Fabric: a System Administrator’s Best Friend

Do you routinely make changes to more than a dozen machines at a time?
Read this article to find out about a tool to make that task much easier.
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Python Scripts as a Replacement for Bash Utility Scripts

For Linux users, the command line is a celebrated part of our entire
experience. Unlike other popular operating systems, where the command
line is a scary proposition for all but the most experienced veterans, in
the Linux community, command-line use is encouraged. more>>

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Getting Started with Salt Stack-the Other Configuration Management System Built with Python

I was proudly wearing one of my Salt Stack shirts the other day when my daughter
asked me, “What is Salt Stack?”
I began by explaining the problem it solved.
If you have multiple servers and want to do things to those servers, you
would need to log in to each one and do those things one at a time on each one.
They could be fairly simple tasks like restarting them or checking how long
they have been running. Or, you might want to do more complicated things like
installing software and then configuring that software based upon your own specific
criteria. You also might want to add users and configure permissions for them.
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