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Nick Schmidt

I am a network engineer based out of Alaska, pursuing various methods of achieving SRE/NRE

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Solutions Architect, Cloud Platform Infrastructure

VM Deployment Pipelines with Proxmox

VM Deployment Pipelines with Proxmox

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Starting from scratch with Netbox IPAM

Starting from scratch with Netbox IPAM

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Manage Linux patching with Ansible and Netbox!

Manage Linux patching with Ansible and Netbox!

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Abstracting DNS Record Management with Ansible and Jinja 2

Abstracting DNS Record Management with Ansible and Jinja 2

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Build and Consume Alpine Linux vSphere Images

Build and Consume Alpine Linux vSphere Images

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Apollo 13's "Failure is not an option", and how non-engineers misinterpret it

Apollo 13's "Failure is not an option", and how non-engineers misinterpret it

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Internet Load Balancing with pfSense

Internet Load Balancing with pfSense

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Handoff to Day-N Automation with vSphere Content Libraries and Netbox

Handoff to Day-N Automation with vSphere Content Libraries and Netbox

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Circumventing Coder's block and starting a new project

Circumventing Coder's block and starting a new project

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Why wait? Eventual Consistency and Reliability

Why wait? Eventual Consistency and Reliability

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Python Virtual Environment Setup in Jenkins

Python Virtual Environment Setup in Jenkins

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Mellanox `nmlx5_core` driver `4.23` issues on ESXi 8.0 Update 1

Mellanox `nmlx5_core` driver `4.23` issues on ESXi 8.0 Update 1

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API Conversations and Why They're Important

API Conversations and Why They're Important

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Escape Plato's Cave to build better IT infrastructure

Escape Plato's Cave to build better IT infrastructure

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Automate Cisco IOS/IOS-XE documentation with Ansible (with examples)

Automate Cisco IOS/IOS-XE documentation with Ansible (with examples)

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Document Networks as Code with D2!

Document Networks as Code with D2!

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Document vSphere as Code with D2!

Document vSphere as Code with D2!

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Diagram as Code with D2!

Diagram as Code with D2!

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Enable ToFU (Trust on First Use) with OpenSSH

Enable ToFU (Trust on First Use) with OpenSSH

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Deploy vSphere VMs with Ansible!

Deploy vSphere VMs with Ansible!

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Why Automate? VM Deployment with vSphere's REST API

Why Automate? VM Deployment with vSphere's REST API

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What happens to packets with a VMware vSphere Distributed Switch?

What happens to packets with a VMware vSphere Distributed Switch?

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Security patches are available for VMware vCenter 8.0 - Let's try the new vCenter Lifecycle Manager!

Security patches are available for VMware vCenter 8.0 - Let's try the new vCenter Lifecycle Manager!

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Why Automate? Programmability is about solving new problems without fear of failure.

Why Automate? Programmability is about solving new problems without fear of failure.

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Tweak Application behaviors with NSX ALB

Tweak Application behaviors with NSX ALB

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Track Certificate Expiration with Jenkins and Python 3!

Track Certificate Expiration with Jenkins and Python 3!

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Gathering and Using Data from Cisco NX-OS with Ansible Modules

Gathering and Using Data from Cisco NX-OS with Ansible Modules

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Using cloud-init with vSphere and openSUSE 15.4

Using cloud-init with vSphere and openSUSE 15.4

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Identity theft has gotten out of hand. Here are basic ways to protect yourself.

Identity theft has gotten out of hand. Here are basic ways to protect yourself.

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NSX Data Center 4.0.0.1 is now available!

NSX Data Center 4.0.0.1 is now available!

