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Guides
Step-by-step guides to patching, migrating, and getting a CIQ product running, and answer-first guides to the questions people type into a search engine or an AI assistant before they pick an operating system, an automation platform, a scheduler, or a Kubernetes engine. The answer guides compare the main options with footnotes to each vendor’s own documentation, and say where a CIQ product fits and where it doesn’t.
Security
How to stay secure when AI finds vulnerabilities faster
Security guideMonthly CVE disclosures doubled between January and August 2026, and a PHP bug first spotted in 2024 became PHP2Shell, a remote code execution flaw. What getting updates out faster takes, and how organizations stay secure.Read the guidePHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619): what it is, how to patch, and what it means for your team
Security guideTwo unauthenticated remote code execution flaws in PHP itself, found with AI-assisted research. Here's how to check whether your hosts are exposed, which fixed packages to install, and how to get ready for the next one.Read the guide
Step by step
Let an AI agent operate your Kubernetes cluster safely with the CIQ Stratum Pro MCP server
GuidePoint Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP client at a cluster with read-only access by default, a service account that cannot read Secrets, and write and destructive tiers you switch on only for the operation.Read the guideSpark to NVL72 with Fuzzball
GuideBuild and tune on a single NVIDIA DGX Spark, then run the same containers, the same workflow definition, and the same deployment process on a GB300 NVL72 rack.Read the guidemigrate2rlc: One Script, Any Distro, Rocky Linux from CIQ
Migration GuideWith one script and a reboot, switch from Enterprise Linux to Rocky Linux from CIQRead the guide
Automation
The best Ansible alternatives
Answers “ansible alternatives”Alternatives to Ansible the tool versus alternatives to Ansible Tower and AAP the platform, and which one most teams actually need.Read the guideThe best AWX alternatives
Answers “awx alternatives”AWX has not shipped a release since July 2024. Ansible Automation Platform, Semaphore UI, Rundeck, Foreman, Jenkins, and Ascender Pro compared on support, price, and whether your job templates come with you.Read the guide
Head-to-head comparisons
One CIQ product next to one alternative, with every claim about the other vendor footnoted to its public documentation.