Open Source Toolchains for Sysadmins

by Mark on July 30, 2010

Open Source Tool ChainsIn celebration of System Administrator Appreciation Day I published a story at Linux.com called Open Source Toolchains for Systems Administrators, here is an excerpt:

“Software developers are very familiar with toolchains, series of programs where the output of one program forms the input for the next. A free software example would be using the GNU Emacs editor, the GNU bin-utils and the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) to write a program. Software developers frequently create programs and subroutines that are used in other programs rather than recoding the same process over and over again.

Just as software developers have different task-specific tools to make up software tool chains (e.g. editors, compilers, build scripts), systems administrators can use tool chains made up of tools used to automate management functions and maintenance of Linux servers.”

I think it’s a good description of how to automate Linux server administration, read it and let me know.

Linux.com: Open Source Toolchains for Systems Administrators

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