Articles from ADMIN Issue 43
I'm sure I'm not the only one holding an $800+ mobile phone that will be obsolete in two years. You know, just in time for the contract to run out. Technology has a very short shelf life. I don't like that aspect of very expensive technology. I have an iPhone 7, but now the iPhone 8 and the iPhone X are both available. There's a lot of pressure to have the latest and greatest model of cell phone, tablet, and computer. Who can afford to upgrade once a year when new models hit the market?
CentOS describes itself as "… a community-supported distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by Red Hat for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)." Tails is a specialty Live Linux system designed for easy access to the TOR anonymity network.
Electron app vulnerability, WordPress sites infected by malware, Torvalds calls Intel's patch garbage, AMT flaw in Intel chips allows attacker to create a backdoor, and first malware for Mac OS in 2018.
Google developer advocate Kelsey Hightower shares his enthusiasm for open source and the Kubernetes container orchestration project.
Team members often need certain information to authenticate against servers. You don't want to save this secret data in plain text, but you don't want to retype it every time, either. How can you share these secrets?
Want to keep your teams connected even when they are disconnected? RetroShare, SparkleShare, and I2P are free tools that support chat, data sharing, and other collaboration services.
Sure you've heard about Amazon Web Services, but have you tried it? This article shows how to configure a web server and mirrored back-end database for a small-to-midsized business environment.
Set up network-attached storage and manage it from a web interface with Rockstor, the easy-to-install and free Linux distribution that uses the still new Btrfs filesystem.
Jira, Confluence, and GitLab are very popular DevOps tools and often form the basis for agile work flows. With the right Ansible playbooks, Ubuntu can be turned into an agile work center.
Application releases can take place several times a day. Terraform helps you roll out virtual machines automatically in your data center or in the cloud, and you adapt the manual only when it changes.
