configuration management

Start with a clear picture of your hosting environment Before you wire up automation or build pipelines, take a moment to map…

Checklists are one of the most effective tools you can use to reduce mistakes and speed up routine work in hosting environments.…

Turning Salt into a Platform for hosting and Security Automation Salt began as a fast remote-execution and configuration management tool, but it…

What “salt” can mean for hosting performance The single word “salt” shows up in several technical places, and each has a different…

Salt is a fast, flexible configuration management and orchestration tool that handles configuration, remote execution, and automation across fleets of servers. This…

Why Salt matters for hosting environments Salt provides a fast, flexible way to manage configuration and orchestrate actions across large fleets of…

When Salt (SaltStack) gets used to manage hundreds or thousands of hosts, small problems show up as repeated failures. This guide walks…

How to use tools effectively in hosting environments When you manage servers or web infrastructure, the tools you pick and how you…

Why paying attention to vulnerabilities matters in hosting environments hosting platforms,whether shared servers, virtual private servers, bare-metal, or cloud containers,are the backbone…