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Building better software on schedule with DevOps
DevOps makes IT departments more efficient and makes their employees happier – but what is it? We describe some basic ingredients of the DevOps recipe.
Distributed storage with Sheepdog
The Sheepdog distributed storage tool exhibits pronounced doggedness and deserves appropriate attention, benefiting projects such as QEMU and OpenStack.
Disaster recovery for Windows servers
Need to fix a Windows server? We'll discuss some techniques for getting your system back. You'll also learn some tricks for Active Directory and Exchange.
Hardware MFA: Death to the password!
Around since the 1960s, passwords are still the mainstay for authentication. The good news is you have alternatives in hardware multifactor authentication.
ZFS on Linux helps if the ZFS FUSE service refuses to work
The new version 10 of FreeBSD can cause Linux admins problems when attempting to reconstruct data from ZFS pools. The solution comes courtesy of the ZFS on Linux project.
Multifactor authentication from FIDO
The FIDO Alliance is working to build open solutions for the future of authentication.
Port Knocking
To ensure that the data on your computers remains accessible only by you and those with whom you want to share, we look at the advantages of combining TCP Wrappers and port knocking.
Save and Restore Linux Processes with CRIU
With CRIU, you can freeze the current state of a process and save it, then bring it back to life and continue from the point at which it was frozen.
Nagios Passive Checks
Why spam yourself with useless notifications every time a script completes successfully? You can use Nagios to screen the notices and just send the ones that need action.
Live Kernel Update Tools
Two projects by Red Hat and SUSE – Kpatch and kGraft – attempt to patch the kernel with security updates on the fly. We look at features in these two tools and their suitability for production use.
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