How to Create a Foreman Node with Ansible Tower

Was working on a quick project, and hit a series of issues. The result of it is a Ansible playbook that will spin up a Foreman Node with Ansible on Centos8 Stream, with the correct firewalld ports enabled. In theory this should work on any dnf/yum package managed node. The playbook is available at my …

How to install pywinrm on a Centos Stream Machine

I was working on a quick task in Tower (AWX) and was receiving a connection error to an AD joined host. It dawned on me that I had yet to install the required python module pywinrm. It used to be easy on RHEL8 and CentOS 8 before stream. Now it seems that the RUST language …

Upcoming NAS and VMware Converged Build

Just a little update,  I currently have on order a new build.   To save power, I decided to converge my Xeon D NAS and my VMware Build. Just a teaser of the parts include  SuperMicro Xeon D Board with D-1537  64GB DDR4 6X 6TB He6 Sata Hard Drives 2.2TB HGST VIRIDENT FLASHMAX II At …