If there were an award for “most improved IT orchestration and configuration management tool,” Red Hat’s Ansible would be a top contender. Since its initial development by Michael DeHaan in 2012, it ...

Since I work on server experiments fairly often, I tend to create new virtual machines, many of which end up getting destroyed when I’m done tinkering with them. Although Proxmox’s built-in VM ...

Ansible automates smart home setup, creating repeatable tasks for various devices and platforms within a Playbook. Ansible, ...

If you need to deploy hundreds of server or client nodes in parallel, maybe on-premises or in the cloud, and you need to configure each and every single one of them, what do you do? How do you do it?

Many IT teams are moving towards software development standards that improve communication between developers and software users – DevOps tools are usually needed to make these changes. In this ...

Containers are technology that isolates application components and their dependencies while simultaneously providing virtualization and scalability. Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open-source ...

As the cloud continues to gain steam, automation fits into the picture for seamless application modernization and reduction of redundant functions. To consolidate disparate tooling and increase the ...

Roles are the most complicated and yet simplest aspect of Ansible to learn. I've mentioned before that Ansible's ad-hoc mode often is overlooked as just a way to learn how to use Ansible. I couldn't ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

When it comes to software and services, Microsoft has always tried to offer it all, or at least as much of it as possible. That always makes it interesting when the company acknowledges the use of a ...