Articles from ADMIN Issue 70
Anomalies in an environment's metrics data are an important indicator of an attack. The Prometheus time series database automatically detects, alerts, and forecasts anomalous behavior with the Fourier and Prophet models of the Prometheus Anomaly Detector.
Puppet Bolt free software automates administrative tasks to speed up the admin's daily work.
Microsoft Azure Automation provides a cloud-based service for handling automation tasks, managing updates for operating systems, and configuring Azure and non-Azure environments. We focus on VM update management and restarting VMs.
The various components of cloud-native applications are always exchanging information, which makes troubleshooting difficult. The Jaeger tracing framework helps hunt down the perpetrators.
Teleport centrally manages logins against various protocols, including SSH, Kubernetes, and databases. Functions such as two-factor authentication are included in the scope of delivery, as is management of your own certificates.
Trust is good, but controls are better. As more flexible working models become widespread, the boundaries of the classic perimeter are blurring and softening existing models of trust for adopting cloud software and data storage or running domain controllers or core applications in the cloud.
Active Directory domains distributed across multiple physical locations with IP subnetting and network configuration allows for replication and universal user logins.
Apple ported the Shortcuts automation tool known from the iPhone and iPad to macOS Monterey 12 to help users make their everyday work more convenient, with or without programming knowledge.
Many HPC systems check the state of a node before running an application, but not very many check that the performance of the node is acceptable before running the job.
The open source Weka tool applies a wide variety of analysis methods to data without the need for advanced programming skills and without having to change environments.
