IT Pro Tuesday #307
Welcome back to IT Pro Tuesday!
In the latest Security Swarm Podcast: “The Security Implications of Migrating from VMware,” we talk about the challenges and opportunities organizations face amidst the Broadcom acquisition of VMware, including the steep price hikes for VMware licenses and the security vulnerabilities recently discovered in VMware products.
We’re looking for your favorite tips and tools we can share with the community… those that help you do your job better and more easily. Please share your suggestions on the IT Pro Tuesday subreddit, and we’ll be featuring them in the coming weeks.
Now on to this week’s list!
A Free Tool
k9s is a terminal based UI that’s designed to interact with Kubernetes clusters in order to make it easier to navigate, observe and manage deployed applications. It continually watches Kubernetes for changes and offers subsequent commands to interact with observed resources. Our thanks for the recommendation go to sfltech.
A Website
Phoronix is a great way to stay on top of all the latest info about Linux and open source. You’ll find tons of reviews on hardware of all types, current news affecting the open-source community, performance benchmarks, and a community tech forum. Kindly suggested by sassanix.
A Tip
turkshead shares a time saver:
Shell loops. You run a loop in the shell with like
for i in {1..50}; do [stuff]; done
And it just does [stuff] 50 times. If you’ve got 50 hosts you want to run some random commands on, just figure out the command line on a test host, add quoting, and wrap it in a for loop. You can add | tee filename.log to capture the output.
For bonus points, use parallel and it all happens at once.
Another Free Tool
Zellij is a terminal workspace with the base functionality of a terminal multiplexer that also allows users to extend it and create a personalized environment with panes laid out exactly as desired when they start the app. spidernik84 says, “Nowadays i suggest trying Zellij over tmux. It’s pretty cool especially for newstarters.”
A Podcast
K12 TechTalk Podcast delves into trending topics that are relevant to tech professionals who work in the education system. vesikk adds, “Chris, Josh, and Mark have great banter and talk from experience as head of IT in their respective schools.”
P.S. Bonus Free Tools
xed is a CLI tool for performing basic text transformations, with an intuitive interface and support for multi-line regular expressions by default. zqpmx likes it as a “text editor with regular expressions.”
Lynis is a security auditing tool for UNIX-based systems. Performs an in-depth security scan as well as scan for general system information, vulnerable software packages, and possible configuration issues. Runs on the system itself to test defenses and provide tips for system hardening. Appreciated by Nnyan.
