Recently I heard a lecture on best admin practices and they said to set servers to auto update and auto reboot. The few servers I have have webserver, database and an app and reboot for kernel upgrade ...

Anisble lets you automate your IT tasks directly. If you are looking to install Ansible on your Windows computer, you require a specific approach as it doesn’t run natively. This guide walks you ...

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 ...

Playbooks make Ansible even more powerful than before. To be quite honest, if Ansible had nothing but its ad-hoc mode, it still would be a powerful and useful tool for automating large numbers of ...

The cloud-based version of the configuration manager, playbook.cloud, requires no setup, no standing up of server nodes, and is billed by the minute. It will later be integrated into Refactr’s CSAP ...