[ADMIN Magazine Preview] Issue 42: Securing Switch Ports

ADMIN Preview Issue 42: Securing Switch Ports

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In this issue:

Welcome: Where Is Your Big Data?

You'd think that massive amounts of data wouldn't have the opportunity to be elusive, but we know this isn't true from the sheer number of data breaches in the past couple of years. (more)

On the DVD: Knoppix 8.1 (Multiarch Live) and Ubuntu 17.10 Server (64-bit)

Knoppix 8.1 (Multiarch Live) and Ubuntu 17.10 Server (64-bit) (more)

DevOps with DebOps: DebOps delivers easy Ansible automation for Debian-based systems

Ansible is a simple and sensible automation solution, as long as you don’t need to spend a lot of time creating new roles and playbooks. DebOps is a convenient collection of Ansible playbooks for Debian-based Linux systems. (more)

Every Ready: Common DevOps Mistakes

From industry metaphors, to agile processes, to DevOps, software development is evolving into a mature enterprise. We point out some missteps in the adoption of the DevOps methodology. (more)

Cloud Orchestration with Chef: Make Your IT Automation Systems Play Together Like a Symphony

Discover the difference between automation and orchestration, and learn to quickly deploy and orchestrate well-defined, scalable business solutions for your organization. (more)

Tech News: News for Admins

Attacks on AI Bluetooth and Intel processors, vulnerability in Oracle Identity Manager, and containerizing OpenStack. (more)

Freeing the GPU: Radeon Open Compute Ecosystem

Exploring AMD's ambitious Radeon Open Compute Ecosystem with ROCm senior director Greg Stoner. (more)

SUSE, A Company on the Move: An interview with SUSE CEO Nils Brauckmann

This month we talk with SUSE CEO Nils Brauckmann. (more)

Safe Switch: Understanding Layer 2 switch port security

What happens when an intruder with a laptop parks at an empty cubicle and attaches to your local network? If you don't want to find out, it might be time to think about implementing some switch port security. (more)

High Resolution: Policy-based DNS in Windows Server 2016

Inflexible DNS name resolution was solved in Windows Server 2016, thanks to policy-based DNS. (more)

Appetizers: Better compression of web pages

Google develops a software tool that is a genuine alternative to Gzip, with improved website compression rates that save bandwidth for server operators. (more)

Pre-Assembled: DebOps delivers easy Ansible automation for Debian-based systems

Ansible is a simple and sensible automation solution, except for the time needed to create new roles and playbooks. The DebOps collection of Ansible playbooks for Debian-based Linux systems solves this problem. (more)

Permanently Secured: Red Hat PaaS hyperconverged storage

More and more companies are outsourcing their applications to containers. We look at storage management and how storage of persistent data can be leveraged within containers. (more)

Speaking in Tongues: Haskell framework for the web

The Yesod web framework includes a Haskell compiler on top of the standard web technologies, such as HTML, JavaScript, and CSS, with aggressive optimization and function checks for correctness. (more)

The Fabricator: Project management with Phabricator

Bug trackers are the least thing that can be deployed to combat chaos in daily IT work. The free Phabricator software provides this service and many others. (more)

Den of Snakes: Multiprocessing in Python with Fortran and OpenMP

Creating Python modules with Fortran OpenMP code makes all available cores accessible to Python functions. (more)

Cloudless: Proxmox virtualization manager

Proxmox has been working for years on their virtualization manager that does not require a cloud. We look at the improved reliability and new features in version 5.0. (more)

Strictly Managed: Automated compliance testing with InSpec

Don't equate compliance through certification with security, because compliance and security are not the same. We look at automated compliance testing with InSpec for the secure operation of enterprise IT. (more)

Line Items: Command-line tools for the HPC administrator

Several sophisticated command-line tools can help you manage and troubleshoot HPC (or other) systems. (more)

Ready for Takeoff: Optimizing Windows 10 for SSDs

Not all PC settings – traditionally optimized for magnetic hard disks – are suitable for solid state drives. We show you how to configure Windows 10 for optimal operation with SSDs. (more)

Undercover: Hands-on test of Windows Subsystem for Linux

If you don't want to do without the main advantages of Linux on the Windows platform, the Windows Subsystem for Linux offers another option. We delve the depths of the Linux underworld and explain how you can optimize the subsystem. (more)

Small Steps: Windows Server 2016 for small servers

Small businesses often do not need the full-blown version of Windows Server 2016. If the application scenarios are manageable, the cheaper Essentials version is the ideal solution; however, it does come with a number of restrictions. (more)

Patterns: Regular expressions and metacharacters in PowerShell

Almost all programming and scripting languages allow the use of regular expressions, but many professionals still believe regex is a relic from ancient times. With specific examples, we show how useful and meaningful regex can be in PowerShell. (more)