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Testing ChatGPT Ansible playbooks, building RHEL homelabs, and more tips for sysadmins
Check out Enable Sysadmin's top 10 articles from February 2023.
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While February is a short month on the calendar, that didn't slow Enable Sysadmin down at all. During the month, we published 21 new articles, achieved more than 1.17 million reads, and engaged with more than 783,000 readers. We're grateful to the Enable Sysadmin community for supporting this work as readers, as writers, and as future writers. (If you'd like to write for Enable Sysadmin, see our About page for information about submissions.)
As we do at the start of each month, we are looking back at our top 10 articles of February 2023 to give you a chance to catch up on any of the great content you might have missed. In this list, you will see various topics covered, and we are confident that some, if not all, will be of interest to you.
If these articles leave you feeling inspired, then we would love to hear from you. Send your article ideas or sysadmin tips to the team at enable-sysadmin@redhat.com.
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ChatGPT can write code, but is it good code?
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Examine your data in a user-friendly dashboard that shows multiple views of the same data.
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Learn how to create a homelab to spin up VMs and more using RHEL.
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Use Podman and systemd integration to automatically start a containerized service with the operating system so that it persists across reboots.
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Learn how to set up GitLab CI and GitLab Runner (with a Podman executor) to create the foundations to deploy a Configuration-as-Code pipeline in the first article in this series.
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Use Ansible to create backups of your local machine on a USB drive or the cloud.
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Learn how Red Hat IT designed its strategy to migrate from Ansible Tower to Ansible Automation Platform 2.
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Quadlet, a tool merged into Podman 4.4, hides the complexity of running containers under systemd to make it easier to maintain unit files written from scratch.
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kubeconfig is the default way to authenticate to a Kubernetes cluster. It can be a little cryptic, but it is easy to understand if you look closely.
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Conftest evaluates Open Policy Agent (OPA) policies against structured configuration files. Learn how to apply it to your Ansible Playbooks.
Topics:
Ansible
Containers
Vicki Walker
Vicki Walker is Managing Editor of Enable Sysadmin and Enable Architect for Red Hat. She has more than 20 years of experience in technology publishing for companies including InformationWeek.com, Dark Reading, SAP, BlackBerry, and Network Computing. More about me
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