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Weekly Update 6-17-2019: All About Ansible

Linux Academy

Ansible uses YAML to describe your automation jobs, which is easy to learn in comparison to other languages because it looks very similar to plain English. But y ou can do all of that and more in our free Ansible Quick Start course on Linux Academy , right now. LPI Linux Essentials 1.6. Google Labs. New Releases.

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Technology Short Take 135

Scott Lowe

Mete Atamel has a great walkthrough of using Workflows on Google Cloud to connect various API-driven services together. Here’s a post on using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to run Linux containers on Windows. Ben Kehoe provides readers with a hygienic Python setup for Linux, macOS, and WSL. Programming.

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Acer Chromebook Spin 513 review: a chip off a new block

The Verge

I’ve been using the Spin as my primary work driver for a week, and I was able to get done most of the things I needed to — Google Docs for work, emailing, tweeting, etc. There were occasions where my Google Doc would freeze, and I’d have to wait a couple seconds to resume working. But I got impatient at times. I just want to Zoom, man.

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Technology Short Take 92

Scott Lowe

Christian Kellner talks about work done on Thunderbolt 3 security levels for GNU/Linux. Also, here’s Google Project Zero’s write-up (along with a support FAQ from Google on mitigation). Jorge Salamero Sanz (on behalf of Sysdig) provides a similar comparison, this time looking at ECS, Fargate, and EKS.

Linux 60
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Technology Short Take 138

Scott Lowe

The Google Project Zero blog takes a look at iMessage in iOS 14. Here’s Chip Zoller’s comparison of Gatekeper and Kyverno. Via TecMint, James Kiarie explains how to use VirtualBox VMs on KVM in Linux. Want/need to better understand IPv6? Denise Fishburne has you covered. There’s a lot here! Virtualization.

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Technology Short Take #69

Scott Lowe

First up, there’s a great article on using IPVLAN with Docker and Cumulus Linux (with a tie back to sFlow, naturally!). Here’s a walkthrough by Cody Bunch on setting up BGP on Linux with Cumulus Quagga. Kevin Houston has an updated blade server comparison chart that might be helpful in making hardware decisions.

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Interop Liveblog: The Post-Cloud

Scott Lowe

He draws some comparisons between the use of full-machine virtualization (aka VMs) with the use of Linux containers—not that one is better or worse than the other, but that they are different and therefore have different characteristics and different use cases. Now we’re talking about Google. integrate machine learning).

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