Open Source is more than just some cost-free software, where you can read the code. This category is about Open Source in general, tools, software, news, movements and Open Source projects.
Fedora
The Fedora project is maintaining different variants of Fedora Linux to fulfil different use cases. The Linux variant provides some features, specialized for servers and headless systems. Let's have a look at Fedora server and see what is different to CentOS Stream, Alma Linux or Fedora Workstation.
Ansible
Ansible can be used to configure and orchestrate a bunch of machines. As explained in a previous article, it is quite easy to write and maintain a simple inventory. Now let's add some variables to it, so we can maintain our infrastructure settings in a central place.
Nextcloud
On 6. July 2021 Nextcloud Hub 22 was released and introduced via a Live Stream event. During the session, the Nextcloud team demonstrated and explained some of the new features. Let's have a look, what's new!
Podman
Containers made it very easy to package and run applications on different Linux based platforms. Building and running a container can be done in seconds and is easy to reproduce. But what about updating the running containers on a regular basis?
Ansible
Ansible is a quite simple and powerful automation tool. You can configure servers, switches, firewalls, cloud providers and much more. One essential thing needs to be considered, if you start using Ansible: "How to tell Ansible everything it needs to know about the infrastructure?"
Fedora
Fedora Linux is a modern Linux distribution, which can be used on your workstation, server and everything between. It is not very well known, but you can deploy Fedora Linux on your Raspberry Pi, too. Let's see what you get when opting for Fedora.
Podman
Podman is an awesome tool to build, manage and share container workloads. Sometimes you also need to store a password for your container or manage secret tokens. With Podman 3.1.0 a feature was released that helps to manage container secrets with Podman.
Vagrant
Vagrant provides an easy and powerful way to deploy local machines for development and testing. You can use Ansible or Podman and Docker to provision complete use cases on the machines, too.
Rocky Linux
CentOS shifted it's support and delivery. Nowadays, you can get CentOS Stream with continuous updates, but that's not everybody's cake. With Alma Linux OS, we already had a look at one of the new distributions, that try to fill this gap. In addition, you may have heard of Rocky Linux.
Ansible
Managing servers with Ansible is a common task. But you can also automate the setup of your own workstation. Setting a wallpaper, installing software, managing repositories and more can be done with Ansible.
Docker
Working with containers can be done in several ways. The most popular choice for container workflows and development is Docker.
Vagrant
Vagrant is a powerful tool, that can help to create and manage VMs on different operating systems. Very often you will need to add more software to these VMs or test your new web project. This can be achieved with provisioners. In this article, I will tackle file and shell provisioners.
while-true-do.io
If you are developing web applications, you may be used to web frontend/styling frameworks like Bootstrap or Foundation. What started as a "not made by me" project slowly became a tool I am using for prototyping and styling web applications.
Podman
In the previous articles, we had a look at the basics of Podman networking. In this article, I want to focus on some special behavior and concepts. Let's check out networking in pods and rootless mode.
Ansible
Today, the second "Ansible Anwendertreffen" was held online. The conference is a gathering of professionals working with Ansible, in German language.
Fedora
Fedora provides a wide variety of Linux based distributions. In the "Fedora - Overview" article, I provided a brief introduction of the different tases. This article is focused on the newest "Edition" named Fedora IoT. Let's see what it is about and why you should use it for certain use cases.