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Simple Containerised Guacamole with SAML, LDAP, MFA (DUO) and SSE Deployment (Part 1 / 2)

Guacamole is legendary in the world of remote access solutions, combining a web front end, great user and connection organisation and flexible database and (historically) combined into a single host. This is post 1 of 2 about simplifying the deployment and shortening the time to deploy. Background If you aren’t aware of Guacamole it’s a…
Overview of Intersight Managed Mode Policy Types and Pools

This section details the policies which are used to make up a profile in Intersight, they are grouped into UCS Server, UCS Domain, UCS Chassis, HyperFlex Cluster & Kubernetes Cluster. Also listed are the available types of pools which can be created. UCS Domain & Service Profile Pools: UCS Server Policy Types: UCS Domain Policy…
Intersight Managed Mode (IMM) LAN Connectivity Policy

Guide to Intersight Managed Modes’ LAN Connectivity Policies
Intersight Managed Mode (IMM) Port-Policy Creation

Intersight Managed Mode (IMM) Port Policy Guide
Cisco Intersight Managed Mode (IMM) Setup Guide

Guide to the initial deployment of Intersight Managed Mode (IMM)
Digitisation in Healthcare

Currently there are 5bn people (67% of the population) using the internet daily. And every one of them rely on healthcare in one shape or form. In healthcare it is widely understood that to move patient care and services forward, we must break down siloes of information (lab systems, patient data, hospital systems, Point-of-care devices…
NSX-T Install on KVM

The following is a simple guide to deploying KVM and NSX-T on Ubuntu. NSX-T Support for Linux was a game changer, not limiting themselves to ESXi was a masterstroke as most new deployments were on Linux natively on HW, or as a VM. Windows application servers are a thing of the past, plus the advent…
Handy Docker Command Reference

Install Docker using: sudo apt-get install docker docker-engine docker.io containerd runc Initialise a swarm using: sudo docker swarm init Access a container shell/fs: sudo docker exec -it <containername> sh docker build -t friendlyhello . # Create image using this directory’s Dockerfiledocker run -p 4000:80 friendlyhello # Run “friendlyhello” mapping…
Simple K8s Cluster bringup

There are a lot of posts about deploying Kubernetes, loads of which are awesome, but long. So, here’s a simple method to deploy, the commands can even be consolidated into a single script for easy running. For a lab, you should probably also deploy DNS and DHCP Services, these commands should be run to build…
MultiPass Kubernetes Cluster Bring-Up Pt2

This is the second post in a two part series about making K8s Clusters quicker and simpler to deploy, the first part focussed on deploying on a Mac using Multipass, but actually I’ve used loads of different mechanisms to deploy the hosting container VM’s, which then kick off this script. I’ve probably post them…