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		<title>Getting Started with Aria Automation Config &#8211; Part Four</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[An Introduction to Jobs In a series of posts, I am going to take you through setting up the Automation Config product, manually enabling management of deployed systems, creating a custom desired state and eventually integrating with your Cloud templates. This specific post will take you through the&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Getting Started with Aria Automation Config &#8211; Part Three</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/getting-started-with-aria-automation-config-part-three</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2022 12:46:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Manually Deploy Salt Minion In a series of posts, I am going to take you through setting up the Automation Config product, manually enabling management of deployed systems, creating a custom desired state and eventually integrating with your Cloud templates. This specific post will demonstrate how to install&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Getting Started with Aria Automation Config &#8211; Part Two</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/getting-started-with-aria-automation-config-part-two</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2022 18:32:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=1414</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[External Authentication In a series of posts, I am going to take you through setting up the Automation Config product, manually enabling management of deployed systems, creating a custom desired state and eventually integrating with your Cloud templates. This specific post will cover up configuring LDAP integration with&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Getting Started with Aria Automation Config &#8211; Part One</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/getting-started-with-aria-automation-config-part-one</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=1401</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Initial Deployment The Aria Automation Config system allows you to define the applications, files, and other settings that should be present on a given system. Once configured, the system is continuously evaluated against a configuration and changes are made as and when needed. Now tightly integrated into the&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">1401</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>Getting Started with Aria Automation Config</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/getting-started-with-aria-automation-config</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=1441</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[In a series of posts, I am going to take you through setting up the Aria Automation Config product (formerly known as Salt), manually enabling management of deployed systems, creating a custom desired state and eventually integrating with your Cloud templates (and hopefully even more!) Series Overview Part&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">1441</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>Preparing An Ubuntu 22.x VM for Cloud-init &#038; VMware Aria Automation</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/preparing-an-ubuntu-22-x-vm-for-cloud-init-vmware-aria-automation</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=1473</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Overview I recently wanted to create a template in vSphere that I would use from VMware Aria Automation. I did not want to use vSphere customisation specifications, but rather cloud-init (and just cloud-init). There are many posts out there all differing from one another on how to prepare&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">1473</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>Outbound Notifications for LifeCycle Manager</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/outbound-notifications-for-lifecycle-manager</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2022 13:35:45 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[LifeCycle Manager]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=1292</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[The release of vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.6 contained a new feature that may have flown under your radar, but I believe is a great addition to an already great product. Introducing Outbound Notifications! Introducing Outbound Notifications This new feature enables you to configure Lifecycle Manager to send&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">1292</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>Updating vRA 7.6 Management Agent Certificates</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/updating-vra-7-6-management-agent-certificates</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2021 11:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=1269</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Recently I have been helping a customer replace their self-signed Management Agent certificate in vRA7.6 with a new self-signed one (old one is expiring). To be clear this is the Management Agent certificate on the Iaas servers. VMware provide documentation on how to replace the certificate. But, to&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">1269</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>Ansible &#038; vRA integration in the palm of your hand</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/ansible-vra-integration-in-the-palm-of-your-hand</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2021 10:46:31 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Ansible]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=1039</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[If you just want the script without the reading, download it here Integrating Ansible into vRA is a fantastic feature and not that hard to setup. VMware document the process themselves, and there are other numerous blog posts covering it as well, like this one or this one.&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">1039</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>Backup Your Code Stream Pipelines.. With A Pipeline!</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/backup-your-code-stream-pipelines-with-a-pipeline</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2021 14:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Codestream]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Introduction In this post I will be providing you with a Code Stream pipeline that is capable of exporting all pipelines in your Code Stream instance, committing them into a GitHub repository and pushing the commits back to GitHub. &#160; Assumptions I have made a few assumptions that&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>vRA 8.3 REST Api Calls With Code Stream</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/vra-8-3-rest-api-calls-with-code-stream</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2021 22:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=944</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Introduction In this post I will be providing an example of how to make REST API calls from Code Stream obtain an API token from the vRA 8.3 REST api obtain a list of Cloud Accounts registered with vRA filter for a specific Cloud Account on vRA &#160;&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>vRA 8.3, Code Stream Pipelines and Hashicorp Packer = Automated Centos7 Template</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/vra-8-3-codestream-pipelines-and-hashicorp-packer-automated-centos7-template</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2021 13:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=895</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Introduction In this post I will be detailing a simple Code Stream pipeline that will build a new Centos7 template using Packer. The key points to this blog post are as follows: Use of Code Stream pipelines to organise sequential and parallel tasks Use of Packer to create&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>VMware vRA 8.3 and Puppet Enterprise Integration