Using Podman 4.0's new features, avoiding YAML errors, and more tips for sysadmins

Check out Enable Sysadmin's top 10 articles from March 2022.

Posted: April 4, 2022 by Vicki Walker (Editorial Team, Red Hat)

March 2022 was another excellent month for Enable Sysadmin. During the month, we published 24 new articles and received more than 836,000 reads from nearly 568,000 readers across the site.

Today, we are looking back at our top 10 articles of March 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 us your article ideas or sysadmin tips to the team at enable-sysadmin@redhat.com.

March's top 10

Train moving fast down a track with containers

How Podman can transfer container images without a registry

The new 'podman image scp' command makes it easier to transfer container images between users on the same system or machines over the network.

Podman 4.0's new network stack: What you need to know

Podman's new Netavark and Aardvark-based stack offers three main advantages over the existing CNI-based stack.

How to run pods as systemd services with Podman

Extending traditional Linux system administration practices with the modern world of containers is a natural evolution.

Avoid errors in your Ansible playbooks with ansible-lint

Ansible-lint goes beyond regular YAML linters by checking Ansible tasks themselves, potentially saving you from execution errors and many hours of debugging.

What the first five lines of Linux’s top command tell you

Wondering how your system is performing and using resources? Check the Linux top command's first five lines.

Check your disk space use with the Linux df command

Learn how to use df and its various options to monitor disk usage on critical mount points.

Check your YAML for errors with yamllint

Check for YAML violations in your code before it gets executed with yamllint.

How to build redundancy into your network (and what to avoid)

Redundancy with automated failover is good. But making the wrong decisions can make a high-availability solution worse than no redundancy at all.

Photo looking across a wooden walking bridge

How to set up a network bridge for virtual machine communication

Use the nmtui console to set up network connectivity for VMs to communicate over an IP network.

Never stop learning in chalk displayed on a laptop

How sysadmins can rethink study habits for training or certification

Starting a new training series? You may find the fast-paced sysadmin life changes how you learn and retain information.

Topics: Podman Linux Networking Ansible

Vicki Walker

Vicki Walker is Managing Editor, Digital Communities, for Red Hat. She has more than 15 years of experience in technology publishing for companies including Red Hat, InformationWeek.com, Dark Reading, SAP, BlackBerry, and Network Computing, for more than 15 years. More about me