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News for system administrators around the world.

Medicine Cabinet  

WSUS simplifies updating Windows 10 computers over the network, but first, you need to modify some settings and add new Group Policy templates to insure successful installation of the updates.

Interaction  

The OpenStack cosmos cannot ignore the trend toward containers. If you want to combine both technologies, projects like Magnum, Kolla, and Zun come into play. Which one?

Welcome  

For 16 years, I worked for a very large international support company, mostly as a system administrator. For those 16 years, I found that the fine art of negligence was not only prevalent, but an actual and conscious career choice for some of my colleagues.

It's a Snap!  

Canonical's Snapcraft (Snappy) package manager creates a self-contained application that works across Linux distributions. We show you how to install, publish, and run a simple snap.

The Pure Doctrine  

Internet providers often market their open interfaces as RESTful, but is this true of the APIs, especially when no standard exists? We introduce some REST providers and look at how closely their API architectures reflect the REST principle.

Bad Actor  

Three IAM security misconfiguration scenarios are rather common: allowing the creation of a new policy version, the modification of a role trust policy, and the creation of EC2 instances with role passing. We look at ways to avoid and detect IAM security holes.

Footloose  

Keep your test-driven development and testing environments pristine with Footloose containers that look like VMs.