Mike Farah’s yq yaml processor has a a rich set of operators and functions for advanced usage. In this article, I will illustrate how to update deeply nested elements in yaml. This can be done for both known paths as well as arbitrarily deep paths. Sample yaml We will use the following yaml files to … yq: updating deeply nested elements
The Apple Virtualization Framework (AVF) provides the ability to run completely independent virtual machines on top of M family Apple Silicon. For example, you can run multiple versions of MacOS virtualized for validating an application or its dependencies against different environments. Additionally, cloning an existing VM (with little cost thanks to APFS copy-on-write) allows you … Mac: bare-metal virtualization on Apple Silicon with virtualbuddy
If you want a variable to reference another variable in Bash, that is possible using a concept called indirect reference. Below is a simple example where ‘varname’ contains the name of another variable ‘foo’. # our variable foo=bar # our reference varname=foo # the following syntax will ERROR and DOES NOT work !!! echo “${$varname}” … Bash: indirect reference to evaluate a variable value
If you have a simple directory containing multiple template files that should be generated on a target host, the ‘with_fileglob‘ lookup plugin provides an easy way to render them. Below is an example rendering all the files from the ‘templates’ directory of a role. – name: create file out of every file in template directory … Ansible: generating templates with deep directory structure using with_filetree
Mike Farah’s yq yaml processor has a a rich set of operators and functions for advanced usage. In this article, I will illustrate how to update a deeply nested element in yaml. Install yq Here are the steps for installing the latest yq on Snap enabled systems like Ubuntu/Debian. See the notes at bottom if … yq: update deeply nested elements in yaml
Anthos GKE on-prem is a managed platform that brings GKE clusters to on-premise datacenters. This product offering brings best practice security measures, tested paths for upgrades, basic monitoring, platform logging, and full enterprise support. Setting up a platform this extensive requires many steps as officially documented here. However, if you want to practice in a … Kubernetes: Anthos GKE on-prem 1.13 on nested VMware environment
Anthos GKE on-prem is a managed platform that brings GKE clusters to on-premise datacenters. This product offering brings best practice security measures, tested paths for upgrades, basic monitoring, platform logging, and full enterprise support. Setting up a platform this extensive requires many steps as officially documented here. However, if you want to practice in a … Kubernetes: Anthos GKE on-prem 1.11 on nested VMware environment
Anthos GKE on-prem is a managed platform that brings GKE clusters to on-premise datacenters. This product offering brings best practice security measures, tested paths for upgrades, basic monitoring, platform logging, and full enterprise support. Setting up a platform this extensive requires many steps as officially documented here. However, if you want to practice in a … Kubernetes: Anthos GKE on-prem 1.10 on nested VMware environment
Anthos GKE on-prem is a managed platform that brings GKE clusters to on-premise datacenters. This product offering brings best practice security measures, tested paths for upgrades, basic monitoring, platform logging, and full enterprise support. Setting up a platform this extensive requires many steps as officially documented here. However, if you want to practice in a … Kubernetes: Anthos GKE on-prem 1.9 on nested VMware environment
Update Dec 2021: I have written an updated version of this article for vCenter 7.0U1 and Anthos 1.9. Anthos GKE on-prem is a managed platform that brings GKE clusters to on-premise datacenters. This product offering brings best practice security measures, tested paths for upgrades, basic monitoring, platform logging, and full enterprise support. Setting up a … Kubernetes: Anthos GKE on-prem 1.8 on nested VMware environment
If you are running KVM on an Ubuntu server, you already have an excellent Type 1 virtualization engine. Luckily, if you need to test something specific to VMware you can always run ESXi 7.0 nested inside a KVM virtual machine. In this article, I’ll be using a bare metal server running Ubuntu and KVM as … KVM: Deploying a nested version of VMware ESXi 7.0 on KVM
Update Dec 2021: I have written an updated version of this article for vCenter 7.0U1 and Anthos 1.8. Anthos GKE on-prem is a managed platform that brings GKE clusters to on-premise datacenters. This product offering brings best practice security measures, tested paths for upgrades, basic monitoring, platform logging, and full enterprise support. Setting up a … Kubernetes: Anthos GKE on-prem 1.4 on nested VMware environment
Update Nov 2021: I have written a newer article that deploys ESXi 7.0U1. If you are running KVM on an Ubuntu server, you already have an excellent Type 1 virtualization engine. Luckily, if you need to test something specific to VMware you can always run ESXi 6.7 nested inside a KVM virtual machine. In this … KVM: Deploying a nested version of VMware ESXi 6.7 inside KVM
Update September 2022: Validated these instructions on Ubuntu 22.04 If you are running an Ubuntu host, you have multiple choices for a virtualization hypervisor. I have written up several articles on using VirtualBox, but now let’s consider a bare metal hypervisor like KVM. KVM is a type 1 hypervisor implemented as a Linux kernel module … KVM: Bare metal virtualization on Ubuntu with KVM