Time management for system administrators
As a DevOps, operations or System managers, we have to cope with many interruptions such as production issues, security issues, patching, deployments and so on.
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Managing DevOps using Agile Methodologies
Sources about managing DevOps and operations teams: Scrum for Operations: Just Add DevOps Link: http://theagileadmin.com/2014/09/30/scrum-for-operations-just-add-devops/ List of additional excellent articles about agile and DevOps here: http://theagileadmin.com/tag/scrum4ops/ A good article about how to manage a DevOps team using JIRA, taking into account planned project work and unplanned work such as production issues. Each SaaS service is a project in JIRA High… Read more »
Command line to list the groups in Windows
List the groups the current user belongs to: whoami /group List the users in a specific group in a Windows domain:
Open source API management and rate limiting solutions
API management solution provides a front end between the API users and the service. It allows the service provide to control who access the service, protect the availability of the service by setting usage limits such as request rate limiting per user and lastly most of the solutions provide usage statistics.
Multi platform open source backup solutions
This post compares the various open source backup solutions that support Linux, MacOS X and Windows clients. Feel free to comment and let me know if there is a solution that I missed and should add to the list.
How to make Windows VM guest recognize and run on more than 2 cores under KVM
Windows guests do not recognize all of the available cores under KVM and will usually detect only 2 cores. This happens since KVM exposes the available virtual CPU cores as physical CPUs (sockets). So, if the physical host running KVM has 2 CPUs with 4 cores each (a total of 8 cores), and the guest is configured for 8 CPUs,… Read more »