In this post we will go over my simple Home Assistant washing machine notification that I setup in Home Assistant. I’ve been using Home Assistant now for a couple of months and have been very pleased with it. Home Assistant is in active development and updates come out multiple times […]
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Optimizing Linux virtual machine on Hyper-V
Introduction on optimizing Linux virtual machine on Hyper-V Historically on the internet people said running Linux on Hyper-V isn’t the best choice and you should choose another hypervisor. In the last couple of years Microsoft improved Hyper-V alot since the Windows 2008R2 days. The modern version of Hyper-V is fully […]
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Bootstrap your Linux server with Ansible
Introduction Like me a lot of you homelabbers will probably roll out multiple Linux servers for production or test purposes. Alot of these tasks repetitive tasks. To make your deploying easier and take less time I will share my Ansible playbooks that I use to do almost all of the […]
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Automate PfSense Configuration Backup via curl
Introduction to PfSense Configuration Backup Configuring backups is one of the critical parts of a healthy system environment. PfSense has multiple options to setup configuration backups. Since recent updates pfSense has the option to configure the AutoConfigBackup Service that is build in the software. This is a great and easy […]
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Installing VMware PowerCLI on Linux or macOS
Introduction PowerCLI is a command-line interface for managing and automating all aspects of vSphere management, including networking, storage, VMs, guest OS, and more.PowerCLI functions as a collection of PowerShell modules that contain more than 700 cmdlets (commands) to manage VMware infrastructure. PowerCLI runs on top of PowerShell. PowerShell used to […]
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