A Hitchhikers Guide to SRS 1.0.0

Sometimes announcements tend to disappear in the cracks of time. When the Script Runtime Service for vSphere (SRS) 1.0.0 was announced, I had the feeling just that happened.

When version 1.0.0 of this open-sourced (!) product was released, I had expected much more buzz on social media from VMware PowerCLI users. 

This appliance does in fact bring an answer to a wish that many PowerShell/PowerCLI users have had for years: a “Scripting Host“!

This Hitchhikers Guide to SRS 1.0.0 post will show how I build my own customised SRS appliance, and how I use it to run PowerShell/PowerCLI scripts.

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Cloud-init – Part 5 – Running Containers

In this last part of this series (for now) we will show how to use containers to run your PowerShell/PowerCLI scripts on the deployed instances. And although technically not a ‘real‘ cloud-init post, I consider it related to Part 1Part 2 and Part3 in this series. 

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Cloud-init – Part 4 – Running Scripts

For now, the second to last part in this series. And although technically not a ‘realcloud-init post, I consider it related to Part 1, Part 2 and Part3 in this series. In this post I’ll show how you can run scripts on these ‘cattle‘ stations we just deployed.

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Cloud-init – Part 3 – Photon OS

In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series we used Ubuntu as the guest OS of our target instances. In Part 3 we will show how to use VMware’s Photon OS as our guest OS.

The main reason to use Photon OS is that it is open-sourced, it has a small footprint and it is optimised for VMware vSphere.

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