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Roles are the most complicated and yet simplest aspect of
Ansible to learn.

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Playbooks make Ansible even more powerful than before. more>>

Where do IT fundamentals fit in our modern, cloud- and abstraction-driven
engineering culture?
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Finally, an automation framework that thinks like a sysadmin. Ansible,
you’re hired. more>>

Generate enterprise-grade SSH keys and load them into an agent for control
of all kinds of Linux hosts. Script the agent with the Parallel Distributed
Shell (pdsh) to effect rapid changes over your server farm.

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Why stress over losing that expensive personal or work laptop? Buy a cheap
one for risky situations.

In a previous article, I wrote about how to prepare for a vacation so you aren’t
disturbed by a work emergency. As part of that article, I described how to
prepare your computer:
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Worried that your server will go down? You should be. Here are some
disaster-planning tips for server owners. more>>

Read on for ways to help reduce the chance that your vacation will be interrupted by sysadmin issues.
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I’ve written about and trained folks on various DevOps tools through the years, and
although they’re awesome, it’s obvious that most of them are designed from the
mind of a developer. There’s nothing wrong with that, because approaching
configuration management programmatically is the whole point. more>>

A few articles ago, I started a Sysadmin 101 series to pass down some fundamental
knowledge about systems administration that the current generation of junior
sysadmins, DevOps engineers or “full stack” developers might not
learn otherwise.
I had thought that I was done with the series, but then the WannaCry
malware came out and exposed some of the poor patch management practices still more>>