providers that worked perfectly on non cloud environments. Today, we will discover how to deploy a compute vm in a KVM host. Not only that, but …

KVM lab inside a VirtualBox vm (Nested virtualization) using vagrant

Intro It has been a while since I wanted to blog about nested virtualization, but the good news is I now have a vagrant build to share with you so you can  vagrant it up:). KVM started to interest me as soon as I learned that Oracle allowed for hard partitioning on KVM boxes if …

Create a local Windows10 VPN bastion using a vagrant box

Intro There are many examples online on how to create a linux vagrant box including mine. But not so much around windows boxes. The easiest way?  just shop around in Vagrant Cloud, identify a windows box, and spin it using vagrant up. Thatโ€™s exactly what I did but I faced a problem after the trial …

Vagrant tips: How to automatically adjust the Time Zone of your vagrant box

Intro I was playing with my Linux vagrant boxes lately and I realized I was always spinning third party boxes that had a totally different time zone (Europe/UK mostly). Up until now I never bothered as I have used bunch of those from vagrant Cloud for years. I sometimes notice, and think of using a …