DevOps
DevOps - plain/text (2/2)
One of the major misconceptions of DevOps is, that it is complicated and sophisticated. Quite the contrary is the case. It is also about reducing the cognitive load in a team and doing more with less.
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DevOps
One of the major misconceptions of DevOps is, that it is complicated and sophisticated. Quite the contrary is the case. It is also about reducing the cognitive load in a team and doing more with less.
DevOps
Many people think of DevOps as something technical, something complicated and hard to understand. But, it's quite the contrary. DevOps is based on methodologies like Lean or Kanban and aims to make the life easier. But what does this have to do with plaintext?
Ansible
Do you use Ansible? Maybe even in a pipeline or across teams? Chances are high that you might want to track your changes and last runs in a nice overview with ARA. Let's check out the nifty tool and investigate how it can help you with keeping on top.
Featuring
Luca is the brain behind awesome projects like Ansible Pilot and AI liberator. He also wrote a couple of books and is present on many community events. Let's find out what motivates Luca to be such a strong part of the community, maybe take a peek behind the scenes and learn about him as a person.
Podman
Podman is the daemonless, rootless drop-in replacement for Docker. Furthermore, you can manage containers on a remote machine without connecting to it first. With Podman's remote capabilities, this is just a matter of configuration files.
Ansible
Ansible is easy, simple, and powerful, right? Sure, and it is a pain to get it right. There are various tools that are meant to help you with Ansible. Let's take a look at Steampunk Spotter, a quality assurance tool, that makes it easy to improve your Ansible playbooks, roles, and collections.
Fedora
Are 6 months already over? It feels like yesterday that Fedora Linux 38 was released. Well, the new release looks really promising. We are finally having an option to boot without GRUB, Modularity is ceased, Linux Kernel 6.5 and much more.
DevOps
Working in a DevOps world means, that everything is automated, fully tested, made in one team, …, right? Well, no. It means that we are having a culture, that supports DevOps approaches. But it also means, that we are having a couple of conflicts, that need to be solved.
Golang
It's finally time for my very first programming article. In the past, you have seen articles about Ansible, Podman and Linux, mostly. But what about making your own program? In this article, we will get started with Go.
RaspberryPi
Right after the release of the Raspberry Pi 5, we are getting a new Raspberry Pi OS, based on Debian Bookworm. It features some pretty interesting changes on the Desktop, but also got nice features for the Lite variant.
Ansible
Ansible is a simple, yet proven way to automate your server configuration, cloud deployments and many other things. Yet, most people know Ansible on the command line, which is perfectly fine for CI/CD or if you like to work with text.
Gaming
About a year ago, I received my Steam Deck and wrote an article about the first impressions. The Valve Steam Deck is a nifty gaming console, running on Steam OS (based on Arch Linux). It comes in a portable gaming console format and should make it easy to carry your steam library around.
Podman
Podman is the rootless drop-in replacement for Docker, but how do you administer Podman containers, images and more with the browser? Let's check out Cockpit and Podman application for it.
Hardware
Two days ago (28th September 2023), the Raspberry Pi foundation announced the new Raspberry Pi 5. The device should feature double the speed with the new RP1 chip and will be available in for pre-order right now.
DevOps
When it comes to DevOps, most people think of cloud, containers, CI/CD and automation. Well, this is true to some degree, but these are only tools. One of the underlying fundamentals is a proper lifecycle.
Conference
Yesterday was the Ansible Community Day in Berlin. I have to say, it was a blast. Meeting the community, talking about all kind of tech-thingies (technical term) and connecting with experts is something I really enjoy.