Focus on DevOps

DevOps is changing the way Linux admins think about managing networks and building software. Want to learn about DevOps tools and techniques?

Check out these highlights from our ADMIN DevOps Focus page.

DevOps Featured Articles

Container Apps in DevOps
Canonical’s Snapcraft (Snappy) package manager creates self-contained applications that work across Linux distributions. We show you how to install, publish, and run a simple snap.

Automation with Ansible
Ansible offers automatic provisioning and configuration capabilities similar to that of Chef and Puppet, but it's aimed more at admins than developers.

Setting up Windows Clients with Chef
Chef administrators unafraid of a learning curve can employ a powerful tool for Windows client management. Teamed with PowerShell, it offers more than some system management suites.

CI Security Testing with ZAP
Despite the abundance of tools that test code and help improve the effectiveness of a continuous integration pipeline, automated security testing is much more difficult to get right than it might appear.

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