Archive
Author: Richard Bailey
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VMware vSphere: Practical Guide
VMware vSphere is a suite of virtualization products that provides a powerful, reliable, and scalable platform for running your business-critical applications. vSphere helps you to realize the full… Read the guide
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Fix Commit Message Missing Valid Issue Key
Fix Bitbucket or Jira commit-message issue-key errors safely with git log, soft reset, recommit, and hook-aware prevention steps. Read the guide
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Learn About Kubernetes (K8s) Objects
I recently completed the AWS EKS K8S training from AWS. The company I work for is going to be shifting as many workloads as possible to Kubernetes, so… Read the guide
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Move Terraform State Between AWS Accounts (Step-by-Step Guide): Complete Guide
If you need the general background on Terraform state, start with Terraform State Explained: Remote State, Locking, Backends and Best Practices. This page is intentionally narrower: it focuses… Read the guide
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Terraform Plan Output to File: Use -out Safely
Save Terraform plan output to a file, review it with terraform show, apply the exact saved plan, and handle .tfplan files as sensitive artifacts. Read the guide
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Portainer: How to Build a Docker Home Lab Setup
Update: Tested and Validated 30th December 2025 Portainer is a powerful, open-source management interface that allows you to build and manage Docker, Docker Swarm, and Kubernetes environments through… Read the guide
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CentOS 6 Yum Update: Vault Repo Fixes
Fix CentOS 6 yum update failures with vault repositories, understand the EOL risk, and plan migration to a supported RHEL-family Linux release. Read the guide
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How to Install Oracle 19c Client on CIS RHEL.
A guide to installing Oracle 19c Client on a CIS Hardened Image of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Are you looking for an unattended installation procedure? Check our other… Read the guide
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Terraform Migrate From Template_file Data Sources: Complete Guide
I stumbled across this problem when using a new MacBook Pro M1 CPU. I had some legacy code that used aws_template for a user data script. The template… Read the guide
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Steampipe AWS One-Liners: Useful Commands and Examples
Here are some useful Steampipe queries for AWS Need to know how to install Steampipe – see my blog post here. Turbot’s Steampipe AWS tools are great for… Read the guide
