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Load Balancing a Splunk Search Head Cluster

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A Splunk Search Head (SH) enables an analyst to query a Splunk Indexer for data in a distributed configuration. A Search Heads group that shares knowledge objects and settings is known collectively as a Search Head Cluster (SHC). Deploying a SHC provides high availability (HA) and many other benefits to your users. However, as you scale out … Read more

Ansible User Account Provisioning

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Whenever I stand up a new Linux machine, I always find myself doing the same four things:  Creating my main user account  Creating an ansible user account  Configuring sudoers  Copying over SSH Public Keys. Definitely, not something that evokes fun. I have tried various automation tools, but ansible has found a very special place in … Read more