Assuming you are running Linux, you probably have a favorite or most-familiar Linux distribution; I suspect your first one. In my case, this would be the Debian distro and it's derivatives, such as Ubuntu or the Ubuntu derivatives such as Linux Mint or Pop!_OS. In an ideal world, you …
more ...Puppet has come a long way since it's initial release in 2005, however, it has usually followed client-server architecture, together with its nemesis Chef (which later on released chef-solo for running masterless). A lot of the more recent configuration management tools such as Ansible and Salt dropped this client-server architecture …
more ...Triggered by multiple independent events, including (but not limited to) an opinionated blogpost describing The Evolution of Distributed Systems Management that got quite some readers from Hacker News, the Devops Weekly newsletter and probably created a bit of a stir in the Configuration Management community and things that I noticed …
more ...My colleague Pim recently did a great write-up on how to do a safe in-place upgrade to a slim Debian stretch running i3 using debootstrap (a tool which will install a Debian base system into a subdirectory of another, already …
more ...The writing of this blogpost has been on my personal TODO list for a while, but here it finally is. I spent some of my spare time in 2016 tinkering with different Linux distributions, not just because I still strongly believe that 2017 is The Year of the Linux Desktop …
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