I ran into a Terraform Error Locking State error recently after experiencing a temporary loss of network connectivity whilst in the middle of running a terraform plan to deploy some…
The Linux Tail Command is often a go to tool when troubleshooting a Linux system or many other devices such as VMware ESXi hosts or Linux/Unix based appliances. The tail…
This may seem like a question you would already know the answer to, but when you are connecting to Linux systems via SSH rather than interacting with a desktop environment…
The Terraform count meta argument allows you to deploy multiple resources using the same Terraform configuration block. This is useful when you need to deploy things like virtual machines (perhaps…
The Terraform for each meta argument allows you to use a map or a set of strings to deploy multiple similar objects (such as virtual machines) without having to define…
In this short tutorial I will show how to check if a file exists, and then copy a file if it exists using PowerShell (or move a file if it exists…
The Linux uptime command is often used when troubleshooting a Linux system. One of the first puzzles to solve when investigating an outage may be to check if a system…
Over the last couple of years Zoom has become extremely popular, either as a tool to use whilst working from home, or to keep in touch with friends and family.…
In this article I will walk through how to do a git reset hard. When working with git on a project with multiple developers there tends to be a lot…
Alphanumeric is a description of characters that is both letters and numbers. Typically you will see this term when setting a username on a website or elsewhere- when there is a restriction…