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.
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.
Notepad++ is one of the best applications ever made
I’m a big fan of RoyalTS for managing my RDP / SSH access to servers. Keepass for password storage.
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.
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.
