DevOps: VMs lifecycle management with Vagrant

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My ultimate goal as a DevOps engineer is providing solutions focusing on aligning IT systems to company’s culture and business processes.  Limiting the time spent on creating bespoke tools and scripts that not all sysops are able to understand or maintain properly.  Any custom tool is hard to maintain without a basic software engineering background and  it needs a proper design, documentation, QA and all diligence and discipline required along the way.

From imperative to declarative

To achieve this result I need to shift from a developer mindset where is imperative (creating flows) writing programs or automation scripts to declarative,  specifying just the desired state of a system in a YAML or JSON files that are a “lingua franca” between devs and sysops providing an up-to-date documentation that can be safely managed on a SCM (like GIT).

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PowerShell Learning and Security Features

Learning PowerShell is really a fast process (especially if you’re not new to programming) where you can be productive in a matter of days or in a month of lunches as Don Jones and Jeffery Hicks said.

But in my humble opinion, there aren’t many online resources that make you pay enough attention on how to run scripts and configure the environment properly in order to leverage all the technology features that Powershell and Windows environment are capable of.

So I’ve decided to add some articles to conquer this problem and help you on your journey, it’s an interesting subject for students and professional developers/it pros at any level of experience.

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