4 levels of DevOps documentation maturity
DevOps and DevSecOps require agile documentation practices to deliver quality documentation on time with an iterative software delivery cycle. It’s a similar journey to DevOps with a move to automation and a more agile approach to content. If documentation is only now entering your organization’s DevOps discussions, it’s time to catch your documentation practices up to DevOps. Here are the four levels of DevOps...
Why I love KDE for my Linux desktop
One of the things that open source prides itself on is choice. You don’t have to settle for anything you don’t love. You can change your file manager, your text editor, and you even have over 24 desktops to choose from. As with many Linux users, I was pretty flexible about the desktop I used at first. I didn’t know what I liked at first, because I hadn’t tried everything available to me. read more Powered by...
3 steps to start running containers today
Whether you’re interested in them as part of your job, for future job opportunities, or just out of interest in new technology, containers can seem pretty overwhelming to even an experienced systems administrator. So how do you actually get started with containers? And what’s the path from containers to Kubernetes? Also, why is there a path from one to the other at all? As you might expect, the best place to start is the...
Use different time zones on your Linux KDE desktop
I used to marvel at people who required more than one clock, each set to an exotic timezone, on the wall. I saw it mostly in movies, so when I met someone in real life with lots of clocks, it made them seem particularly important, like the leader of a global spy network or a big banking syndicate. And yet lately, I find myself needing to be aware of at least three different timezones on a regular basis. It’s not that I’ve...
Crop and resize photos on Linux with Gwenview
A good photo can be a powerful thing. It expresses what you saw in a very literal sense, but it also speaks to what you experienced. Little things say a lot: the angle you choose when taking the photo, how large something looms in the frame, and by contrast the absence of those conscious choices. Photos are often not meant as documentation of what really happened, and instead they become insights into how you, the photographer,...
Add, switch, delete, and manage Linux users in KDE
Sharing a computer in a household is usually a pretty casual affair. When you need the computer, you pick it up and start using it. It’s simple in theory, and mostly works. That is, until you accidentally grab the common computer and accidentally post screenshots of your server’s uptime to your partner’s cooking blog. Then it’s time for separate user accounts. read more Powered by...
