Streamlit powered What To Watch App A comon conversation in the house after we’ve finshed work and eaten begins, “What shall we watch…” This is often followed by browsing the various apps for streaming providers, trying to find something that we had been watching, want to watch or just searching for inspiration.  Sometimes it feels […]

Data is the new oil Data is the new oil, or so it is stated almost everywhere.  What that means is open to interpretation, it could mean anything from unlocking data is the key to driving revenue or it could mean that data is buried beneath many layers and difficult to extract. I enjoy working […]

Revisiting VMware PowerShell Find VMs with Memory Reservations Back in March 2021 I wrote a quick one line PowerShell snippet to find memory reservations for a friend that wanted a simple and quick way to return objects that had reservations.  I extended the one liner to also return VM objects that have either CPU or […]

Police API Stop and Search lookup with Streamlit Following on from the quick API demo I built for the Vehicle Enquiry Service API, I wanted to revisit some work I’d previously done that used the UK Police Data API along with metabase and other technologies to help interrogate public policing data. Using the streamlit library […]

Vehicle Enquiry Service API Lookup Demo The Goal To build a web based application that allows the retrieval of vehicle information from the UK DVLA Vehicle Enquiry Service API and package that in a container for simplified distribution.  A Vehicle Enquiry Service API Lookup Demo if you like.  I’m building this because I find it […]

Pets, Cattle, Ants Pets vs cattle as an analogy to manage IT assets and cloud infrastructure is a decade old.  Even before this observation became commonplace, this is something that I’d seen first-hand.  When I came into the IT industry, I was often supporting assets named after Knights of the Round Table, Lord of the […]

PowerShell – Discover Secure boot enabled Hosts As sometimes happens someone from the community got in touch to ask me the question below. “I’m currently banging my head against the proverbial trying to understand the Get-EsxCli command. What I am after is a listing of Secure-boot Enabled or disabled against all are ESXi hosts using […]

This week I spent some time working through the excellent guides from Saintdle to build new TKG management and workload clusters in Azure. I could write up my own how to and deployment guide here, However, Dean has done a fantastic job of documenting the deployment of the TKG resources within Azure, look no further […]

I got asked the following today. “Can I install PowerShell 7 on Windows 10, but still use VMware PowerCLI 12 ?” Based on the public compatibility matrix documentation for VMware PowerCLI 12.0 the question was prompted because the answer is ostensibly no. Because of this table in the documentation under Installation Prerequisites; OS Type .NET […]

After having an unintentional break from blogging after a busy period I’m excited to start a new series. This is all going to be able how to navigate the world of IT as a millennial or generation z plus whoever’s next, I’m not claiming to have all the answers but I hope after spending the […]