Finally, an automation framework that thinks like a sysadmin. Ansible, you're hired. In my last article, I described how to configure your server and clients so you could connect to each client from ...

When Linux's sysadmin graybeards got their start, they all used the shell to manage systems. Years later, they also used system administration programs such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)'s Red ...

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 ...

Infrastructure is configured declaratively ('infrastructure as code'), which, especially in combination with the management of configuration files in git repositories, enables very reliable deployment ...

If you talk about software automation with developers and devops, there’s a good chance that Chef and Puppet will come up in conversation. In the last 18 months or so another name has joined them: ...