The cloud runs largely on Kubernetes, Kubernetes largely runs on Linux, and Linux runs best when it has a skilled sysadmin at the controls. Whether you consider yourself a cloud architect or just a humble sysadmin, the modern internet needs users who understand how applications and services can be created within containers, scaled on demand, and monitored and managed judiciously. One of the first steps into the brave world of containers is learning Kubernetes and its quintessential command: kubectl.

Last year, I had a problem: HTTPD (the Apache web server) would not start on a reboot or cold boot. To fix it, I added an override file, /etc/systemd/system/httpd.service.d/override.conf. It contained the following statements to delay HTTPD's startup until the network is properly started and online. (If you've read my previous articles, you'll know that I use NetworkManager and systemd, not the old SystemV network service and start scripts).

While hybrid cloud computing will be critical in enabling digital transformation, most IT orgs lack the skills and technologies to achieve it.

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The public cloud for years has tempted enterprises with the promise of much-needed agility and scalability that come with an elastic IT environment and of

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With the rise of Big Data, methods used to study the movement of stars or atoms can now reveal the movement of people. This could have important implications for cities.

We are at a cusp of a major shift in industry, the likes of which has not been seen in decades. Yes, this sounds dramatic, but x86 has been dominating the computing industry for decades, and is lik…

If you want to understand containers, microservices architecture, modern application development, and cloud native computing, you need to understand Kubernetes.

We often hear about the Asian American community as one big group of people, but go one level down and you see a lot of variance within the group. Nicole Chavez and Priya Krishnakumar, reporting fo…

On World Password Day, we’re providing a sneak peek at a future in which, one day, you won’t need a password at all.

Brent Svac shares: This is a custom keyboard with lcd screen using a raspberry pi pico and adafruit esp32 airlift. download the files on: Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D …

When Raj Nair founded load balancing company Arrowpoint Communications 20 years ago, load balancing was done based on some simple formulas. He sold Arrowpoint to Cisco in 2000 and went on to found a video delivery company that he sold to Ericsson. Two years ago, he returned to the load balancing challenge, this time as…

The Mars Society is proud to announce that its book, “Mars City States: New Societies for a New World”, has now been published. The book, edited by Frank Crossman, contains the twenty top designs for a one million person Mars City State, is now on sale in both paperback and kindle formats. People will soon be able to go to the Red Planet. But that very possibility opens a still more interesting – indeed truly grand – question: What will we... READ MORE >

Regardless of whether you’re just starting to explore Kubernetes or you already have experience deploying in Kubernetes, you know by now that it is complicated and will require new skills and an adjustment in the way you think about deploying applications. Originally designed by Google and today maintained by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF),…

The future of work at Google: more flexibility for your work week, more choice around where you work, and more flexibility for your life.

There can be no doubt that automation is the future of work. There’s plenty of debate as to what extent AI will displace workers in the near and far future, but the general consensus is that blue collar work is an endangered species. It’s o

Bulgarian artist Ognyan Stefanov pairs his day job as an aviation photographer with an equally lofty practice of crafting lavish architectural miniatures that soar high in the air. One of his creations is this utopic village, aptly named "Skyville," which was designed as a self-sustaining enclave co

autonomous air vehicle company ehang unveils 'baobab', a large tree-like tower and landing platform for its EH216 passenger drones.

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The holes drilled into Arctic, Antarctic, and glacial ice to harvest ice cores can be up to 2 miles deep. One of my all-time favorite sounds is created by dropping ice down into one of these holes -- it makes a super-coo

For the past year, robotic engineer Mark Bryan has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers on Instagram by cataloguing his daily outfits that include skirts and heels. From a profile in Interview: By all accoun