PowerShell WebRequests

PowerShell and AS3 I have been doing some AS3 content lately and in a customer environment I only had powershell available. Generally I use python, so this was a nice opportunity to sit down and use Invoke methods in powershell to post AS3 content. Here is the baseline script I developed. This is using Powershell 5.1 and is accounting for self-signed certificates, to allow the system to interact, as by default powershell 5.1 doesn’t have the ignore flag for the two Invoke requests I’m using. ...

June 7, 2024 · 2 min · 233 words · Me

Horizon AS3

I was introduced to F5 AS3 doing a migration for a customer recently. For deploying new applications on an F5 LTM, this seems to be a pretty slick solution when you’re considering infrastructure as code. The entire configuration can be contained in a json file, which will simplify checking it into some kind of repository. One application I’ve been tasked with helping customers deploy is Vmware Horizon. Vmware has a very prescriptive F5 deployment guide which spells out the steps in great detail. I figure this is an optimal app to deploy with an AS3 template, so that’s what I’ve done. Typically these customers deploy Horizon, and AppVolumes on the same F5, so this template deploys both. ...

July 11, 2022 · 3 min · 619 words · Me