Love automation and virtualisation. Have a passion for programming.
When developing I love code-server, the docker, web based implementation of visual studio code. Although I can use Visual Studio Code on the desktop, one of the benefits for me is, that using code in the browser forces me to do everything in code, there is no backdoor to run Ansible code in the LAB […]
If you followed the post on installing Odoo 13 you are now ready to add a theme to the Odoo installation. In this post I will guide you through the settings you need to take to implement this. Oke, let’s get started guys. Step 1. Download or buy a theme Goto your Odoo installation and […]
In this blog I will show you how to install Odoo version 14 on your Synology NAS. I have another post where I installed Odoo 13 on Synology and this is an updated version for the version 14, posted in october 2020. Docker is amazing. Odoo is also amazing. It’s a cool open source ERP […]
This post describes how to stop Oracle using Ansible code. Nobody wants to login anymore, into a vm, using a prompt, bah… really. We want to use code, for example Ansible to stuff. Stopping Oracle takes two steps. One, stop the listener, two stop the database. First we will check if the database is running. […]
Wanting to get started with Ansible? Already have a Centos machine up and running or want to use a Centos machine? This post will provide a guided installation to get you up and running in no time. Lets get started In 3 steps we will have Ansible installed on your Centos 8 machine. Step 1 […]
Non-technical users without password lifetime Ever got this as a security check remark? This is how I solve that in the ansible task: Run you code again. In the AMS8 Lab I use AWX, which I love. You can rerun, rerun until your done just from within the GUI. If you now go back to […]
In this blog I will show you how to install Odoo version 13 on your Synology NAS. Once you have done that, you can implement a cool backend theme for Odoo 13. There is now also a newer version of this post for installing Odoo 14 on your Synology NAS. Docker is amazing. Odoo is […]
While deploying new VM’s is easy with Ansible, I kept on struggling with setting the hostname. There is Ansible documentation to use vmware_vm_shell module to set the hostname. The following is stated on their help page. Whatever I tried, I could not manage to get it working. It dit not error but just didn’t work. […]
Working with Ansible is cool. To be able to work quickly with Ansible on AWS it can be handy to use a dynamic inventory. This has some real benefits: You don’t need to edit the inventory by hand No more typo’s or ip mismatches Automated is always better 😉 To do this you create an […]
Although the autostart option is available within ESXi by default. This will not result in the VM being started after a reboot of the ESXi host. So if you want to enable autostart on the VM, keep on reading. Lets get started! First, let’s enable it for the specific VM. Go to the Actions -> […]