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Event-Driven Ansible early adopters share lessons learned

Beta testers of the new Event-Driven Ansible tool from Red Hat said expanding automation and moving toward self-healing systems requires fresh skills and organizational shifts.

By Beth Pariseau • May 24, 2023

GitOps

GitOps is an operational framework that applies DevOps practices, such as continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) and version control, to infrastructure automation.

By Alexander Gillis • May 24, 2023

Ansible Lightspeed leads Red Hat generative AI agenda

Red Hat leans on IBM's expertise in training Watson Code Assistant to write Ansible playbooks, as worries linger about AI-generated code risks and rivals hold a strong lead.

By Beth Pariseau • May 23, 2023

Generative AI use cases for DevOps and IT

Generative AI is often associated with creative projects, but it has promising use cases in DevOps and IT workflows -- if organizations account for its risks and limitations.

By Stephen Bigelow • May 22, 2023

Learn how to use the PowerShell Trim method

With the Trim method in your PowerShell toolbox, you can write scripts to remove unwanted characters from strings without using regular expressions. Get started with this tutorial.

By Anthony Howell • May 18, 2023

Improve automation skills with the AD Administrative Center

You might know that you can use PowerShell to handle repetitive Active Directory tasks. But were you aware the Active Directory Administrative Center can help write the code?

By Damon Garn • May 17, 2023

commodity hardware

Commodity hardware in computing is computers or components that are readily available, inexpensive and easily interchangeable with other commodity hardware. Almost all PCs use commodity hardware.

By Gavin Wright, Ivy Wigmore • May 17, 2023

SBOMs and security: What IT and DevOps need to know

By integrating software bill of materials creation into the software development lifecycle, IT and DevOps teams can build more secure and maintainable applications.

By Nihad Hassan • May 16, 2023

Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA)

Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA) is a service used to watch and report on application and system health on a Windows computer.

By Stephen Bigelow • May 15, 2023

5 best practices for building a strong DevOps culture

Under the CALMS framework, establishing an open, collaborative culture from the outset is just as important as tools and technologies when starting out on your DevOps journey.

By Emily Foster • May 12, 2023

disaggregated server

A disaggregated server is a server whose components and resources are divided into subsystems.

By TechTarget Contributor • May 12, 2023

Active Directory functional levels

Active Directory functional levels are controls that specify which advanced Active Directory domain features can be used in an enterprise domain.

By Stephen Bigelow • May 11, 2023

Follow these steps to decommission Exchange Server

An Exchange Server migration includes a lot of moving parts but it's important to cover the training aspect to make sure your users aren't left behind.

By Helen Searle-Jones • May 11, 2023

Cloud repatriation vs. multi-cloud: IT seeks cost relief

Amid fiscal worries, IT orgs reassess cloud investments. Whether they go back on-premises or expand to multi-cloud, they face similar distributed computing management challenges.

By Beth Pariseau • May 10, 2023

Can you use Kubernetes without Docker?

Although Docker and Kubernetes are often used together, the two serve different roles in IT environments -- and Docker containers aren't the only option for Kubernetes deployments.

By Stephen Bigelow • May 10, 2023

Light May Patch Tuesday will weigh heavily on Windows admins

A zero-day that targets the Secure Boot feature will require extensive work from sysadmins to protect Windows systems from the Black Lotus bootkit.

By Tom Walat • May 10, 2023

phased rollout

Phased rollout is a hardware or software migration method that involves incrementally implementing a new system.

By TechTarget Contributor • May 8, 2023

Improve Kubernetes network performance with Cilium and eBPF

Learn how the Cilium Kubernetes plugin and eBPF framework can improve network efficiency and security, then walk through installing Cilium on a K3s cluster with sample code.

By Chris Tozzi • May 8, 2023

TCPView

TCPView is a Windows network monitoring utility that shows a graphical representation of all currently active TCP and UDP endpoints on a system.

By Ben Rubenstein • May 8, 2023

Microsoft Azure Stack

Microsoft Azure Stack is an integrated platform of hardware and software that delivers Microsoft Azure public cloud services in a local data center to enable organizations to construct hybrid clouds.

By Stephen Bigelow • May 5, 2023

FDISK

FDISK is a disk utility included in all versions of MS-DOS, Windows and Linux for formatting or partitioning a hard disk drive, or to delete different portions of it.

By Rahul Awati • May 4, 2023

Unify business and IT with DevOps value stream management

Value stream management can be a powerful tool to align DevOps with the business by optimizing data analysis and improving collaboration and reporting.

By Will Kelly • May 3, 2023

Observability maven ‘cranky’ about AIOps embraces GPT

Honeycomb's observability tools will add natural language queries via OpenAI's GPT API, a departure from its co-founder and CTO's broader stance on AI in IT ops tools.

By Beth Pariseau • May 3, 2023

Citing data privacy, GitLab syncs with Google generative AI

GitLab's deal with Google lets it keep sensitive customer data in the GitLab cloud while training models, amid enterprise concerns about generative AI licensing and security risks.

By Beth Pariseau • May 2, 2023

How advances in GPT-4 could revolutionize app development

Although public attention has recently centered on ChatGPT, the underlying GPT-3 and GPT-4 models could be even more transformative, particularly for application developers.

By Paul Nashawaty • May 1, 2023