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Time-series-based monitoring with Prometheus

As Prometheus gave fire to mankind, the distributed monitoring software with the same name illuminates the admin's mind in native cloud environments, offering metrics for monitored systems and applications.
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MySQL is gearing up with its own high-availability Group Replication solution

Oracle recently introduced Group Replication as a trouble-free high-availability solution for the ubiquitous MySQL.
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© Sila Nimkittikul, 123RF.com

Useful tools for automating network devices

Armed with the right tools, you can manage your network infrastructure both automatically and effectively in a DevOps environment.
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Lead Image © Galina Peshkova, 123RF.com

ZAP provides automated security tests in continuous integration pipelines

Despite the abundance of tools that test code and help improve the effectiveness of a continuous integration pipeline, automated security testing is much more difficult to get right than it might appear.
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Lead Image © larisa13, 123RF.com

Software-defined storage with LizardFS

Standard hardware plus LizardFS equals a resilient, flexible, and configurable POSIX-compliant storage pool.
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Lead Image © Thomas Reichhart, 123RF.com

Managing Vim plugins

We look at some tools that can help take the pain out of managing plugins.
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Lead Image © Philip Kinsey, 123RF.com

Working with objects in PowerShell

This workshop helps admins understand the object-oriented structure of PowerShell.
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Lead Image © Dan Barbalata, 123RF.com

Avoiding KVM configuration errors

Virtualization solutions isolate their VM systems far more effectively than a container host isolates its guests. However, implementation weaknesses in the hypervisor and configuration errors can lead to residual risk, as we show, using KVM as an example.
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VMware vRealize Automation 7

We look at VMware's tool for managing and provisioning cloud infrastructures.
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Sync identities with Microsoft Identity Manager

Learn how Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 can help sync identities in the local AD as well as Azure AD and Office 365.