Ansible is the fastest-growing configuration management tool these days. This has also created a steadily growing community. Due to the simple architecture and the resulting easy extensibility, more and more companies and private persons provide their roles, modules and playbooks for their products and projects.
Especially in the current time we experience how important the exchange between scientists is. Almost every day there are new findings that need to be discussed and debated. This applies to the situation in the current pandemic as well as to (biotechnological) research in general.
The management of Kubernetes should be easy, simple and clear. Well-known DevOps practices and ultimately automation should be accessible by the management technique. The first GitOps principle, the declarative approach, is the essential Kubernetes management technique to leverage the desired feature set.
The day after OSAD, it was time again for the development team to organize the HackDay on Foreman/Katello open-source projects at the ATIX headquarters.
One of the advantages of the Configuration Management Tool Ansible is the easy-to-read-and-write code in YAML. This includes the possibility to test the code in an easy way.
Welcome to Docker Swarm! Containers thrive like pack animals in large numbers, but their distribution on the servers is crucial. Docker Swarm, which has been integrated into the Docker Engine since version 1.12, is ideal for this. Learn more about manager and worker nodes, service variants, load balancing and scalability. This is part 3 of our Docker/Rancher series, in which we look at the distributed environment of Docker Swarm.
