{"id":1770,"date":"2018-12-21T09:29:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T09:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/?p=1770"},"modified":"2018-12-21T09:29:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T09:29:28","slug":"uk-national-vmug-conference-2018-automation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/?p=1770","title":{"rendered":"UK National VMUG Conference 2018 &#8211; Automation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Presented for my 8<sup>th<\/sup> Year at the UK VMUG Conference 12 weeks ago on all things automation. Always a big thanks to the VMUG team for allowing me to present. I brought my usual humour with me and even showed a prototype app I\u2019ve been working on called Project Hermes for putting a UI to automation tools that use JSON or YAML files to send instructions. Anyway, my sponsors listed below coughed up a ton of prizes and in the end only 21 people entered my competition and most people won 2 prizes and some 3 as I had that many. However, if you missed out Vembu are giving you a 2<sup>nd<\/sup> chance by filling in a survey found by clicking &gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vembu.com\/holiday-giveaway-vembu\/?utm_source=RickyElQaseem&amp;utm_medium=Analyst\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a>&lt;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway big shout out to the sponsors who donated prizes to my sessions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/turbonomic.com\/resources\/hybrid-cloud-intelligent-bursting-aws-microsoft-azure\/?utm_source=virtualizeplanet&amp;utm_medium=banner-ad&amp;utm_campaign=wp-path-to-hybrid-cloud&amp;utm_content=250x250\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Turbonomics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vembu.com\/free-vm-backup\/?utm_source=Ricky%20El%20Qasem&amp;utm_medium=banner&amp;utm_campaign=VM%20Back\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vembu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altaro.com\/vmware-backup\/ebook\/mastering-vsphere-free.php?LP=virtualplanet-Banner-ebook-mastering-vsphere&amp;Cat=SC&amp;ALP=ebook-mastering-vsphere-virtualplanet&amp;utm_campaign=ebook-mastering-vsphere&amp;utm_medium=banner&amp;utm_source=virtualplanet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Altaro<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/remotedesktopmanager.com\/?utm_source=VirtualizePlanet&amp;utm_medium=Banner&amp;utm_campaign=VirtualizePlanet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Devolution<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pages.unitrends.com\/vbe\/try-buy?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=VirtualizePlanet&amp;utm_content=vBE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unitrends<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youmakerobots.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouMakeRobots<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/2018-12-13_20-38-18.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1772\" src=\"http:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/2018-12-13_20-38-18-300x142.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/2018-12-13_20-38-18-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/2018-12-13_20-38-18-768x364.png 768w, https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/2018-12-13_20-38-18-1024x485.png 1024w, https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/2018-12-13_20-38-18.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presented for my 8th Year at the UK VMUG Conference 12 weeks ago on all things automation. Always a big thanks to the VMUG team for allowing me to present. I brought my usual humour with me and even showed a prototype app I\u2019ve been working on called Project Hermes for putting a UI to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,4],"tags":[91,53,36],"class_list":["post-1770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automation","category-vmware","tag-automation","tag-vmug","tag-vmware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":2429,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1773,"href":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions\/1773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/read.virtualizeplanet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}