Let’s get this community popping with some useful information. Reddit’s sysadmin subreddit seemed like a place of complainers, I look forward to having actual productive conversation in this community.

  • starship_lizard@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    Kinda new to the whole sysadmin thing, but tmux has been an absolute game changer for me. No more remote desktop for long running processes, I can just do everything from ssh.

    • The_Pete@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Put a dev box in the cloud/Colo whatever run tmux, learn about sync panes, work on multiple hosts at once, …, Profit

  • tjes@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    Powershell scripts have been my tool of choice for the past few years (stuck in Windows world unfortunately).

    Lately I’ve been dipping my toes into automating switch config - Ansible has been fantastic for that.

  • Dasnap@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    My company has been moving onto Kubernetes recently and I’ve found Lens to be very helpful with it. It has a nice cluster dashboard and has inbuilt shortcuts to jump onto containers, see logs, etc.

  • DarkSpoon@lemm.ee
    2·
    1 year ago

    Big fan of the IODD. I love having a ton of bootable images ready to go on a single drive. I mostly use it to boot disk wiping software, disk imaging software, and malware removal tools but it also serves as my main flash drive with common software and scripts I use a lot.

  • benkinder@infosec.pub
    2·
    1 year ago

    Microsoft’s PowerToys has a lot of cool stuff in it and I use the color picker, awake, and mass rename tools frequently.

    Scappman is also very useful if you’re deploying software though Intune and provides automated software updates for a lot of applications.

  • rolaulten@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    Vscode. Yes it’s managed by Microsoft, and yes it’s a newage emacs (it can do anything with add-ons), but regardless of what your tasks are it’s probably going to be useful.

  • davidhun@lemmy.sdf.org
    2·
    1 year ago

    For systems creation, provisioning and config management Hashicorp’s terraform and packer, and RedHat’s ansible are indispensable.

    govc for managing guests in vCenter.

    jq for parsing json.

    I like tmux better than screen, but use both.

    Not really a tool, per se, but Netbox is a great DCIM/IPAM application for managing your infrastructure.

    Just learned about it and am currently learning, but Apache JMeter looks like a useful tool for running automated load testing against different kinds of services.

  • rgr7353@infosec.pub
    1·
    1 year ago

    KeepassXC. Covers all I need for my personal password management, I like putting my encrypted databases to e.g. OneDrive instead of relying to something solely cloud-based.

    Vivaldi Browser. Because I like messing around with tabs and this is one is supporting side tabs (instead having them on top), you can have Chrome extensions as well.

  • w2tpmf@lemmy.world
    0·
    1 year ago

    PDQ! Inventory and Deploy

    Along with pre packed PowerShell scripts.

    I have a bunch of pages and tasks that can be run from the right click menu in Inventory so not only myself, but also less technical team members can run them.

    It also is nice to RDP or VNC into a machine with a keyboard shortcut.