More and more schools and organizations are taking advantage of sign-in tools from Microsoft Azure and Google for their authentication needs. These cloud-based [...]
As other blog posts on our site have mentioned, IPv4 addresses are becoming increasingly difficult to obtain. To make the situation more difficult, [...]
In last week's blog, I talked about familiarizing yourself with the OpenStack components. This week, I will focus on Configuration Management Systems (CMS), [...]
A few years ago, you would have been hard-pressed to have an entire conference dedicated to configuration management. Now, we have several conferences [...]
While almost all interactions with computers and devices nowadays is through a graphical user interface, or GUI (point and click mouse actions, multi-touch interfaces), command-line interactions are still quite popular in the IT world. [...]
The more I work with cutting edge technology ‘ which, for me, means software that is still being heavily developed and doesn’t have good documentation yet, or software that isn’t commonly used ‘ the more I find Internet Relay Chat (IRC) to be helpful. [...]
Two Puppet Labs team members have recently published an online book on how to write types and providers for the configuration management tool Puppet. Cybera System Administrator, Joe Topjian, provided an expert review of the book. [...]