I decided to put this down on “paper” as I always forget get how to set this up (guess I don’t do enough). The following provides you with instructions on how to logon to your servers with out needing to enter your password every time, instead it will use your public SSH key. …

This is a copy of the Cisco blog series written by me and published on cisco.com. This is the final in my three part post; the first discussed how our expectations of how we consume things has changed, while the second discussed how we can use stack designer to deploy a complete sandboxed …

This is a copy of the Cisco blog series written by me and published on cisco.com. In my first post I covered how our consumption expectations have evolved and we expect to get access to things much quicker. So lets assume for this post we are developing an application that will enable our business …

I’ve finally got a blog post published (will be a series of when I’m finished) on another site. I needed to create one that was far less technical than the posts you tend to find here. This was surprisingly challenging for me as I needed to approach it from a very different angle. I …

I was explaining my terminal configuration the other day to a colleague so decided to document what I have done. History I have been using Linux (Unix back in the day) for many years and for the last couple of years my primary work machine has been a Mac (Mac Air and Mac Book Pro). Over the years …

This is a copy of the Cisco blog series written by me and published on cisco.com. It’s nice to write a blog that will be seen by more than the handful who usually read my personal blog (I should probably advertise it a bit more!). I work within the data centre and cloud automation/orchestration …

While this is my 1st post on this site about Docker, and I’m sure ill write an introduction at some stage, I assume you are aware of the concepts as I have jumped straight into the CLI of Docker. The main reason for this is to; Help digest the content of a course I have just been on. As a …

The Rest API that you can use to access both UCSD and ICFB have similar origins therefore they work in a similar way. I have written blogs on how to access the API but thought it would be useful to break down the key elements involved in the calls. In the URL syntax 3 values are specified; opName - …

I will do a write up on Intercloud Fabric (ICF) in the near future however as I was playing with the API I thought I would detail those first. The ICF API works very much in the same way as the UCS Director API currently works (not surprising as the base code has the same origins). I won’t go …

Over the last year one of my main focuses has been around data centre automation and over this time I have found more and more customers either looking or actually embracing automation. This is great news as I have always seen the great value in this (maybe the lazy side of me coming out). Which is …