How to: Operations / IT OPS
See also [Monitoring](#monitoring)
> News
* [TechBeacon](https://techbeacon.com/25-it-ops-pros-experts-follow-twitter) - 25 IT Ops pros and experts to follow on Twitter
* [TechBeacon](https://techbeacon.com/it-ops) - IT-OPS articles & resources
* [O'Reilly Media](https://www.oreilly.com/topics/operations) - The latest ideas, articles about operations.
* [Red Hat Blog](https://www.redhat.com/en/blog) - Official Red Hat Blog
* [Code as Craft](https://codeascraft.com/category/operations/) - Posts in category operations
* [Linda Rosencrance](https://techbeacon.com/best-cloud-it-ops-conferences-2018) - (2018) The best cloud and IT Ops conferences of 2018
* [sysadvent](https://sysadvent.blogspot.be/) - One article for each day of December, ending on the 25th article | great articles about systems administration topics written by fellow sysadmins.
* [SysAdvent Calendar](https://www.redpill-linpro.com/sysadvent/) - Pre Christmas Tips and Tricks for Sysadmins
* [IT Landscape for sysadmins](https://sysadmin.it-landscape.info/) - Open source projects aggregator for system administrators.

> Learn
* [Michael Buckbee](https://blog.varonis.com/definitive-guide-to-dns-ttl-settings/) - Definitive Guide to DNS TTL Settings
* [Vivek Gite](https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-use-dig-to-find-dns-time-to-live-ttl-values/) - Linux / Unix: Dig Command Find Out TTL (Time to Live) Value For DNS Records
* [DigitalOcean](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/what-do-you-do-with-your-first-five-minutes-on-a-new-server) - What do you do with your first five minutes on a new server?
* [Sylvain Kalache](https://www.linux.com/blog/first-5-commands-when-i-connect-linux-server) - First 5 Commands When I Connect on a Linux Server
* [Bryan Kennedy](https://plusbryan.com/my-first-5-minutes-on-a-server-or-essential-security-for-linux-servers) - (2013) My First 5 Minutes On A Server; Or, Essential Security for Linux Servers
* [Netflix](https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/linux-performance-analysis-in-60-000-milliseconds-accc10403c55) - Linux Performance Analysis in 60,000 Milliseconds
* [alicegoldfuss/oncall-handbook](https://github.com/alicegoldfuss/oncall-handbook) - Tips and tricks for getting through on-call
* [Charity Majors aka mipsytipsy](https://honeycomb.io/blog/2017/04/lies-my-parents-told-me-about-logs/) - (2017) Lies My Parents Told Me (About Logs)
* [Aurore Malherbes](https://www.theodo.fr/blog/2017/05/prevent-command-with-a-specific-option-to-be-run-on-your-server/) - (2017) Prevent command with a specific option to be run on your server
* [Pat Cable](https://blog.threatstack.com/balancing-security-and-your-on-call-rotation-using-deputize) - Balancing Security and Your On-Call Rotation Using Deputize
* [Brendan D. Gregg](https://twitter.com/tgraf__/status/855100288251961346/photo/1) - Awesome 60s perf analysis cheatsheet : Host Perf Analysis in 60s
* [Jon Prall](http://jprall.typepad.com/blog/2010/10/85-operational-rules.html) - (2007) 85 Operations Rules to Live By
* [John Allspaw](http://www.kitchensoap.com/2007/10/11/knowing-when-you-can-fail-is-mandatory/) - (2007) Knowing when you can fail is mandatory.
* [LZone](http://lzone.de/) - Various Cheat Sheets about sysadmin, development, it ops, services management and virtualization
* [LZone](http://lzone.de/cheat-sheet/IT-Ops) - IT Ops Cheat Sheet
* [David Mytton](https://blog.serverdensity.com/humanops-server-density/) - How we do HumanOps at Server Density
* [Matthew Skelton](https://blog.softwareoperability.com/2013/04/08/lets-talk-about-operational-features-not-non-functional-requirements/) - (2013) Let’s Talk About Operational Features, not Non-Functional Requirements
* [David Mytton](https://blog.serverdensity.com/how-and-why-we-use-devops-checklists/) - How and why we use DevOps checklists
* [kahun/awesome-sysadmin](https://github.com/kahun/awesome-sysadmin) - A curated list of amazingly awesome open source sysadmin resources
* :star: [**n1trux/awesome-sysadmin**](https://github.com/n1trux/awesome-sysadmin) - (fork of [kahun/awesome-sysadmin](https://github.com/kahun/awesome-sysadmin))
* [Chandan Kumar](https://geekflare.com/cheat-sheet-system-admin/) - linux sysadmin cheatsheets
* [AskF5 Support](https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K12213214) - Overview of colored status icons in the Configuration utility
* [Deb Shinder](http://techgenix.com/fall-of-all-powerful-admin/) - The rise and fall of the all-powerful admin
* [Rundeck](http://rundeck.org/) - Turn your operations procedures into self-service jobs.
* [Damon Edwards](http://rundeck.org/news/2014/01/08/Jenkins-is-for-development-Rundeck-is-for-operations.html) - (2014) Jenkins is for Development. Rundeck is for Operations.
* [Sysdig](https://www.sysdig.org/) - troubleshooting and visibility tool for linux, windows and mac osx with native support for containers technologies
* [aelsabbahy/goss](https://github.com/aelsabbahy/goss#installation) - goss : Quick and Easy server testing/validation
* [Stack Exchange](