Automation – Geek and I

AWS VPC Endpoints for instances without Internet access

By mike April 6, 2018 April 6, 2018 0 Networking, Security, Technology, Virtualware Automation, AWS, Security, Terraform

Example code to set up AWS VPC Endpoints for private networks.

AWS GuardDuty via Terraform and Python

By mike March 24, 2018 March 24, 2018 0 Security, Technology Automation, AWS, Security, Terraform

Getting GuardDuty operational in a master/member implementation using Terraform (and CloudFormation stacks) and Python.

Using Ansible to update Linux distributions

By mike March 8, 2016 March 26, 2016 0 Software, Technology Ansible, Automation, Linux, Ubuntu

Very simple play to do updates to RPM and DEB based systems.

Ansible reboot Debian/Ubuntu systems in sequence (update 08/18/2018)

By mike January 27, 2016 August 18, 2018 0 Software, Technology Ansible, Automation, Linux

Ever need to reboot a group of hosts in a controlled fashion? Automatically? Here is how to do that via Ansible.

Ansible v2.0 vs Windows Update

By mike January 26, 2016 March 7, 2016 0 Software, Technology Ansible, Automation, Microsoft

Ansible 2.0 was recently released and came with many updates dealing with the Windows module. What better way to start using it then to create a playbook to do Windows updates and automated reboots!