Articles from ADMIN Issue 72
Just because it's new, doesn't mean it's better. How I learned to stop worrying and love the old containers.
OpenSSL has issued an advisory (https://www.openssl.org/news/secadv/20221101.txt) relating to two vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786), which affect OpenSSL version 3.0.0.
OpenStack has been on the market for 12 years and is generally considered one of the great open source projects. Thierry Carrez and Jeremy Stanley both work on the software and provide information about problems, innovations, and future plans.
The unprecedented hype surrounding OpenStack 10 years ago changed to disillusionment, which has nevertheless had a positive effect: OpenStack is still evolving and is now mainly deployed where it actually makes sense to do so.
Operators of an OpenStack environment need to know whether the environment is working and quickly pinpoint problems. We look at the basics of OpenStack observability in the Sovereign Cloud Stack.
As the major Linux distributors increasingly lean toward containers, many administrators have come to realize that containers are by no means a panacea for all their problems.
Versioning is a recommended approach to back up files as protection against hardware failures and user errors. To create versioned backups, you can use established backup programs or an open source tool that originates from the developer world: Git.
SoftEther is lean VPN software that outpaces the current king of the hill, OpenVPN, in terms of technology and performance.
The Windows subsystem for Linux runs graphical applications on Windows 11 out of the box, and Windows Subsystem for Android, out in preview at press time, shows that Windows can be a platform for Android apps. We look at the state of the art and help you get started.
A stress and benchmarking tool for websites controlled from the command line.