Steve Ovens

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Steve is a dedicated IT professional and Linux advocate. Prior to joining Red Hat, he spent several years in financial, automotive, and movie industries. Steve currently works for Red Hat as an Architect in the Solutions and Technology Practice. He has certifications ranging from the RHCA (in DevOps), to Ansible, to Containerized Applications and more. He spends a lot of time discussing technology and writing tutorials on various technical subjects with friends, family, and anyone who is interested in listening.
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Authored Content

How to manage your media with Kodi

Get control over your home media content with Kodi media player software.

A guide to packing and preparing for a tech conference

The evolution of package managers

Package managers play an important role in Linux software management. Here's how some of the leading players compare.

Bash tips for everyday at the command line

These hidden features and shortcuts will help you perform some of the most common Bash functions more efficiently.

How to use Ansible to set up system monitoring with Prometheus

In the third part of this Ansible how-to series, learn how to automate system monitoring.

9 Lessons from 25 Years of Linux Kernel development

How to use Ansible to set up a Git server over SSH

Git is the most widely deployed version-control system in the open source community. Part 2 of this series looks at using Ansible to set up Git on your LAN.

How to automate your system administration tasks with Ansible

Sharpen your sysadmin and Linux skills and learn how to set up tooling to simplify administering multiple machines.

Authored Comments

stratus_ss

18 Nov 2020

Cloud control vs local control: What to choose for your home automation

What a well thought out reply. I suppose since I didn't have any prior knowledge I didn't find the learning curve too steep. Particularly when I adopted NodeRED.

I have only recently gotten a Zigbee Home (a Sonoff ZB Hub that I flashed with Tasmota) so 98% of the things I use are still WiFi based and that works quite well for us. We have some problem with WiFi interference during the peak hours of 19:00-21:00 because we are in an apartment building. Overall, I like the direction HA is heading

stratus_ss

16 Nov 2020

Why I use Home Assistant for open source home automation

Thanks I hope that the rest of the series is as well received and meets expectations!