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Guides
Step by step guides to 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, or a scheduler. The answer guides compare every serious option with footnotes to the vendor’s own documentation, and say where a CIQ product fits and where it does not.
Step by step
Spark 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.