ENTRIES TAGGED "system administration"
LISA mixes the ancient and modern: report from USENIX system administration conference
System administrators try to maintain reliability and other virtues while adopting cost-cutting innovations
I came to LISA, the classic USENIX conference, to find out this year who was using such advanced techniques as cloud computing, continuous integration, non-relational databases, and IPv6. I found lots of evidence of those technologies in action, but also had the bracing experience of getting stuck in a talk with dozens of Solaris fans.
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Jesse Robbins on the state of infrastructure automation
Shifts for sysadmins and a surprising use for Chef.
OpsCode chief community officer Jesse Robbins discusses cloud infrastructure automation and the most surprising use of Chef he's seen so far.
USENIX's LISA still for system administrators
Topics that concern LISA are fairly stable from year to year. Configuration management, storage options, security, cloud computing (particularly with Xen), IPv6, customer relations, and a bit of NoSQL formed the pillars of the program.
What's New in CFEngine 3: Making System Administration Even More Powerful
CFEngine is a surprisingly flexible and fast tool for distributed configuration management. A new version was released this week.
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