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HAProxy Odyssey: From NetScaler to BGP Anycast

HAProxy Odyssey: From NetScaler to BGP Anycast

From cutting cost-heavy Citrix nets to mastering BGP Anycast, my HAProxy journey shows how resilience, security, and automation evolve.

Stephane Thirion

23 Feb 2026 3 min read

Automating Citrix XML SSL Certificate Binding

Automating Citrix XML SSL Certificate Binding

A production-ready PowerShell script that automates SSL certificate binding for Citrix Broker Services. Includes validation, safety checks, and WhatIf mode.

Stephane Thirion

16 Feb 2026 6 min read

From SSH to API: Deploying HAProxy Data Plane API for Automated Load Balancer Management

From SSH to API: Deploying HAProxy Data Plane API for Automated Load Balancer Management

Replacing manual SSH configuration with HAProxy Data Plane API: how I automated load balancer management across an HA cluster using REST APIs and Ansible AWX.

Stephane Thirion

13 Feb 2026 5 min read

The Perfect Patch Management Duo: PatchMon + Ansible AWX

The Perfect Patch Management Duo: PatchMon + Ansible AWX

Learn how PatchMon and Ansible AWX work together to create a complete patch management solution with visibility and automation - managing 21 servers with 95% less effort.

Stephane Thirion

4 Feb 2026 9 min read

Automating Infrastructure Updates with Ansible AWX: A Complete Guide

Automating Infrastructure Updates with Ansible AWX: A Complete Guide

Managing system updates across multiple servers can be a time-consuming and error-prone task. In this article, I'll walk you through building a complete automated patch management solution using Ansible AWX

Stephane Thirion

3 Feb 2026 8 min read

Automating VMware VM Deployment with Ansible: Guide to Static IP Configuration - request

Automating VMware VM Deployment with Ansible: Guide to Static IP Configuration - request

Deploying multiple VMs with consistent configuration shouldn't require hours of manual clicking through vCenter. With Ansible's vmware_guest module, you can automate the entire process from VM creation to static IP assignment.

Stephane Thirion

4 Jul 2025 3 min read

Self-hosted ComfyUI install - Ubuntu 24.02

Self-hosted ComfyUI install - Ubuntu 24.02

How to Install ComfyUI on Ubuntu 24.04 in /opt/ComfyUI with GPU Support and Auto-Start

Stephane Thirion

6 Jun 2025 3 min read

From Hype to Reality: The AI Stack That Actually Matters

From Hype to Reality: The AI Stack That Actually Matters

The AI race isn’t just about large models. It’s about how businesses stack models, workflows, and trust to make real work better. Here’s where we challenge the idea that models don’t matter anymore.

Stephane Thirion

5 Jun 2025 3 min read

Ansible Playbook for Creating Multiple VMs with Sequential Naming in vCenter

Ansible Playbook for Creating Multiple VMs with Sequential Naming in vCenter

In this blog post, we will explore an Ansible playbook that creates multiple virtual machines (VMs) in a vCenter environment.

Stephane Thirion

11 Apr 2024 5 min read

Automating VM Deployment in VMware vSphere with Ansible

Automating VM Deployment in VMware vSphere with Ansible

This post aimed to provide a clear understanding of how the Ansible playbook functions for creating multiple VMs in a VMware vSphere environment.

Stephane Thirion

5 Apr 2024 4 min read

What is Ansible?

What is Ansible?

I've been tired of cloning my Ubuntu template to build again and again some Docker Swarm and Kubernetese node so I was looking for a quick and cheap way to automate these tasks. This is an ideal tool for homelab, it's lightweight and free !

Stephane Thirion

4 Apr 2024 3 min read

Oobabooga - text-generation-webui auto installation (Ubuntu 22.04.3)

Oobabooga - text-generation-webui auto installation (Ubuntu 22.04.3)

In this blog, we'll demonstrate how automation can make a complex tool like Oobaboga accessible to a wider audience by providing an auto-install script in this post. Let's do this

Stephane Thirion

28 Jan 2024 3 min read

Migrating FSMO roles Windows 2019 Server

Migrating FSMO roles Windows 2019 Server

Be careful, the Windows 2019 Server iso have been pulled out, it should be back shortly (Nov-2018) As Microsoft Windows 2019 became (almost) available, this is time again to move

Stephane Thirion

6 Nov 2018 3 min read

Set acls remotely to a VDI / RDSH Delivery Group

Set acls remotely to a VDI / RDSH Delivery Group

In the same way as the previous blog post, some more automation to maintain a VDI/RDSH environment, and get back to a controlled and clean environment. This blog is

Stephane Thirion

5 Apr 2016 2 min read

Remotely clean up Virtual Machines drives - XenDesktop

Following up the previous blogs XenDesktop XenApp 7.x – vmware / ad / delivery group notes and descriptions sync and Expand virtual machines hard disk – automation and continue in automated task, I

Stephane Thirion

4 Apr 2016 2 min read

Expand virtual machines hard disk - automation

Sometimes, at some customers’s place, with an infrastructure already in place (XenApp with PVS or XenDesktop VDI pooled with PVS) the D: drive is too small. The drive where

Stephane Thirion

30 Mar 2016 4 min read

XenDesktop XenApp 7.x - vmware / ad / delivery group notes and descriptions sync

Several times i had the need to synchronise Virtual Machine notes (vmware) with Active Directory Computer description. As in big environment, different team are managing each of these components, the

Stephane Thirion

30 Mar 2016 2 min read

XenApp 6.5 to XenApp 7.5 Migration (Machine)

XenApp 6.5 to XenApp 7.5 Migration (Machine)

Citrix will very soon offer a lot of scripts and tools to give the ability to migrate policies from a XenApp 6.5 farm to a XenApp 7.5, I’

Stephane Thirion

24 Apr 2014 3 min read