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Terraform, Destroy Provisioners and Pre-Staging Octopus Deploy Tentacle Certificates

At work we've spent the last 12 months or more rebuilding our platform in Terraform. We previously had automation around deploying the VMs themselves (and Puppet would take over the configuration when the machines came up), but other stuff such as setting up Virtual Networks, VPN gateways and routing, Domain

Slinging Puppet code on Windows

(My) Tools of the Trade If you spend any significant amount of time writing Puppet modules or manifests and adding YAML config data for Hiera, you're going to want some linting and validation tools in your arsenal. Here's mine: The Base Software * Atom - A great editor from the people

When is a Fact not a Fact?

When it's sorta wrong. That's when. The :ipaddress fact is one of a bunch of core facts that Facter provides by default. The Facter documentation states that, for a Windows host, this fact is populated according to the following: * On Windows, it attempts to use the socket library and resolve