Tag: devops
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Performance Analysis
ReadOverview In 2015, Brendan Gregg posted two great articles on Netflix blog: Linux Performance Analysis in 60 seconds, and Linux Perfomrance Tools. They have great…
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Ansible at scale 2 of 2
ReadTemplate (with Jinja2) and files In an Ansible role, we can use files or templates to achieve similar results for configuration files. If the configuration…
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Ansible at scale 1 of 2
ReadThe Ansible In Depth white paper outlines Ansible’s use cases in four categories: Configuration management Application deployment Orchestration: for coordinating a multi-machine process such as…
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Common local Git operations
ReadThis is a summary of concepts in common Git operations. We will discuss brach, merge, rebase, cherrypick, stash and reset. Then we’ll discuss pull, fetch,…
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NTLM and Kerberos protocols
ReadThis article explains how two most common authentication mechanisms (NTLM and Kerberos) work. Both authentication protocols are based on symmetric key cryptography. The protocols themselves…
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Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
ReadSAML is an XML-based standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between IdP (identity provider) and service provider. We can compare SAML with LDAP (as…