All-in-one DevOps VM

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

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 don’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. That’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 …