IT Pro Tuesday #310
Welcome back to IT Pro Tuesday!
We’re looking for 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
Foreman is an open-source tool for managing physical and virtual servers throughout their lifecycle. Offers an easy way to automate repetitive tasks, deploy applications, and proactively manage servers, on-premise or in the cloud. spyingwind includes it in the list of “software I can’t live without.”
Another Free Tool
Dockge is a reactive self-hosted Docker compose.yaml stack-oriented manager with a single-page interface for logs, YAML editor, terminal, and container controls. No_Tart_1619 explains, “I’m migrating my services onto a new server and decided to try Dockge [because Portainer was] really slow at deploying, restarting, stopping etc containers/stacks and it didn’t give feedback on what was happening… Dockge responds instantly and brings up the terminal and container logs for easy debugging. Makes managing services so much easier.”
A Tip
How to check any SSL connection, compliments of adrenx:
E.g., openssl s_client -connect ldap.yourdomain.com:636
Yet Another Free Tool
PipeWire is a Linux audio/video solution that provides a low-latency, graph-based processing engine for audio and video devices. Its powerful security model makes interacting with a/v devices from containerized applications easy, with seamless support for PulseAudio, JACK, ALSA, and GStreamer. A favorite that spyingwind likes to pair up with WirePlumber.
One More Free Tool
WirePlumber is a modular session/policy manager for PipeWire with a plugin framework and an API that allows you to extend the WirePlumber daemon, to write management or status tools for PipeWire and custom session managers for embedded devices. Another suggestion from spyingwind.
P.S. Bonus Free Tools
ImgBurn is a lightweight, flexible burning application for CD, DVD, HD DVD, and Blu-ray. Offers some nice advanced features and supports all the latest drives. Kindly suggested by dartheagleeye.
Mailscavator allows you to easily select all your PST Outlook archive files in order to split and reorganize them by date and/or size. user_none has used it to “split some [PST files] close to 100GB … never failed me.”
