Posts tagged with "Automation"

Learn to create tiny JavaScript scripts as browser bookmarks to automate repetitive tasks, from clicking buttons to searching lists, and simplify your non-coder work life.

PowerShell has revolutionized automation for system administrators—learn the fundamentals of PowerShell security and best practices to safeguard your scripting environment.

Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows allowing you to quickly and easily install and manage software—but it's built on PowerShell, so it's WAY more than just software.

When Mystery Guest sees a problem, they take a different approach—learn about the misadventures and hundreds of hours spent setting up a deployment pipeline The Mystery Guest Way™.

Ever wondered how you got this far without knowing IaC? Learn Terraform from the ground up with live demos from resource blocks to modules to dynamic commits.

Discover how sharing a side hobby/project caught someone's attention and turned into a career—an unexpected path to professional success.

PowerShell is incredibly versatile—learn how to interact with web APIs, automate website interactions, and create beautiful web-based front-ends for your scripts.

Wearing many IT hats? Learn how to overcome time-consuming tasks by taking advantage of scripting and APIs—real examples from a systems administrator's automation journey.

Windows Admins aren't left behind in DevOps—learn how Ansible fully supports Microsoft Windows and how to use it to deploy and configure Windows workloads in Azure.

Modern IT operations has changed dramatically—explore what "operations" looks like when anybody can provision anything, and whether "NoOps" really means nobody does operations.

New head of a one-person ops team for rapid software development? Learn strategies for making the latest versions instantly available while preventing broken code releases.

Infrastructure as Code is so 2017—now it's Everything as Code! Learn how to use HashiCorp Terraform to provision AWS resources and manage non-infrastructure services with no manual intervention.

Discover the power of Bash as an interpretive language—learn how builtins can make scripts faster, portable, and more fun, including sending emails over TCP sockets without external commands.

Explore ORNL's application that consolidates data from multiple management and security systems into a high-confidence repository—building a holistic view of devices in a dynamically changing landscape.

Learn how Azure Automation enables you to automate creation, deployment, monitoring, and maintenance of resources in your Hybrid Cloud using PowerShell & Python runbooks with secure credential management.

Dream of scripts that write code for you? Learn how to use PowerShell metaprogramming to rebuild AD infrastructure, generate T-SQL statements, and create dynamic functions with minimal code.

Discover how GitLab's open-source platform with integrated CI/CD offers the same powerful single user experience to sysadmins as it does to developers—a low-cost, easy-to-use tool for infrastructure management.

Ansible brings simple, agent-less automation to sysadmins who didn’t sign up to be programmers—making your job easier and more enjoyable.

With PowerShell Core now running on Linux and Mac, join Wesley Kirkland to explore cross-platform automation in the next era of scripting convergence.

Bridge the gap between DevOps and Security with InSpec—bringing compliance into the pipeline so everyone can join the adventure (even Security).

Go beyond basic uptime checks with functional testing using Cucumber and Watir to ensure your systems and applications are truly working as intended.

Get introduced to PowerShell and explore how its object-oriented design makes it an essential tool for scalable automation in Windows environments.

Meet Vagrant and Packer, the dynamic duo from HashiCorp that streamlines and toughens up your VM provisioning and deployment workflow.

Explore the power of Out of Band management tools like DRAC, IPMI, and BMC, and how they enhance automation, monitoring, and root cause analysis.

Dive into the evolving world of DevOps, cloud computing, and the shifting role of system administrators in an industry moving from pets to cattle.