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Greetings, Tech Talkers! This is Tor, your trusted network engineering uplink. Today we’re making Ubuntu do the boring work for you to ensure your EVE-NG instance upgrades automatically! Intro EVE-NG runs on Ubuntu, which means it inherits Ubuntu’s package management system and update mechanisms. That’s a good thing — but only if they’re configured correctly. Out of the box, Ubuntu’s automatic updates are conservative and security-focused. They do not automatically upgrade t

LAST UPDATED ON 7/6/2023 What the heck is "Bare Metal", anyways? The term "bare metal " refers running computer operating system software directly on computer hardware. In regards to the servers, we need to make a distinction between operating systems are installed directly onto the server hardware or "metal" and those that are installed on top of an operating system. When we virtualize a system on top of another system, we refer to this as a Virtual Machine, which is manage

Installing DNA Center in the home lab requires some beefy hardware, but it can be done! In this article I will walk though my experience and

LAST UPDATED ON 4/20/2022 What the heck is "Bare Metal", anyways? Bare metal refers running software directly on computer hardware. In a...