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If you’re a systems administrator, there’s a good chance you’ve heard of Ansible. But if you’re not familiar with the tool or just getting started with it, there are some key terms and concepts you need to know. Here we will give you an overview of Ansible, from its origins to the latest features. We’ll also cover some of the key terminology associated with Ansible so you can start using it effectively immediately.

Terraform and Pulumi are both Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools. They allow you to manage, provision, and configure your infrastructure using code, which makes it easy to automate your infrastructure deployments and manage them in a version control system. Terraform is an open source tool developed by Hashicorp. It’s popular among developers because it’s easy to use and has a wide range of community-developed plugins and integrations.

Do you have repetitive tasks you’d like to automate or manage, but not the time or know-how to code a solution from scratch? Powershell might be just what you’re looking for. Designed to help automate activities, it is a cross-platform shell and scripting language developed by Microsoft. With Powershell, you can use the command line or scripting language to have point-and-click activities executed and managed. It’s fairly easy to use and yet extremely powerful. So, where do you begin?

Load balancers are critical components in AWS systems, and selecting the most suitable option might prove confusing for some users. Choosing the right option enables users to distribute various tasks across resources, resulting in an optimized process. Operating a network without load balancers may result in significant delays in web services during a spike in user requests.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) Kinesis is a cloud-based service that can fully manage large distributed data streams in real-time. This serverless data service captures, processes, and stores large amounts of data. It is a functional and secure global cloud platform with millions of customers from nearly every industry. Companies from Comcast to the Hearst Corporation are using AWS Kinesis.

OpenTelemetry (OTEL) is a big data platform that enables the collection and analysis of large-scale telemetry data. Many companies have adopted it for use in their products. In this post, we’ll discuss semantic conventions in OpenTelemetry and how they are used to make data processing easier. We’ll also discuss the different types of semantic conventions and their importance.

The growth of technology has led to more efficient and relevant digital experiences, and customers continue to expect more out of those interactions. That’s true no matter their location and no matter which device they choose to use. Companies that cannot provide these kinds of personalized interactions for their customers find themselves falling behind the competition as technology continues to advance.

The digital database has come a long way since its infancy in the 1960s. Modern databases do much more heavy lifting than their simpler predecessors and have become sophisticated storehouses for both unstructured and structured data. Businesses still rely heavily on databases, and with advances in database monitoring technology, teams can protect their data like never before.

Helm is a deployment tool that simplifies installing, configuring, and managing Kubernetes clusters. Anyone familiar with writing Kubernetes manifests knows how tedious it is to create multiple manifest files using YAML. Even the most basic application has at least 3 manifest files. As the cluster grows, the more unwieldy the configuration becomes. Helm is one of the most useful tools in a developer’s tool belt for managing Kubernetes clusters.

Modern businesses require increasingly complicated tech stacks to keep their teams up and running. What’s more, as businesses try to stay on top of the latest advancements, they wind up with interconnected layers of apps, hardware, and systems that become more and more interdependent on one another. Often, mission-critical technology ends up dependent on various connections, services, and infrastructure components.