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.
Notepad++ is one of the best applications ever made
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.
Put a dev box in the cloud/Colo whatever run tmux, learn about sync panes, work on multiple hosts at once, …, Profit
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.
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.
I’m a big fan of RoyalTS for managing my RDP / SSH access to servers. Keepass for password storage.
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.
