I spent a considerable amount of time working through the provisioning scripts for my RKE2 nodes. Each node took between 25-30 minutes to provision. I felt like I could do better. Check the tires A quick evaluation of the process quickly made me realize that most of the time is spent in the full install… Continue reading Speeding up Packer Hyper-V Provisioning
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A big mistake and a bit of bad luck…
In the Home Lab, things were going good. Perhaps a little too good. A bonehead mistake on my part and hardware failure combined to make another ridiculous weekend. I am beginning to think this blog is becoming “Matt messed up again.” Permissions are a dangerous thing I wanted to install the Azure DevOps agent on… Continue reading A big mistake and a bit of bad luck…
Packer.io : Making excess too easy
A story on how what I thought would be a simple migration to Azure DevOps turned into tools that support my experimentation habit.