Abraham Lincoln once said, "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." The transition to IPv6 is a big step for many organizations. Careful planning and a systematic approach are critical to a successful migration.
When operating multiple containers in an environment, you need to use special Linux distributions as a base, such as CoreOS or Red Hat Atomic. We show you how to add applications to and create a custom Atomic software repository for the base system.
Thanks to the efforts of the Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative, you can install Drupal in at least 100 languages and exercise granular control over the languages on your website.
DevOps and container technology often appear together. If you have one of them, you get the other automatically. However, as the following plea for reason shows, it isn't always that simple.
The Ceph object store remains a project in transition: The developers announced a new GUI, a new storage back end, and CephFS stability in the just released Ceph c10.2.x, Jewel.
A free TLS certificate from Let's Encrypt means you can add encryption to your network for no cost, so you don't have any more excuses for failing to encrypt.
Google Authenticator provides one-time passwords to smartphone owners for multifactor authentication, or you can integrate it into other applications, such as blogs.
Microsoft provides some interesting virtualization features in current and future versions of Windows Server. You can connect or isolate virtual machines, and Windows Server 2016 even supports virtual switches.
Version 219 of the controversial systemd init system introduces a number of comprehensive changes. We take a closer look at the innovations in network management and container handling.
Linux filesystems range from block-based network filesystems, to temporary filesystems in RAM, to pseudo filesystems. We explain how filesystems are set up and how to manage them.
HTTPS protects a connection from both tapping and manipulation, but only if a man in the middle hasn't already infiltrated the Internet connection. We highlight the weaknesses in HTTPS and demonstrate how to protect your client and server.
