Do all software products follow a release cycle? What other approaches are there?
While many software products do follow a release cycle, it is not a hard and fast rule that all must do so. The nature of the software, the development metho...
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Boot systems into different targets manually
Booting a Linux system into a different target (also known as runlevel in older versions of Linux) can be achieved by using the systemd utility. This is a sy...
Basic input-output redirection in Linux
Output redirections send output streams of a process to a file while input redirections send the content of a given file to the input stream of a process. Se...
A primer on file permissions in Linux
Understanding and manipulating file and directory permissions is a crucial aspect of Linux system administration. The letters u, g, o stand for User, Group, ...
What, why, how is eval command in shell?
eval is a built-in command in most Unix-like operating systems, such as Linux. It comes from the sh (Bourne shell) programming language, which was one of the...
What are inodes?
In Linux, an inode, aka index node, is a data structure that stores information about a file or directory. It contains metadata about the file, such as its s...
Why does GitOps not use pipelines?
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30-Day Series - Learn Python
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Do I need a private Docker images Registry?
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30-Day Series - Learn Kafka
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How to automate the configuration of your homelab servers?
A goal I always have in mind is to automate as much as possible what I do. That’s the case for sure on my homelab and I have no problem erring on the overkil...