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require 'chef-cli/policyfile_services/install'

def policyfile_to_berksfile(policyfile_path)
  pf = ChefCLI::PolicyfileServices::Install
         .new(policyfile: policyfile_path)
         .policyfile_compiler

  # ------------------------------------------------------------------
  # 1. Sources
  # ------------------------------------------------------------------

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import random

shuffle_key = "QRUzaKNB4V5pparzJWTa"

# Imagine we have a list of images that's 200k items long
frame_list = [*range(1,200000)]

# Shuffle the frame list with the key
random.Random(shuffle_key).shuffle(frame_list)

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DNS SRV with Terraform (On AWS Route53)

DNS SRV records are a little cryptic. Even when you create them, it's not particularly obvious what the information in the SRV record actaully means.

When creating the records with Terraform, you can for_each the resource to supply one or more maps that contain better descriptors of the SRV record's constituent components. See the example in the terraform snippet below. Refer here for a longer explanation.

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FROM public.ecr.aws/sam/build-ruby3.2:latest as builder

# Prereqs
RUN yum install -y git gcc gcc-c++ cpp cpio make cmake automake autoconf chkconfig clang clang-libs dos2unix zlib zlib-devel zip unzip tar perl libxml2 bzip2 bzip2-libs xz xz-libs pkgconfig libtool

# libjpg
RUN cd /root && \
    curl https://github.com/winlibs/libjpeg/archive/refs/tags/libjpeg-9c.tar.gz -L -o tmp-libjpeg.tar.gz && \
    tar xf tmp-libjpeg.tar.gz && \
    cd libjpeg* && \

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Installing pfSense on KVM in CentOS 8

We download the latest release of pfSense as a gzipped ISO, then extract it and pass it to virt-install to get the VM up and running. Interactive portions of setup are done with virt-install's native console redirection. This guide assumes you've already installed and configured KVM, and that you've created network bridges already.

Instructions

Find the latest release here.

Download the gzipped memstick-serial image from a mirror into a directory that KVM can access, then unzip it:

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Installing the Cisco vWLC on KVM using virt-install

Cisco has a few different guides for installing their vWLC on KVM, but most of them focus on oVirt-style installations that are heavy on hand-crafted XML and [what appears to be] the use of OpenStack. If you're just using a plain single-host KVM setup and want to install the vWLC in a VM, this guide is for you.

Instructions

First, download the vWLC KVM installation image appropriate for your setup. I'm going to use version 8.5.171.0 (you'll have to create an account to download it), and then transfer it to your KVM server:

AndrewBobulskys-MacBook-Pro:~ andrewbobulsky$ scp ~/Downloads/MFG_CTVM_LARGE_8.5.171.0.iso 10.0.25.2:/tmp                   100%  367MB  40.7MB/s   00:09    

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function Get-SshFingerprint {
  param( [string]$ssh_server )

  # Load WinSCP .NET assembly
  Add-Type -Path "${env:ProgramFiles(x86)}\WinSCP\WinSCPnet.dll"

  # Setup session options
  $sessionOptions = New-Object WinSCP.SessionOptions -Property @{
      Protocol = [WinSCP.Protocol]::Sftp
      HostName = $ssh_server

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Setting a default quality in Plex Media Player desktop

The Plex Media Player desktop application's default quality setting is in different places depending on the interface you're using. The Plex Web UI is used as a point-and-click interface, whereas the Plex Media Player TV UI is used as a remote-friendly interface.

Plex Web UI	Plex Media Player TV UI

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The Problem

We have a few packages we like to install through Amazon Linux Extras repo, but we discovered that this doesn't work right:

execute 'Enable java 11 via amazon-linux-extras' do
  command 'amazon-linux-extras enable java-openjdk11'
end

package 'java-11-openjdk'

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#!/bin/bash

which jq > /dev/null 2>&1
if [ "$?" -ne 0 ]; then
  >&2 echo Error: this script requires jq; exit 1
fi

which aws > /dev/null 2>&1
if [ "$?" -ne 0 ]; then
  >&2 echo Error: this script requires awscli; exit 1