if I can even get 10% of the thousands of hits I've gotten over the past months to buy the fking book when I'm done.. I could probably afford to update my server environment.

@da_667

sorry i am ignorant, tell me the title of book pls

@thedevilsvoice The AVATAR project
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Architecting Virtual Labs
@da_667 do you ever use terraform
@thedevilsvoice
not yet. My last experience from hashicorp was packer/vagrant for making a metasploitable 3 VM.
@thedevilsvoice Let me tell you, I spent a whole fucking day trying to get Vagrant and packet to make the VM and midway through it was inexplicably stop working with a complete lack of errors from the stack trace that were valuable..
@thedevilsvoice /or/ It would randomly go to pick up a packer... package? fail, the script would continue and it'd be like watching a train wreck in slow motion.
@da_667 @thedevilsvoice packer certainly had its share of issues in early days, I've been using it with great success building vagrant/vmware RHEL and Windows boxes for $employer. Hit me up with questions if you try again! :)