Hi All,
I wonder, what kind of tools are you using for your day-to-day automation tasks?
My top / most used list:
- Chocolatey
- Boxstarter
- PowerShell
- Ansible
- Bash
What Automation tools are you using?
+15
+17At the moment mostly:
- Powershellscripts
- Batch scripts
Jochen (Joe) Meixner | Veeam Vanguard 2024 | Veeam Legend 2021 - 2024 | Veeam Certified Architect (VMCA) | Twitter: @JoMeix | BlueSky: @jmeixner.bsky.social
+21The main ones I use at the moment -
- Chocolatey
- PowerShell
- Terraform
Chris Childerhose - VMCA2024 | VMCE2023 | VMCE-SP2024 | Veeam Vanguard 8* | Veeam Legend 5* | vExpert 6* | VCAP-DCV/VCP-DCV | Object First Ace | Cisco Champion | Twitter: @cchilderhose | Blog Site – https://just-virtualization.tech
+22- Ansible
- bash
- PowerShell
- Chocolatey
VMCA2024, VMCE2023, VMCE2024-SP,CKA, LFCS, PCA,TARS
+8Pretty much just PowerShell for me, but I’m a bit of an automation newbie, so I’m open to options! Whatever tool works best for the task at hand.
Derek M. Loseke, Senior Systems Engineer | Veeam Legend 2022-2024 | VMSP/VMTSP | VCP6-DCV | VSP/VTSP | CCNA | https://technotesanddadjokes.com | @dloseke
+3- Ansible
- PowerShell
- Bash
- Terraform
- Gitlab-CI
I wonder if you can classify Chocolatey as automation tool …. nobody said apt, yum or zypper :D Though I am using chocolatey, too ;-)
+11I use Veeam Backup & Replication - It automagically starts jobs and is also able to trigger my Powershell scripts 🤣
Joking apart, I’m using Powershell and simple batch scripts and on Linux the good old bash. I don’t know if we can count AWS Cloudformation to it, but it also helps to setup testing environments.
+15SteveHeart wrote:
I use Veeam Backup & Replication - It automagically starts jobs and is also able to trigger my Powershell scripts 🤣
Joking apart, I’m using Powershell and simple batch scripts and on Linux the good old bash. I don’t know if we can count AWS Cloudformation to it, but it also helps to setup testing environments.
Whaha, yes VBR does some stuff automagically as well 🤣
CloudFormation is a method of deploying AWS environments, Infrastructure as Code. I would say YES that counts automation as well!
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+8Honestly most of what I use these days is powershell by way of VS Code. I also use the various swagger docs for Veeam products as well to help guide my calls and test capabilities. Enough that I keep them all as a pinned tweet!
https://twitter.com/k00laidIT/status/1364586142025322499?s=20&t=vDeDsTvPY_G3ZfsOiPBcCA
Jim Jones, @k00laidIT, AWS Community Builder, Cisco Champion, vExpert, Veeam Vanguard
+2The list has gotten longer…
PowerShell, Ansible, Terraform, Bash, GitHub Actions, Gitlab, Circle CI, ArgoCD
And getting back into Python after a few years.
Joe Houghes (@jhoughes) | Husband, Father, Solutions Architect, Geek | @DenverVMUG & @DenverPSUG leader | International Speaker | Microsoft MVP | Veeam Vanguard | vExpert (PRO) | Cisco Champion | Tanzu Vanguard | ex-Tech Field Day Delegate | ex-Veeamer (Inaugural MVP)
+1- MySQL / PHP (yes really! - I can do ALL the things by interacting with our RMM DB 😉)
- C#
- PowerShell
+13PowerShell is my top. Try to use more vSphere Operations.
Wolfgang | vnote42.net | @vNote42
+12Powershell is the only being used, too less at the moment...
#Veeam Legend 5* | VMCA 3* | VMCE 4* | VMTSP+ 2* | VMSP 2* | DCIE 2* | Loves Best Practices | Twitter : @NLosschaert
+2I’ve been using PowerShell so far.
Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert, VMware Certified Professional - DCV 7, Citrix Certified Professional Virtualization (CCP-V), ITIL Practitioner
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