Most of the Terraform content out there targets developers and public cloud. In contrast, this blog post is the second in a series that focuses on Terraform as an automation tool for system and storage admins and infrastructure engineers operating physical hardware. After the introduction to Terraform we […]
As I search the the internet for “Terraform” I see plenty of examples for AWS, Azure, GCP and other public clouds. Developers seem to use it a lot to provision virtual infrastructure and applications in public cloud, but what does it mean to you and me, system admins […]
This is the final instalment of a series of 3 posts about creating a dynamic inventory using Dell CloudIQ. As discussed in previous articles, CloudIQ gathers insights about all your Dell infrastructure and it provides a REST API that allows us to extract that data programmatically. This for […]
This is the second of a blog series on Ansible dynamic inventories. I was looking for some information about dynamic inventories as part of a project and I realized that even though there are a few articles out there, there is little detailed content specially around building your […]
This is the first of a 3 part series on Ansible dynamic inventories. I was looking for some information about dynamic inventories as part of a project and I realized that even though there are a few articles out there, there is little detailed content specially around building […]
In this post we demonstrate how the CloudIQ REST API can be leveraged to create a Prometheus exporter. CloudIQ CloudIQ is an AIOps platform for Dell infrastructure. This is provided free of charge on a SaaS basis for all kinds of infrastructure from Dell technologies. Hence, it offers […]
I have been talking a lot lately about using ServiceNow as a tool to deliver unified end-user experience and governance for multi-cloud architectures. Most organizations today have multiple clouds public and private. This hopefully helps provide the best suitable landing zone for every workload. However, the mainstream approach […]
In this blog post we will explore how to order items from a ServiceNow catalog using the ServiceNow REST API. There are a few examples out there that use “REST API Explorer” inside ServiceNow. I will focus here on how to do it from an external tool. In […]
As the use of cloud computing continues to grow, more and more organizations are adopting a multicloud strategy. This means that they are using multiple cloud providers, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. This can be a great way to get the best of both worlds, but […]
We have published a few videos in the IaC Avengers YouTube channel about automation using Ansible and how this can be integrated into an ITSM tool like ServiceNow to provide a cloud-like experience for private infrastructure. In the last two videos we have even demonstrated how to treat […]