Improve Linux performance, trigger Ansible with Git push, and more tips for sysadmins

Check out Enable Sysadmin’s 10 most-read articles from July 2021.

Posted: August 4, 2021 by Tyler Carrigan (Editorial Team, Red Hat)

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July 2021 was a record-breaking month for Enable Sysadmin. We published 25 articles and received over 660,000 page views from over 450,000 unique visitors. Today, we are looking back at our top 10 articles to give readers a chance to catch up on any of the great content they 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.

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If these articles leave you feeling inspired, or if you would like to be on next month's list, we would love to hear from you. Send in your ideas to the team at enable-sysadmin@redhat.com.

5 Linux commands I'm going to start using

Five standard Linux commands that can make your life much easier.

3 tips for Linux process performance improvement with priority and affinity

A quick look at how to pull more performance out of your system.

Automating code pushes with Ansible Tower

6 steps to automating code pushes with Ansible Automation Platform

Use a Git push to trigger an Ansible Automation Platform playbook execution in six easy steps.

5 essential soft skills for sysadmin self-improvement

Your technical skills might be superb, but do you have equally compelling soft skills?

The effects of adding users to a Linux system

What's the average age of a Linux sysadmin?

This poll attempts to answer a question posed by one of our community members

7 more things I wish I'd known before becoming a sysadmin

Seven (more) things I wish I'd known before becoming a sysadmin

These seven things are given to you on a need-to-know basis, and you need to know.

13 essential skills sysadmins need to make a career move into management

Want to make a move from system administration into management? Acquire these 13 skills.

Differences between containers and images

What is the difference between a Linux container and an image?

Context is the key to understanding how container engines understand the terms container and image.

Using Ansible to create users from a CSV file

4 steps to create Linux users from a csv file with Ansible

Automate Linux user account creation in four simple steps with Ansible.

Five things I wish I'd known before becoming a sysadmin

The 5 things I wish I'd known before becoming a sysadmin

Being an IT professional, you know that information is important. Here are five bits of information I wish I'd known before signing on the dotted line as a sysadmin.

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Tyler Carrigan

Tyler is the Sr. Community Manager at Enable Sysadmin, a submarine veteran, and an all-round tech enthusiast! He was first introduced to Red Hat in 2012 by way of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based combat system inside the USS Georgia Missile Control Center. More about me