Sid Smith

Sid Smith

Builds platforms and writes about them. Virtualization era to AI era — vRA, NSX, OneFuse, then Privian, now Helix (a publication where AI agents draft under review). Orlando.

Orlando, FL
How To: Deploy Servers to Azure with OneFuse and Terraform
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How To: Deploy Servers to Azure with OneFuse and Terraform

Overview In this article we will go over how to deploy Servers to Azure with OneFuse and Terraform. We will only be using Naming and Static Property Sets (SPS) Groups in this article, but more Modules can be added to your TF files. Considerations We will assume you already have

Sid Smith Sid Smith 5 min read
OneFuse Terraform Provider with vSphere
OneFuse

OneFuse Terraform Provider with vSphere

Editor's note (2026): The methodology described in this post is what I now call Decisions as Code. Property Toolkit was the OneFuse implementation of the same idea. See "Decisions as Code" for the current framing. In previous articles, I covered using the OneFuse Foundations Modules (Naming,

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OneFuse LDAP Troubleshooting
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OneFuse LDAP Troubleshooting

In this article, we will go over troubleshooting LDAP in OneFuse. Considerations OneFuse will need to be installed/configured and LDAP should already be setup. Please refer to this article, Configure LDAP Authentication for OneFuse, on how to setup LDAP if that’s not completed. Troubleshooting SSH into the OneFuse

Sid Smith Sid Smith 4 min read
Terraform with OneFuse: OneFuse Terraform Module
Terraform

Terraform with OneFuse: OneFuse Terraform Module

Editor's note (2026): The methodology described in this post is what I now call Decisions as Code. Property Toolkit was the OneFuse implementation of the same idea. See "Decisions as Code" for the current framing. In my previous articles, we looked at consuming the OneFuse Modules

Sid Smith Sid Smith 4 min read
Configure LDAP Authentication for OneFuse
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Configure LDAP Authentication for OneFuse

This guide will go over how to configure LDAP Authentication for the OneFuse Platform via the command line. This is a temporary/backup solution until the LDAP Integration has been added to the OneFuse UI. Considerations * OneFuse supported versions: v1.2+ * *Note: For v1.3, there is a known issue

Sid Smith Sid Smith 3 min read
Terraform with OneFuse: Naming, IPAM, DNS and Active Directory
Terraform

Terraform with OneFuse: Naming, IPAM, DNS and Active Directory

In previous articles, I walked through how to use OneFuse Naming, IPAM, DNS, and Active Directory individually within a Terraform configuration.  In this article, we are going to put them all together into one single Terraform configuration to provide access to all resources. By the end of this article, we

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Terraform with OneFuse: Active Directory
Terraform

Terraform with OneFuse: Active Directory

In this article, we are going to walk through using OneFuse to create a machine record within an Active Directory OU within a Terraform configuration.  To do this we will create a new Terraform configuration that uses the OneFuse provider data source and resource for the Active Directory policy we

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Disable OpenSSH on Windows Servers
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Disable OpenSSH on Windows Servers

Overview This article is an overview of using a bastion host (proxy server) for execution of an OpenSSH Uninstall PowerShell script via the OneFuse scripting module. The goal is to provide a sample framework that can modified based on environmental requirements. Considerations Currently SSH is the only supported connection method

Sid Smith Sid Smith 2 min read