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The Role of Trust and Failure in Information Security

The Role of Trust and Failure in Information Security

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Scale datacenters past the number of VLAN IDs with NSX-T Tier-0 and Q-in-X

Scale datacenters past the number of VLAN IDs with NSX-T Tier-0 and Q-in-X

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Different Methods to carry 802.1q tags with VMware vDS and NSX-T

Different Methods to carry 802.1q tags with VMware vDS and NSX-T

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Network Experiments with VMware NSX-T and Cisco Modeling Labs

Network Experiments with VMware NSX-T and Cisco Modeling Labs

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Vendor interoperability with multiple STP instances

Vendor interoperability with multiple STP instances

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Cisco Modeling Labs

Cisco Modeling Labs

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Deploy Root Certificates to Debian-based Linux systems with Ansible

Deploy Root Certificates to Debian-based Linux systems with Ansible

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Cloud-Scale Networking: NSX Datacenter Hierarchical Tier-0s, blending telecom with cloud

Cloud-Scale Networking: NSX Datacenter Hierarchical Tier-0s, blending telecom with cloud

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VMware NSX-T and Ansible

VMware NSX-T and Ansible

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Bogons, and how to leverage public IP feeds with NSX-T

Bogons, and how to leverage public IP feeds with NSX-T

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GitOps with NSX Advanced Load Balancer and Jenkins

GitOps with NSX Advanced Load Balancer and Jenkins

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Leverage Idempotent, Declarative Profiles with the NSX-ALB (Avi) REST API

Leverage Idempotent, Declarative Profiles with the NSX-ALB (Avi) REST API

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The winds of change in cloud operations, and why integrations like NSX Data Center 3.2 + Advanced Load Balancer are important

The winds of change in cloud operations, and why integrations like NSX Data Center 3.2 + Advanced Load Balancer are important

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NSX-T 3.2 and NSX ALB (Avi) Deployment Error - "Controller is not reachable. {0}"

NSX-T 3.2 and NSX ALB (Avi) Deployment Error - "Controller is not reachable. {0}"

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NSX-T 3.2 and NSX ALB (Avi) Deployment Error - "Controller is not reachable. {0}"

NSX-T 3.2 and NSX ALB (Avi) Deployment Error - "Controller is not reachable. {0}"

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VyOS and other Linux builds unable to use `vmxnet3` or "VMware Paravirtual SCSI" adapter on vSphere

VyOS and other Linux builds unable to use `vmxnet3` or "VMware Paravirtual SCSI" adapter on vSphere

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VyOS and other Linux builds unable to use `vmxnet3` or "VMware Paravirtual SCSI" adapter on vSphere

VyOS and other Linux builds unable to use `vmxnet3` or "VMware Paravirtual SCSI" adapter on vSphere

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Why Automate? Reliability Approaches with the VMware NSX-T API

Why Automate? Reliability Approaches with the VMware NSX-T API

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Get rid of certificate errors with Avi (NSX-ALB) and Hashicorp Vault!

Get rid of certificate errors with Avi (NSX-ALB) and Hashicorp Vault!

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Get an A on ssllabs.com with VMware Avi / NSX ALB (and keep it that way with SemVer!)

Get an A on ssllabs.com with VMware Avi / NSX ALB (and keep it that way with SemVer!)

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Static IPv4/IPv6 Addresses - Debian 11

Static IPv4/IPv6 Addresses - Debian 11

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VMware NSX ALB (Avi Networks) and NSX-T Integration, Installation

VMware NSX ALB (Avi Networks) and NSX-T Integration, Installation

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vCenter - File system `/storage/log` is low on storage space

vCenter - File system `/storage/log` is low on storage space

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VMworld 2021 is right around the corner! Here are my top 10 sessions!

VMworld 2021 is right around the corner! Here are my top 10 sessions!

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Managing DNS Servers with Ansible and Jenkins (Unbound, BIND)

Managing DNS Servers with Ansible and Jenkins (Unbound, BIND)

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World WiFi Day 2021!

World WiFi Day 2021!

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XML, JSON, YAML - Python data structures and visualization for infrastructure engineers

XML, JSON, YAML - Python data structures and visualization for infrastructure engineers

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Troubleshooting with VMware NSX ALB/Avi Vantage

Troubleshooting with VMware NSX ALB/Avi Vantage

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VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer - Installation

VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer - Installation

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Leveraging Hyperglass and NSX-T!

Leveraging Hyperglass and NSX-T!

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