Assuming you are running Linux, you probably have a favorite or most-familiar Linux distribution; I suspect your first one. In my case, this would be the Debian distro and it's derivatives, such as Ubuntu or the Ubuntu derivatives such as Linux Mint or Pop!_OS. In an ideal world ...
more ...2019 is the year in which 'Boomer' has been selected as Van Dale Word of the Year. For those who missed it, a 'Boomer' is a person from the baby boomer generation or anyone older than the person using the word and the word grew wildly popular thanks to the ...
more ...As 2018 passed by recently, I decided I wanted to write down a little overview of the things I enjoyed the best in 2018. So here it is, my personal, opinionated, best of 2018 list for my own reference:
Puppet has come a long way since it's initial release in 2005, however, it has usually followed client-server architecture, together with its nemesis Chef (which later on released chef-solo for running masterless). A lot of the more recent configuration management tools such as Ansible and Salt dropped this client-server ...
more ...Triggered by multiple independent events, including (but not limited to) an opinionated blogpost describing The Evolution of Distributed Systems Management that got quite some readers from Hacker News, the Devops Weekly newsletter and probably created a bit of a stir in the Configuration Management community and things that I noticed ...
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