Managing Computers with Automation

When things are managed automatically with good tools, they work. When people manage them, they often work. Here we talk about automation, managing systems, open source, and related topics.

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Categories

  • bad examples
  • complexity
  • DR
  • eating your own dog food
  • fencing
  • filesystems
  • FOSS
  • HA
  • HA practice
  • HA theory
  • Heartbeat
  • linux
  • Linux-HA
  • load balancing
  • monitoring
  • news
  • OSS / Free Software
  • policies
  • quorum
  • replication
  • standards
  • virtualization
  • watchdog
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