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Troubleshooting Linux performance, building a golden image for your RHEL homelab, and more tips for sysadmins
Check out Enable Sysadmin's top 10 articles from March 2023.
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In March 2023, Enable Sysadmin published 24 new articles, achieved more than 1.2 million reads, and engaged with more than 727,000 readers. We're grateful to the Enable Sysadmin community for supporting this work as readers, as writers, and as future writers. (If you'd like to write for Enable Sysadmin, see our About page for information about submissions.)
As we do at the start of each month, we are looking back at our top 10 articles of March 2023 to give you a chance to catch up on any of the great content you might have missed. In this list, you will see various topics covered, and we are confident that some, if not all, will be of interest to you.
If these articles leave you feeling inspired, then we would love to hear from you. Send your article ideas or sysadmin tips to the team at enable-sysadmin@redhat.com.
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In this article and video, you'll learn how to collect information about your Linux system's performance.
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Create customized templates for your Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)-based homelab that you can deploy repeatedly with automated upkeep.
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Build an OpenShift cluster on a small, sub-$300 computer.
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Go beyond the basics, learn what happens under the hood when running Podman on your Mac, and create a flexible container environment that meets your needs.
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Podman and Ansible are even better together for enabling automation and orchestration of container and pod lifecycles.
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Use Ansible Vault to share encrypted Bash environment variables across projects.
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Learn about the unit files Quadlet supports and how to use them to deploy containers using Podman and systemd.
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Handle errors gracefully in your automation by using Ansible block and rescue keywords.
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libvirt's default Linux bridge imposes limitations with some advanced network features. Try using OVS to implement libvirt networks instead.
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Persisting Ansible fact data improves execution time, particularly when running different playbooks in sequence or targeting many hosts.
Topics:
Linux
Troubleshooting
Vicki Walker
Vicki Walker is Managing Editor of Enable Sysadmin and Enable Architect for Red Hat. She has more than 20 years of experience in technology publishing for companies including InformationWeek.com, Dark Reading, SAP, BlackBerry, and Network Computing. More about me
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