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Life as a SysAdmin with Nate Lager | The IT Guy Show Ep. 14

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 09:00:00 -0500

A wide-ranging chat with Nate Lager about the sysadmin life, from burnout and bash scripts to automation and authenticity.

Working in GovTech: What's Different? | The IT Guy Show Ep. 12

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 09:00:00 -0500

Joel Krooswyk and I compare public sector and government tech work, covering compliance, modernization, AI, and career shifts.

Best Practices for TuxCare Radar Security Scans

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 09:00:00 -0500

I wrote this for TuxCare on building real-world Radar routines, from tagging systems by risk zone to trading bloated spreadsheets for audit-ready reports.

NixOS: The Distro That Thinks in Code | The IT Guy Show Ep. 11

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 09:00:00 -0500

Aaron Honeycutt breaks down NixOS, declarative configuration, and how to get started without pulling your hair out.

GitOps for the Linux Administrator | The IT Guy Show Ep. 10

Tue, 29 Jul 2025 09:00:00 -0500

Christian Hernandez explains GitOps in plain terms for Linux admins, comparing it to traditional sysadmin practice and where to start.

Building a Linux Community with Noah Chelliah | RHEL Presents Ep. 82

Wed, 05 Mar 2025 09:00:00 -0600

A companion to RHEL Presents episode 82, where Nate and I talk with Noah Chelliah about community, careers, and getting people on-ramped into open source.

Deploying RHEL with Ansible Automation Platform | RHEL Presents Ep. 83

Thu, 19 Sep 2024 09:00:00 -0600

In my last episode as host, Brian and I bring on three guests to demo a full GitOps pipeline deploying and testing RHEL workloads on Azure with Ansible Automation Platform.

Standardization and Management at Scale | Up and Running with Red Hat Satellite 04

Fri, 13 Sep 2024 09:00:00 -0500

The finale of the Satellite miniseries, where Richard and I use Ansible system roles, host groups, and OpenSCAP to standardize and manage RHEL at scale.

APIs Decoded: From Basics to Production-Ready | The IT Guy Show Ep. 4

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 09:00:00 -0500

Budha, a developer advocate at Tyk, walks me through APIs from fundamentals to production-ready with gateways.

What's New in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 and 8.10

Wed, 15 May 2024 09:00:00 -0500

A live webinar covering RHEL 9.4 and 8.10 features alongside the big Red Hat Summit 2024 announcements.

A Day in the Life of a Solutions Architect | RHEL Presents Ep. 73

Thu, 07 Mar 2024 09:00:00 -0600

Chuck Marshall joins Brian and me to walk through what an account solution architect really does day to day across RHEL, Ansible, and OpenShift.

Building Applications with GitLab on RHEL | RHEL Presents Ep. 72

Wed, 24 Jan 2024 09:00:00 -0600

RHEL Presents 72 on building apps with GitLab on RHEL.

Event-driven Infrastructure with Ansible | RHEL Presents Ep. 69

Thu, 16 Nov 2023 09:00:00 -0600

Nuno Martins joins Brian and me to explain how Event-Driven Ansible listens for events and kicks off automation without a human in the loop.

Management with System Roles | Into the Terminal 79

Fri, 25 Aug 2023 09:00:00 -0500

Applying supported roles across many hosts.

Three Services to Operationalize RHEL | Modernizing RHEL Management 04

Wed, 16 Aug 2023 09:00:00 -0500

Three operational Insights services in one episode: Advisor recommendations, custom Policy checks, and Drift comparisons between systems and baselines.

Simplifying Patch Management | Modernizing RHEL Management 03

Wed, 09 Aug 2023 09:00:00 -0500

How Insights handles patching at fleet scale, from date-based patch templates to signed remediation playbooks you can run right from the UI.

Build and Launch | Modernizing RHEL Management 02

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 09:00:00 -0500

An all-demo episode where John builds a custom RHEL image and launches two systems straight into AWS with auto-registration turned on.

CentOS Linux Management Compared to Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 09:00:00 -0500

A former CentOS admin’s honest comparison of daily life on CentOS versus RHEL, covering subscriptions, support, Image Builder, Insights, Satellite, and Ansible.

Why Should I Standardize on RHEL?

Wed, 14 Jun 2023 09:00:00 -0500

A short take on why standardizing on Red Hat Enterprise Linux tames the sprawl of mismatched systems across clouds, VMs, and bare metal.

What's New in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 and 8.8

Tue, 16 May 2023 09:00:00 -0500

A webinar walkthrough of what’s new in RHEL 9.2 and 8.8, and the direction of the platform.

Build a golden image for your RHEL homelab with Image Builder

Mon, 20 Mar 2023 08:00:00 -0500

In How I built a homelab with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), I laid out my plans for revamping my home lab using as many Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Red Hat-adjacent tools as I could get my…

Automating RHEL with Ansible Automation Platform | RHEL Presents Ep. 47

Wed, 02 Nov 2022 09:00:00 -0600

RHEL Presents 47 on automating RHEL with Ansible Automation Platform.

Live from AnsibleFest 2022 | RHEL Presents Ep. 46

Wed, 19 Oct 2022 09:00:00 -0500

RHEL Presents 46, live from AnsibleFest 2022.

Ansible Beginner's Guide: Automate the Pain Away

Thu, 11 Aug 2022 07:03:00 -0500

Way back in the day, humanity created computers to help make our lives easier. In a lot of ways, they have; in others, it’s made life much more tedious, especially for the SysAdmin. What used to be a…

Rolling with System Roles | RHEL Presents Ep. 41

Wed, 27 Jul 2022 09:00:00 -0500

RHEL Presents 41 on RHEL System Roles.

System Roles | Into the Terminal 28

Thu, 09 Jun 2022 09:00:00 -0500

Supported roles for networking, storage, timesync, and more.

Ifs, Loops, and Scripting | Into the Terminal 20

Thu, 07 Apr 2022 09:00:00 -0500

Conditionals with if/test and comparison operators.

Writing Shell Scripts | Into the Terminal 18

Wed, 30 Mar 2022 09:00:00 -0500

Structure of a script: shebang, variables, and arguments.

Sudo Show 12: GitOps for Sysadmins

Thu, 12 Nov 2020 10:15:00 -0600

Episode 12 of the Sudo Show is the one where Brandon and I dig into GitOps, and I think it’s one of our better technical episodes because we ground it in stuff that’s actually happened to us instead…

Sudo Show 7: Our First Interview, GitLab's Greg Myers

Thu, 17 Sep 2020 09:34:00 -0500

This one’s special to me. Episode 7 of the Sudo Show was our first ever on air interview, and we brought on Greg Myers, a support engineer at GitLab, to talk about what it’s actually like working…

Sudo Show 5: Open Source Cloud Management Tools

Thu, 20 Aug 2020 11:52:00 -0500

Sudo Show episode 5 kicked off a new arc on cloud architecture, and we used it to dig into open source cloud management tools with Brandon doing most of the heavy lifting since this is squarely his…

Sudo Show 03: DevOps and Automation

Thu, 23 Jul 2020 10:58:00 -0500

Episode three, aired July 23, 2020, tackles one of the most misunderstood terms in IT. Brandon and I both came at DevOps from different timelines, and that contrast made for a good episode. He had…