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Ruby for DevOps: Building a REST API Health-Check & Uptime Monitor (No Gems Required)

EducatorJuly 15, 2026DevOps

Build api_healthcheck.rb: a dependency-free Ruby script that polls REST endpoints, retries with exponential backoff, checks status code and response body,...

Ruby for DevOps: Automating Windows Scheduled Tasks with schtasks.exe

EducatorJuly 15, 2026DevOps

Build win_task_audit.rb: a dependency-free Ruby script that audits Windows Scheduled Tasks via schtasks.exe, flagging failing, disabled, and SYSTEM-level tasks, and...

Ruby for DevOps: SSH Fleet Automation — Run Commands Across Multiple Linux Servers (No Gems Required)

EducatorJuly 15, 2026DevOps

Build fleet_ssh.rb: a dependency-free Ruby script that runs a command across a fleet of Linux servers in parallel over SSH...

Claude for Chrome: 7 Workflows for DevOps & Security

EducatorJuly 15, 2026AI DevOps

A practical Claude for Chrome tutorial for DevOps and security pros: setup, permissions, workflow recording, and 7 real automation workflows.

Claude MCP Connectors: 7 Workflows for DevOps & Security

EducatorJuly 10, 2026AI DevOps

A practical Claude MCP connectors tutorial for DevOps and security pros: setup, the Connectors Directory, Claude Code, and 7 real...

Diagram of config_templater.rb: app.conf.erb and prod.yml feed into TemplateRenderer, which produces rendered output compared by DriftDetector against the live config file via SHA-256 checksum, resulting in either an in-sync exit 0 or a drift-found exit 3 that triggers ConfigWriter.apply with a timestamped backup

Ruby for DevOps: Config File Templating & Drift Detection with ERB

EducatorJuly 10, 2026DevOps

Part of our Ruby for DevOps series — practical Ruby scripts that solve real system-administration problems. DevOps / System Administration...

Diagram of win_task_manager.rb: CLI options flow into TriggerBuilder.build, which is pure Ruby and validates time and days, then into a Gem.win_platform? guard and TaskSchedulerClient, which wraps win32-taskscheduler and registers the task with the Windows Task Scheduler COM API

Ruby for DevOps: Automating Windows Scheduled Tasks with win32-taskscheduler

EducatorJuly 10, 2026DevOps

Part of our Ruby for DevOps series — practical Ruby scripts that solve real system-administration problems. DevOps / System Administration...

Diagram of ssh_fleet_runner.rb: hosts.yml loaded, fanned out across a bounded thread pool, each host connected via Net::SSH.start, results collected and rescued per-host, then printed as a status table

Ruby for DevOps: Multi-Server SSH Automation with net-ssh

EducatorJuly 10, 2026DevOps

Part of our Ruby for DevOps series — practical Ruby scripts that solve real system-administration problems. DevOps / System Administration...

Claude Skills Tutorial: 7 Workflows for DevOps & Security

EducatorJuly 9, 2026AI DevOps

A practical Claude Skills tutorial for DevOps and security pros: setup, SKILL.md format, and 7 real workflows with example prompts...

Midjourney for DevOps & Security Pros: 7 Workflows

EducatorJuly 7, 2026AI DevOps

A practical Midjourney tutorial for DevOps and security pros: web setup, Style References, the Editor, and 7 real workflows with...