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Lead Image © Liubomyr Feshchyn, 123rf.com

Goodbye cloud VMs, hello laptop VMs

Multipass lets you launch and run Ubuntu virtual machines, use cloud-init to configure the VMs, and prototype cloud launches locally in minutes.
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Lead Image © Sebastian Duda, 123RF.com

Rancher manages lean Kubernetes workloads

The Rancher lightweight alternative to Red Hat's OpenShift gives admins a helping hand when entering the world of Kubernetes, but with major differences in architecture.
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Photo by Gabriel Crismariu on Unsplash

Microsoft Exchange replacement

Grommunio is setting itself up as an open source drop-in replacement for Microsoft Exchange.
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Lead Image © Nah Ting Feng, 123RF.com

Lithnet Password Protection for Active Directory

Lithnet Password Protection for Active Directory provides flexible rules beyond that possible with group policies alone and prevents the use of previously compromised passwords.
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Photo by Pascal Bernardon on Unsplash

Chef users faced with a license change might find solace in a new open source distribution, Cinc.

For the past two years, Chef software used commercially has required a separate license. Cinc enters the scene as a free and completely compatible Chef distribution that makes it a genuine alternative.
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Lead Image © zelfit, 123RF.com

Kubernetes for small and medium-sized enterprises

We look at the benefits of Kubernetes outside of large corporate environments.

Setting up a PXE boot server

Set up a PXE server for BIOS and UEFI clients and use it to boot Linux or Windows.
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Lead Image © Sergey Nivens, 123RF.com

Single sign-on like the big guys

Keycloak is a robust and mature project that provides a modern single sign-on authorization experience and centralized authentication of your apps.
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Photo by Cytonn Photography on Unsplash

Tools for automation in the cloud

Automation in the cloud does not require expensive new acquisitions when tools such as Ansible, Salt, Puppet, or Chef are already in use locally and can contribute to the automatic management and orchestration of cloud workloads.
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Photo by Austin Neill on Unsplash

Configuring complex environments

YAML is often the language of choice when configuring complex environments. We help you get started with YAML and the YAML parser yq.
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