Wouldn’t you love to be able to simply wave a wand and layers of resources in your AWS account would suddenly – and magically – spring to perfectly configured life, ready to meet your complex infrastructure needs? If you already… Continue Reading
In the beginning there was the FreeBSD – and later Linux – chroot jail. Chroot was a way to bring an unmounted file system to life so you could execute commands as though it was actually running on its own… Continue Reading
I’m sure you’ve heard that all the cool kids are playing with orchestration automation these days. But do you know why? Well first, the resources consumed by modern microservices workloads are becoming much more complex and deploy to far more… Continue Reading
In the good old days, installing an operating system meant pulling together all the hardware components, firing your new computer up with an installation disk in a peripheral drive, and setting the installation process loose do its thing. The total… Continue Reading
I’m not keeping very close track, but it feels like months since Amazon Web Services (AWS) most recently turned a major tech industry upside down. But with all their resources and market power, I’m sure there’s always something interesting cooking… Continue Reading
This article is adapted from my new Pluralsight course: Automating AWS Operations with the AWS CLI. I’ll bet you’ve already got some stuff running on AWS and you made it happen using the browser console. But I’ll also bet that you… Continue Reading
This article, which also appeared among my Medium articles, was adapted from part of my new Pluralsight course, “Connecting On-prem Resources to your AWS Infrastructure.” Do you sometimes need to connect to resources you’ve got running on Amazon Web Services?… Continue Reading
This article is based on my Linux Performance Monitoring and Tuning course on Pluralsight which, by coincidence, was released just before news of Spectre and Meltdown broke. By now the critical stage of the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities is largely over. Patches for affected… Continue Reading
Container virtualization — most visibly represented by Docker — is aserver paradigm that will likely drive enterprise computing for yearsto come. The Cloud is the most obvious and logical platform for containerdeployment. Amazon Web Services largely dominates the cloud computing world.Add it up. If… Continue Reading
This article, which also appears among my Medium articles, is based on a chapter from my free online book, Solving for Technology: how to quickly learn valuable new skills in a madly changing technology world. There’s lots more where that… Continue Reading