Free software allows us to save a lot of time and effort, because people all over the world can share their work. Otherwise, every company or organization would have to build its own software. This works great for common projects such as the Linux kernel. But with smaller projects there are often bottlenecks that cannot…
What is Cloud Foundry? Cloud Foundry is an open source multi-cloud application platform. It was originally written to enable developers to rapidly deploy their workloads to an opinionated platform. Opinionated in a sense, that it takes a stance on complex technical decisions and has many predefined settings which help its users to complete their journey…
The Dilemma between Sales, Development and System Administration Developers are an essential component and success factor for many companies that are concerned with the digitalization of their processes and markets. While in the conventional IT process chain the developers were still very much dependent on the system administrators, there is a strong trend today towards…
First of all let’s get one thing out of the way. If you think this will be a blog post about Keanu Reeves starring in his A-role you are wrong. Although I love The Matrix, and I’m talking just about the first movie, this blog post will be about setting up your own homeserver of matrix.org. Matrix…
As I’m forced to work from home on my laptop with no external screens at the moment, I have taken a moment to take a look at my tmux and vim configurations. What bothered me most was switching between tmux panes and vim splits as I had to remember which key strokes I need to…
And here we go again. The second year in a row I find myself on a train directed to Bruxelles, Belgium. I will join the mass of hackers a professionals grouping at the Université libre de Bruxelles for this year’s FOSDEM. I went through the schedule and bookmarked the most suited talks for me, while…
Adfinis SyGroup was awarded the “Best Swiss Red Hat Partner of the Year Award” for years of cooperation at the highest level, innovative projects and unique know-how. At this year’s Red Hat Partner Summit in Prague, the Swiss open source service provider Adfinis SyGroup had reason to celebrate. The numerous successfully completed OpenShift, Ansible…
Having spent three days in Amsterdam attending HashiConf EU 2019 we were able to meet interesting people and learn loads of new features in the HashiCorp product suite. Some extracts and interesting facts to look into have been collected here for anyone who has not been able to participate in this event. Consul https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-consul-1-6 Consul…
The Document Foundation (TDF) announced today that Adfinis SyGroup – a Swiss FOSS company headquarted in Bern, with offices in Basel, Zurich and Crissier (Vaud) – has joined the project’s Advisory Board. Adfinis SyGroup is using LibreOffice for office productivity, in addition to providing professional consultancy to customers with SLA contracts to support migrations from…
Who is HashiCorp, the unicorn that talks to the DevOps? Armon Dadgar is co-founder and co-CTO of HashiCorp and publisher of HashiCorp Terraform and other cloud management tools rooted in the DevOps philosphy. A partner company, the Swiss service provider Adfinis SyGroup, invited him to Geneva to take part at the LEC. ICTjournal took the…
