This december, the staff at Redpill Linpro runs an advent calendar with sysadmin-related content!

Our season two of the SysAdvent Calendar kicked off, as expected, on December 1st.

As with the original sysadvent blog, the article contents this year will be a bit longer compared to last year, ranging from ONIE switches through S3 website buckets to Vagrant usage.

Head on over to the sysadvent calendar for the articles!

Lars Olafsen

Operations Manager at Redpill Linpro

Lars has been in the IT business for around two decades now, working initially both as a developer and systems administrator. He's been with Redpill Linpro for 9 years, and in addition to being one of our operations managers, he still gets the time to solder together pieces of code.

10 Common mistakes in Automation

In April 2022 Gartner published an article about ten common mistakes when focusing on automation within a business.

We felt our customers would benefit from deepening and adding to their post.

Therefore here are the ten (same) points Garter already made, but explained in depth and backed up by our experience within this field.


01 - Falling in love with a single technology

Quite a common problem we encounter when assisting with introducing automation. Often a business ... [continue reading]

Shell alias evolution

Published on April 28, 2022