Our top 10 articles from the past month covered Ansible, working with containers, and all sorts of Linux goodness. Which was your favorite?
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Best practices for adapting Phoronix Test Suite to benchmark Linux performance
Detecting small changes in performance can be somewhat difficult, due to the inconsistency of data produced. This blog describes changes to three Phoronix Test Suite workloads that help to improve the consistency of data produced by reducing run to run variability.
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Best practices for adapting Phoronix Test Suite to benchmark Linux performance
In this blog post, Oracle Linux performance engineers Richard Smith and Jesse Gordon describes modifications made to three Phoronix Test Suite workloads that reduce run to run variability, thereby allowing the results to be more consistent so smaller changes in performance may be detected.BackgroundThePhoronix Test Suite (PTS)is a comprehensive testing and benchmarking platform, which is widely used to help assess the performance of Linux…
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How to use Red Hat Insights to maintain your Linux systems
Red Hat Insights provides you with information on updates, vulnerabilities, configuration problems, and more.
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Move your Linux from legacy BIOS to UEFI in place with minimal downtime
This article describes a complete procedure for moving to UEFI.
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Basic concepts of encryption in cryptography
Part one in a series on encryption concepts.
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Got automation? Here’s a quick guide to get you up to speed on Ansible
This article gives you a quick, high-level guide on how to start with Ansible
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DevSecOps: Image scanning in your pipelines using quay.io scanner
In this first of two articles, learn to add image scanning to pipelines using quay.io built-in capabilities.
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Distributed Identity Foundation (DIF) January 2021 Highlights
DIF held its semiannual “Face-to-Face” community’ event last week, and man what an event it was! For obvious reasons, it was virtual for the second time, and for the first time, it spanned both Zoom and the interactive social platform gather.town, giving a more intimate atmosphere and allowing for more organic networking than often happens at “tele-conferences.”
If you missed it in part or in full, click here to find summaries and recordings of the main events.
Enumerating a new network with Nmap
Here are some basic Nmap flags that you can use to generate a quick and useful network map for effective troubleshooting and managing network traffic.
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