Author: Gabe

My name is Gabriel Rojas and my passion is Data Science and Automation. I have been adding tools to my belt for over 12 years. I feel blessed because I found my passion at a young age and have had great mentors throughout my life. Currently i am being focus on continuous delivery, continuous Integration,, infrastructure as a code, Data Engineering and Data Science What i love about my career that this profile is already history because there will be a new technology or new challenge that i will have embarked on.

How to add a second interface to specific EC2 instances using Python3

On February 1, 2017February 20, 2017 By GabeIn AWS, PythonLeave a comment

AWS offers a lot of different SDKs to configure resources in AWS. This means that you can use your favorite language to code against AWS API like Java Ruby, C++, etc. In my case I decided to use Python3 because of the Boto3 library. I decided to use Boto3 because it provides a low level …

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How to get started with Chef Automate and AWS OpsWorks

On December 4, 2016 By GabeIn AWS, CHEF, PowerShellLeave a comment

As you may be aware this month during the AWS conference it was announced AWS OpsWork for Chef Automate. You may be wonder what this means for you and how it helps. I think this is a easy way to get started with CHEF and get your organization excited about the product. Now, if you …

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DR as a Service using Azure

On October 30, 2016February 20, 2017 By GabeIn ARM, Azure, Hyper-V, PowerShellLeave a comment

Before getting into DR as a service(DRAAS), let me give you my personal opinion about the cloud and why we should create or move workloads to the cloud. The cloud has brought a lot of benefits to businesses and it has help how humans consume services and businesses has been disrupt in no time. There …

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How to set up SMT to manage servers on-premises, AWS, etc. from Azure for free

On October 2, 2016 By GabeIn Azure, PowerShell, Server management tool, smt, Windows Server 2016, WMF 5Leave a comment

Let's star with what SMT is. SMT (Server Management Tools) is the new way to manage servers within azure. SMT can manage servers on Azure, AWS, premises, etc; of course there are some minimum configurations that needs to be done but it is very straight forward. The following requirements needs to meet before configuring SMT …

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PowerShell and Linux

On August 19, 2016August 19, 2016 By GabeIn Linux, PowerShell3 Comments

Now that PowerShell is open source and available on Linux, I went ahead and adventure to see what cmdlets are available on Linux. Let me show step by step on how to install PowerShell on a RHEL 7 machine and play with some cmdlets. Make sure wget or curl is installed using "sudo yum install …

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CI using AWS, Jenkins, Git and PowerShell

On June 27, 2016 By GabeIn AWS, Continous Integration, Jenkins, PowerShell7 Comments

During the last two years there have been a lot of discussions about DevOps and winops (DevOps on the Windows stack). Personally, I think it is a little challenging to do DevOps in the Microsoft stack because the tools were not available before but now are becoming available and overtime it will be second nature. …

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When to use .NET namespaces within PowerShell

On March 28, 2016February 20, 2017 By GabeIn PowerShellLeave a comment

There have been some debate regarding when to use .net namespaces within PowerShell. Some people will call .net classes all the time just because they are used to write in C#, C++, etc. Just keep in mind the code you write most likely will be used by other people, so be conscious about your audience. …

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