Configuration</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/vmware-vra-8-3-and-puppet-enterprise-integration-configuration</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2021 09:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Puppet]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=883</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Having installed Puppet Enterprise in my home lab I decided I should hook it up to my vRA 8.3 installation using the native integration feature. Doing a quick Google search yielded a clear and simple blog post that outlined how to configure it for vRA 8.1. Following this&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Extensibility &#038; PowerShell &#8211; Playing the Property Game</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/extensibility-powershell-playing-the-property-game</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2020 22:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=859</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Recently I have been having some fun and games with vRA 8.2, in particular, with the extensibility capabilities. With the introduction of PowerShell support for vRA actions, I thought I would have a little play and see what I could break. I&#8217;m On A MetaData Hunt.. Ok, so&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">859</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>Terraform &#8211; In Action with VMware vRA 8.x</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/terraform-in-action-with-vmware-vra-8-x</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Of late I have been playing with Terraform and the vRA 8 provider. Although I have found quite a few bugs with the provider (I&#8217;ll log those soon) it certainly is a great start! I have captured a quick demo below where I configure settings on a brand&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Puppet Learning VM on vSphere</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/puppet-learning-vm-on-vsphere</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=854</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Puppet provide a really great learning experience free of charge for everyone in the form of the Puppet Learning VM. The VM includes Puppet Enterprise, Puppet Server, Bolt and a bunch of virtual clients (thanks to incorporating Docker) for you to use to become more familiar with the&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">854</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>Postman Samples For vRA 8</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/postman-samples-for-vra-8</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2020 13:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=830</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Attached to this post you will find a JSON file that can be imported into Postman.  The import will give you a collection called &#8216;AutomationPro-vRA8&#8217; which contains 19 example requests for using against a VMware vRA 8 install. Although there are many more requests that can be made,&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">830</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>VMware vRA8 &#8211; Are People Missing The Point?</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/vmware-vra8-are-people-missing-the-point</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2020 10:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=816</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Since the announcement of VMware vRealize 8, migration has been a popular topic. I don&#8217;t mean deployment of vRA8 itself; that is handled [editor: very nicely I might add] by the new version of VMware Lifecycle Manager. Follow the wizard and sooner rather than later you will have&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">816</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>VMware vRA8 &#8211; Adding Microsoft Azure As A Cloud Zone</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/adding-ms-azure-as-a-cloud-zone</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2020 23:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=809</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[VMware vRealize Automation 8 is a leap forwards and certainly a far cry from what we all knew as vRealize Automation 7.x. A new code base with a new look, if you have any familiarity with VMware vRealize Automation Cloud (formerly Cloud Automation Services) software as a service&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">809</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>The Importance Of Standards</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/the-importance-of-standards</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2020 21:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Process]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=755</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Recently I have been working with a financial industry customer who is all in on Automation, however it became apparent quite early on that they haven’t standardised their processes. Now, in day to day running’s and operations of a business – particularly IT – this might not be&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">755</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>Terraform &#8211; In Action</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/terraform-in-action</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2019 13:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Hashicorp]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=744</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[&#160; I thought I would share two videos [editor: very basic, excuse the quality!] showing the use of Terraform to manipulate vSphere infrastructure. I recommend watching both videos &#8216;full screen&#8217; for best effect [editor: and with popcorn if you have any, preferably sweet] &#160; Video1 &#8211; vSphere Infrastructure&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Licensing Made Simple</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/terraform-and-vsphere-licensing-made-simple</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=704</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Summary This tutorial will show you how to apply one or more licenses to vCenter through the use of Terraform. This can be expanded on to create a module that can be used across multiple vSphere environments. &#160; Structure First of all, we are going to create a&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">704</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>Simple Remote State Management With Terraform Cloud</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/terraform-and-simple-remote-state-management-with-terraform-cloud</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=663</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Summary In this blog post we will look at configuring Terraform Cloud to remotely host our Terraform state file. Terraform cloud has multiple levels of subscriptions available. The good news is, we only need the free one! This post assumes that you have some Terraform config already setup.&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">663</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>Terraform and vSphere &#8211; Part Three</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/terraform-and-vsphere-part-three</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2019 09:33:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=654</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Summary This is part three of a series aimed at getting you going with Terraform in a vSphere environment.  The series will assume you understand the concepts of IaC and Terraform, at a basic level. In part one, we setup Terraform and created a basic definition to create&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">654</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>Terraform and vSphere &#8211; Part Two</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/terraform-and-vsphere-part-two</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2019 21:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=644</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Summary This is part two of a series aimed at getting you going with Terraform in a vSphere environment.  