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 ...

Jack Wallen takes you through the process of installing the Ansible configuration management system on the latest release of Ubuntu Server. Ansible makes it much easier for busy admins to manage a ...

If you talk about software automation with developers and devops, there’s a good chance that Chef and Puppet will come up in conversation. In the last 18 months or so another name has joined them: ...

It's fair to say that dipping into the world of self-hosting has been a slow learning curve for me. I've tried a fair few methods, copying files manually, running scripts and more, all accompanied ...

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As configuration management tools go, Ansible is one of the easiest to learn. Plays live in playbooks, which are simple to write once you master YAML formatting and Ansible structure. Editor's note: ...

DevOps: What is it, and how can it help your business? Inspired by the world of just-in-time manufacturing and widely practised in 'greenfield' IT organisations such as web-scale businesses and ...

Ayush Pande is a PC hardware and gaming writer. When he's not working on a new article, you can find him with his head stuck inside a PC or tinkering with a server operating system. Besides computing, ...

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 ...

Consistent configurations enable the many machines, servers and applications across an organization to function properly. Effective configurations also bolster security and performance. A ...