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I was trying to retrieve a report in a Bitbucket instance. The return from the API contains event dates. However, the value looks strange. It is something like 1680143775227. The format looks like Unix Epoch Timestamp. But it was converted to a far future time in any online converters. The .Net action [System.DateTime]::UnixEpoch.AddSeconds() threw an…

Move Terraform Providers to Other Folders

Nov 6, 2022

in Automation, DevOps, IaC, public cloud, Script

Create a new control file with the name .terraformrc or terraform.rc in your profile folder. Add the following lines: Create the folder .terraform.d/plugin-cache in your profile folder. The providers will be downloaded to the cache folder when you run terraform init. If you don’t want to create the control file in the profile folder. Alternative…

Setup Terraform and Ansible for Windows provisionon CentOS

Apr 24, 2022

in Automation, DevOps, IaC, Script

Provisioning Windows machines with Terraform is easy. Configuring Windows machines with Ansible is also not complex. However, it’s a little bit challenging to combine them. The following steps are some ideas about handling a Windows machine from provisioning to post configuration without modifying the winrm configuration on the guest operating system.