What's New in CFEngine 3: Making System Administration Even More Powerful
CFEngine is both the oldest and the newest of the popular tools for automating site administration. Mark Burgess invented it as a free software project in 1993, and years later, as deployments in the...
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LISA is a systems administrators conference–although this year it tried to evolve into a DevOps conference, with modest success–so the topics that concern it are fairly stable from year to year....
View ArticleJesse Robbins on the state of infrastructure automation
Jesse Robbins (@jesserobbins) is the co-founder of the Velocity Conference and co-founder and chief community officer of OpsCode, the company behind the popular infrastructure automation tool Chef....
View ArticleLISA mixes the ancient and modern: report from USENIX system administration...
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...
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