Posts in 2023
Privacy Policy
Tuesday, May 23, 2023 in News
Last Updated: January, 2024 Privacy Policy of Open Infrastructure Services LLC Overview We at Open Infrastructure Services LLC respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we …
FastAPI/Starlette OIDC Authentication
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 in Technical
This post demonstrates how to validate a bearer token issued by an oidc provider. Assume the oauth flow is handled downstream. Starlette’s AuthenticationMiddleware is used to attach a SimpleUser and AuthCredentials instance to each request. …
New Puppet Service Offerings
Thursday, February 23, 2023 in News
TL;DR: Open Infrastructure Services (OIS) is proud to announce several new Puppet service offerings intended for customers of varying size, from hundreds to millions of managed nodes. The commonality that unites the three of us at Open Infrastructure …
Posts in 2018
Welcome Nate McCurdy
Monday, December 03, 2018 in News
Open Infrastructure Services is growing! I’m excited to announce Nate McCurdy, has joined Open Infrastructure Services as a Cloud Infrastructure Consultant. Nate brings over a decade of experience helping companies with their digital …
Help Wanted
Wednesday, April 18, 2018 in News
Open Infrastructure Services is hiring! We have a number of exciting projects on the horizon and are looking for talented infrastructure engineers. If you’re experienced with, or have an interest in cloud infrastructure automation and helping …
Posts in 2017
Update ESXi 6.5 to U1 over SSH
Wednesday, November 22, 2017 in Technical
Updating ESXi 6.5 to 6.5 U1, I encountered the following error: [root@esx:~] esxcli software profile update -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml -p ESXi-6.5.0-20170702001-standard [InstallationError] …
ESXi 6.5 Single USB Thumb Drive
Wednesday, November 22, 2017 in Technical
I have a goal of booting an ESXi host from a single 32GB USB thumb drive. No other internal storage should be required for this firewall application. This is an ideal setup as there are no moving parts or cables to come unplugged. USB thumb drives …
Welcome Gary Larizza
Saturday, October 21, 2017 in News
Open Infrastructure Services is growing! I’m excited to announce Gary Larizza, has joined Open Infrastructure Services as a Principal Consultant. Gary and I first started working together on Puppet back in 2010 in Portland, Oregon. From that …
Posts in 2016
Puppet Enterprise Node Classification Backup & Restore with ncio
Sunday, August 21, 2016 in Technical
I’m happy to announce ncio, a small command line utility to backup and restore Puppet Enterprise Node Classification data. A customer recently needed to automate the process of backing up and restoring Puppet Enterprise. Most of the work …