Exploring Proxmox, KubeVirt, and OpenShift Virtualization as Enterprise-Grade Replacements for VMware vSphere/NSX

For many years, VMware has led the way in enterprise virtualization thanks to its comprehensive portfolio—ESXi, vSphere, and NSX—which collectively handle everything from virtualization to software-defined networking (SDN). Lately, though, VMware’s evolving business decisions have left some organiza...

Decrypt YaML files with single Ansible Vault encrypted variables

It is common practice to leverage the Ansible Vault’s encrypt_string feature to encrpyt single values in Ansible variable files. While particularly useful for keeping all the values of one configuration together, rather than splitting off the secrets and managing multiple files, the downside is that...

Speeding up mass templating in Ansible

In this article, our systems engineer Sandro Bollschweiler provides insights into how to speed up templating in Ansible. The idea was derived from repeatedly observed situations at various customers that all executed long-running loops, presumably historically grown, instead of simplifying routine...

Kubernetes – What C-Suite executives need to know

Leading industries and organizations have been embracing digital transformation to guide their business strategies for many years. Businesses, that were slow to adapt, or had not even started were forced to rise to the occasion with the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. Quick adaptation to the new nor...

CLOUD AUTOMATION – A reality that is not built automatically (or comes integrated into cloud software)

Automation was always intended to be a big part of cloud computing. The idea was for automated, on-demand services that can scale dynamically as the demand increases. What many people don’t realize is that for a service to become automated, it has to be brought to that point through hard work and ex...