August 2020 top 10 sysadmin how-tos and tutorials

Check out the top performers from the month or discover some great articles you may have missed.

Posted: September 2, 2020 by Tyler Carrigan (Editorial Team, Red Hat)

August has been a phenomenal month here at Enable Sysadmin. We set new records in several categories, most notably having more than 319k page views. This was accomplished by publishing 37 articles and growing our community by adding 12 new writers.

At the heart of every great month of publishing is the content itself and August was no different. This month's list includes ten different authors and spans topics such as network troubleshooting, Linux tools, documentation, authentication, filesystems, and more. We are confident that you will find something of interest to you and that the tips, tricks, and ideas shared here will contribute to your growth as a sysadmin.

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My top 10 terminal shortcuts for Linux

There are many advantages to using terminal shortcuts. Here are 10 great ones, plus a bonus tip.

Use Vim macros to automate frequent tasks

Make your text editing easier and more efficient by using macros to automate tasks in Vim.

Moving from docker-compose to Podman pods

Follow the migration of a virtual machine from Docker to Podman.

5 Linux network troubleshooting commands

Linux provides many command-line tools to help sysadmins manage, configure, and troubleshoot network settings.

Sysadmin university: How to document code and scripts in Linux

Everyone wants you to document your code but no one teaches you how. That's about to change.

Setting up multi-factor authentication on Linux systems

Pluggable Authentication Modules allow Linux to work with Google Authenticator and other OTP tools to add two-factor security to your system.

System statistics: Linux stat commands to know

Take a look through our collection of articles about tools that help you pull the data you need to better manage your Linux systems.

An introduction to crun, a fast and low-memory footprint container runtime

Check out crun, an OCI-compliant alternative to runc for Linux container runtime.

ReaR: Backup and recover your Linux server with confidence

How about a sysadmin tool that helps you to "relax and recover?" ReaR does that.

Mount NFS filesystems with autofs

Learn about the autofs utility and how it can help you to automatically mount local and remote filesystems in Linux.

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Tyler Carrigan

Tyler is the Sr. Community Manager at Enable Sysadmin, a submarine veteran, and an all-round tech enthusiast! He was first introduced to Red Hat in 2012 by way of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux-based combat system inside the USS Georgia Missile Control Center. More about me