This is the third blog post in a series to introduce infrastructure admins and engineers to Terraform and to explain how to use it to manage on-prem physical infrastructure in a datacenter. It is highly recommended that you quickly review the previous post before proceeding with this one. […]
Most of the Terraform content out there targets developers and public cloud. In contrast, this blog post is the second in a series that focuses on Terraform as an automation tool for system and storage admins and infrastructure engineers operating physical hardware. After the introduction to Terraform we […]
As I search the the internet for “Terraform” I see plenty of examples for AWS, Azure, GCP and other public clouds. Developers seem to use it a lot to provision virtual infrastructure and applications in public cloud, but what does it mean to you and me, system admins […]
In the ever-evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, the incorporation of domain-specific knowledge into language models (LLMs) is not just a lofty goal—it’s a mission-critical aspect of model performance. This is where fine-tuning and Retriever-Reader (RAG) come into the picture, two powerful approaches with distinct methodologies for imbuing models […]
The European Union has introduced a new framework for the development and use of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The AI Act – which The European Parliament passed the AI Act on June 14, 2023., aims to ensure that AI is developed and used in a way that respects fundamental rights and freedoms, such […]
This is the final instalment of a series of 3 posts about creating a dynamic inventory using Dell CloudIQ. As discussed in previous articles, CloudIQ gathers insights about all your Dell infrastructure and it provides a REST API that allows us to extract that data programmatically. This for […]
This is the second of a blog series on Ansible dynamic inventories. I was looking for some information about dynamic inventories as part of a project and I realized that even though there are a few articles out there, there is little detailed content specially around building your […]
This is the first of a 3 part series on Ansible dynamic inventories. I was looking for some information about dynamic inventories as part of a project and I realized that even though there are a few articles out there, there is little detailed content specially around building […]
In this post we demonstrate how the CloudIQ REST API can be leveraged to create a Prometheus exporter. CloudIQ CloudIQ is an AIOps platform for Dell infrastructure. This is provided free of charge on a SaaS basis for all kinds of infrastructure from Dell technologies. Hence, it offers […]
This is a very important and powerful feature in Grafana. Unfortunately, when one searches in Google the top hits tend to be Grafana official documentation, which more often than not is very formal. There are many people out there that learn by seeing examples. That’s the purpose of […]