Adventures in IT Administration

There is a pretty good amount of chatter around IT infrastructure these days regarding buzzwords like "serverless", "containerization", "infrastructure as code", "agile", "devops", and the like. Through the next series of articles on Kubernetes, I hope to unravel the tightly wound tangle of technologies and concepts surrounding the next generation of infrastructure management.

When studying for certifications while also trying to maintain a healthy home and work life, time is often a limiting factor. When you only have a very small fraction of your week to construct and configure your lab environment, automation can be a life-saver. Enter automating Hyper-V virtual machine creation. My end goal was to have a web app that would take inputs of some parameters and then create a VM based on those. Realizing I was way in over my head with web dev skills lacking, I settled on a powershell GUI script instead. I started with a small script that would create a VM from a powershell console: $DCName = read-host "Server Name" $VHDPath = "C:\VM\$DCName\$DCName.vhdx" new-vm -MemoryStartupBytes 2GB -Generation 2 -NoVHD -Name $DCName Set-VM -name $DCName -ProcessorCount 2 New-VHD -Path $VHDPath -Parentpath "C:\VM\WinSrv2012R2\WinSrv2012Temp\WinSrv2012R2.vhdx" -Differencing Add-VMNetworkAdapter -VMname $DCName Get-vm $DCname | Add-VM...