I am a Cloud DevOps Engineer having worked with VMware, Microsoft and Linux systems in CSP/MSP environments since 2012.

I started automating repetitive tasks with PowerShell and Bash in 2012. Since 2017 I have been developing Cloud Automation and Self-Service utilising VMware vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) and vRealize Automation (vRA).

Since 2019 I have been working with both AWS & Azure Public Cloud, optimising and automating solutions in multi-tenant environments.

I created this blog to document issues I have experienced and share Cloud automation solutions.

I am a vExpert. The vExpert program is VMware’s global evangelism and advocacy program, recognising the people who have made some of the most important contributions to the VMware community. I am also recognised as a vExpert in the vExpert Cloud Management & vExpert Cloud Provider sub-programs.

Tag: jq

Software Component Properties in vRA

Published by luke on 2nd July 2020

So you are used to using vRA software component properties. You therefore know how powerful they are for performing Guest OS operations during a build request. They can be seen by the user. which is the issue. That is fine if that’s the intention (such as initial password). It can be pain if you want to expose internal properties to a Guest OS. This post explains how to be able to remove software component properties…

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Using jq in Bash to manage JSON content

Published by luke on 22nd April 2020

No doubt you already use Bash for a wide range of tasks, consequently are already aware it’s purely a procedural scripting language and not object oriented? For the majority of tasks this is fine, however there are times when objects are useful; enter jq, a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor. This post explains how to use jq to convert data into JSON and therefore an object. Say you have a file in /root/ with…

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