On schedule, IBM launched its next-gen big-iron Power E1080 server ideal for huge databases. Included in the announcement is a peek at the future of Red Hat integration: a unique-to-IBM licensing option for OpenShift.

This blog shows how to use the API on Ubuntu’s “Launchpad” package creation system to retrieve metadata, like the date a patch was created.

This blog is a short intro to eBPF for people who aren’t heavy coders but want to try it out themselves.

We’ve got IT modernization all wrong.

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AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud each provide an interface for virtual machines to read metadata information about themselves. All of these clouds call this the Instance Metadata Service (IMDS).

This blog describes how to use Azure Arc to monitor syslog from an Ubuntu server running outside of Azure. I use an Arc Connected Machine configured with the Log Analytics extension to collect syslog events and send them into a Log Analytics Workspace on Azure.

This post describes how to use the Azure Monitor Agent to collect OS-level metrics from a Linux VM on Azure.

This post describes how to create a shell session to an Ubuntu instance on EC2 using only the browser, with no SSH client or keys.