The series will assume you understand the concepts of IaC and Terraform, at a basic level. In part one, we setup Terraform and created a basic definition to create&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Terraform and vSphere &#8211; Part One</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/terraform-vsphere-part-one</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2019 21:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=621</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Summary This is part one of a series aimed at getting you going with Terraform in a vSphere environment.  The series will assume you understand the concepts of IaC and Terraform, at a basic level. We will start by getting setup with Terraform, creating a basic definition to&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Introducing Terraform</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/introducing-terraform</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2019 14:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=614</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[&#160; [editor comment: if you don&#8217;t know what Infrastructure As Code (IaC) is I recommend reading this post first] &#160; &#160; What Is Terraform Terraform is an open source tool that helps you provision, manage the state of and update, infrastructure. Terraform works by using Infrastructure as Code&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Introducing Infrastructure As Code</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/introducing-infrastructure-as-code</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Oct 2019 11:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://automationpro.co.uk/?p=594</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[&#160; IT Infrastructure.. love it or hate it, it forms the foundation of many companies operations. These days you are hard pushed to get a job anyway doing anything, that doesn&#8217;t require you to use a computer, mobile phone, email, websites, a word processor&#8230;. the list goes on.&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>vRA: To destroy or not to destroy&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/vra-to-destroy-or-not-to-destroy</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jun 2019 08:22:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I got caught out last week by something that I had not come across before. A customer has an environment comprised of vSphere, vRA, vRO.. the usual suspects. vRA and vRO and associated IAAS roles were all duplicated and sat behind a load balancer. Anyway, whilst re-writing some&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<post-id xmlns="com-wordpress:feed-additions:1">586</post-id>	</item>
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		<title>LogManager &#8211; Yet Another VMware vRO Logging Action</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/logmanager-yet-another-vmware-vro-logging-action</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2019 18:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://automationpro.co.uk/?p=549</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[Note: The download package has been updated with a new version of the action. The action now includes the workflow id, the path to the workflow and the current workflow execution token id to help tally logs sent to a webservice with an execution context on the server.&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Introducing MockSmart</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/introducing-mocksmart</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2019 17:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[MockSmart is a simple to use, Ubuntu based appliance that enables you to mock REST based API responses. In fact, you can quickly mock any REST based api and consume it from any of your favourite automation products or development environments. As long as it can make REST&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ansible Lab &#8211; Sample Files, Configuration Files &#038; Multiple Test Nodes (Part Three)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2019 10:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Note: This post presumes that you have completed the steps in the previous posts, starting with Ansible Lab &#8211; Getting Started &#160; Sample Files Did you know that when you installed Ansible it provided inventory and configuration file templates for you? Let&#8217;s take a look. On the Ansible server&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ansible Lab &#8211; Basic Configuration &#038; Our First Ansible Command (Part Two)</title>
		<link>https://automationpro.co.uk/ansible-lab-basic-configuration</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2019 15:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Note: This post presumes that you have completed the steps in the previous post Ansible Lab &#8211; Getting Started &#160; Creating Our Inventory File Now that we have our Ansible server and a Centos7 server node, we can run commands on the Ansible server to test connectivity. First&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>What Is Ansible In 5 Minutes Or Less?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2019 13:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What Is This? This is your 5 minute introduction to Ansible. On your marks, get set.. GO! &#160; What Is Ansible? Ansible is a software solution that provides the ability to automate software deployment and configuration management. It does this through using existing technologies such as SSH and&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Ansible Lab &#8211; Getting Started (Part One)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2019 09:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, getting started with a technology solution can be a bit daunting. I have to say that starting out with Ansible felt like that, however once you get started you realise how well thought out the solution is. Given half a day you can get up and running.&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Small, Medium or Large: There Is No One Size Fits All</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sam Perrin]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2018 09:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Getting started with Automation? Guest blogger Sam Perrin discusses t-shirt sizing and how to better estimate required effort and cost on your Automation Projects. An Automation Consultant, Sam works for Xtravirt Limited based in the UK, a company specializing in virtualization, strategies and solutions to help customers solve their&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>What is Cloud Automation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2018 22:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This is the first in a series of posts introducing Cloud Automation. Although there are already blog posts and articles discussing this, I have decided I should put my own thoughts across. People have different views on what Cloud Automation is. Here is mine in very simple terms.&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2018 14:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Let Me Set The Scene Finished watching the video? Good. Now then, let&#8217;s put you in the same shoes as John. Picture yourself with the following scenario. &#8216;You have teams of people working in your IT department. If you are lucky, some aren&#8217;t overworked and stressed. You, their&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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		<title>Behind Automation</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[paul_davey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2018 14:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I was lucky enough to partake in a podcast recently with colleagues Sam Perrin and Stuart Robinson of Xtravirt. If you want to learn more about automation then please check it out! This episode outlines: What is automation? The common reasons businesses are automating business processes. Some of&#46;&#46;&#46;]]></description>
		
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