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When I'm working on projects that require provisioning cloud infrastructure, my workflow has two disparate components: one is infrastructure orchestration, which includes Terraform to bring up the infrastructure (for instance, new EKS clusters), and the second is the provisioning component, which includes Ansible or Bash scripts to instantiate and initialize that infrastructure to accept new deployments (for instance, installing Cluster Autoscaler, kube-state-metrics, and so on.)

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You may have encountered this brief introduction to GitOps shared by prevalent cloud software engineer, Kelsey Hightower:

GitOps: versioned CI/CD on top of declarative infrastructure. Stop scripting and start shipping. https://t.co/SgUlHgNrnY

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It looks like X.Org Server 21.1 (long in development the past few years as X.Org Server 1.21) will see a stable release in the coming weeks...

Russian Arm SoC now shipping in Russian PCs running Russian Linux  The Register

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The Linux “tar” stands for tape archive, which is used by a large number of Linux/Unix system administrators to deal with tape drives backup. The tar command is used to rip a collection of

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Desktop and All-in-One Arm Linux computers launched with Baikal-M processor  CNX Software

A Case for Linux in 2021  The Kathmandu Post

Intel's next-generation C/C++ compilers are fully leveraging the LLVM compiler stack in place of their former proprietary compiler code-base. Intel has "complete[d] adoption" of LLVM moving forward for their C/C++ compiler needs...

Join Fedora Linux Desktop to an Active Directory domain: Here's how  TechRepublic

The latest AMD SEV work happening to the Linux kernel for benefiting EPYC servers with virtualization is the new "sev_secret" module for allowing guests to access confidential computing secret areas...

Linux "sev_secret" Patches For Tapping Confidential Computing Secret Areas In AMD SEV  Phoronix

BlackMatter Group Debuts Linux-Targeting Ransomware  BankInfoSecurity.com

For more than one year now Oracle engineers have been working on Trenchboot support for securely booting the Linux kernel. Sent out today is the third revision of this work for establishing a dynamic root of trust for measurement...

This is why Valve is switching from Debian to Arch for Steam Deck's Linux OS  PC Gamer

How to Install Steam on a Chromebook  Alphr

Arch Linux, Clear Linux & Ubuntu Against Windows 10/11 On Intel Rocket Lake  Phoronix

Last month after Microsoft began publishing their Windows Insider Preview builds of Windows 11, I ran some early Windows 11 benchmarks against Linux using an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X. Linux led in those benchmarks on the AMD Zen 3 desktop while for those wondering if that still holds true for Intel hardware, here are benchmarks of a Core i9 11900K "Rocket Lake" desktop with Windows 10 21H1, Windows 11 in its latest preview build as of testing, and then compared to Arch Linux / Clear Linux / Ubuntu.

Feeling Bored? You Can Play Tetris on the Linux Terminal  MUO - MakeUseOf

Best Linux for 16" MBP? (Apple CSAM scandal)  Mac Rumors

Linux Operating System Market 2021 Business Scenario – Manjaro, Red Hat, Inc, Linux Mint, Debian, Arch Linux, IBM Corporation – KhelPanda  KhelPanda