About a year ago, I published a small tool to compare two VMware vRealize Orchestrator packages file: vRO Package Diff. Initial version was a simple python script accepting 2 files as arguments and without any input controls.

Today, I publish a v2 of the tool with the following changes:

• vro-package-diff is now a Pypi …

The systemd daemon allows to manage custom services and run a script as a daemon service if it needs to be executed continuously (For instance: a REST API server).

Create the unit file

Create a unit file with the extension .service on the following path: /etc/systemd/system (For instance: …

I have recently published a draft tool to provide a table-formated diff of two vRealize Orchestrator packages.

Project is available on GitHub project and will evolve in futur to support more package item's types and to provide better information about differences.

Installation …

I'm currently working to deploy quickly OpenStack based training lab to provide a platform for practical exercises for training sessions.

According to the hosted training session, the needs may differ significantly and we need to quickly clean and recreate a "training" tenant.

I have developed a quick helper …

In order to fully configure a virtual machine after a clone of OVF deployment, it may be useful to use settings from virtualization layer in the guest OS: for example to run Guest OS customization as already discussed in this blog.

Today, we will focus on OVF properties.

Presentation of OVF properties

If you deploy …

A quick tip to easily generate random password from a bash command line.

Add the following lines to your bashrc file:

1alias genalphanumpasswd='tr -cd '\''[:alnum:]'\'' < /dev/urandom | fold -w30 | head -n1'
2alias genpasswd='tr -cd '\''[:graph:]'\'' < …

Powershell is a very usefull tool when you have to work on a Windows operating system. It help's a lot in automation of recurring tasks and provide an easy way to extract informations in custom format. But the default powershell command window is very very... ugly...

Here are some customizations I do when I need to use …