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How to get regional Azure public IP address ranges
Public Azure cloud IP ranges and service tags could be important thing when working with services and NSGs (Network Security Groups). The list could be downloaded as a JSON file in a ...
In Azure, Jan 12, 2022
How to find the latest Azure deployment template schema API version
Using the latest ARM templates schema API version is important only when provisioning new resources. In general, there is no need to keep up-to-date API version of the already deploye...
In Azure, Nov 17, 2021
Get a list of all Azure regions available
Speaking of Azure regions and locations, most of the times we think of the commercial Azure cloud, since there is Azure Government, which basically represents a completely isolated Az...
In Azure, Nov 15, 2021
Ways to Provision Infrastructure on Azure
Last week I wrote about the different Ways to Provision Infrastructure on AWS, and as you might expected I’m doing another one, but this time it’s all Azure.
In Azure, Nov 01, 2021
Service Endpoints vs Private Links in Azure
Microsoft Azure provides many different options to approach networking, starting from Azure VPN, ExpressRoute, Azure Route Server, NVAs, to name a few. These are more likely to be imp...
In Azure, Oct 10, 2021
7 Ways to Save Money in the Cloud
Cost optimization is just one of the five pillars of Well-Architected Framework, which is identical across the top 3 public cloud provider players. Although, deploying a billing alarm...
In Cloud, Oct 02, 2021
Azure VMs Auto-shutdown
Talking about VMs shutdown operation, we got few ways we could do it in Azure: Stop VMs manually from the Portal. Running the az CLI command, described in How to easily Start, Stop,...
In Azure, Sep 08, 2021
Scale AKS user node pool to 0
In case you missed some of these posts: Create AKS cluster on Azure Start and Stop AKS cluster Configure AKS automatic upgrades
In Azure, Kubernetes, Sep 06, 2021
Schedule Automated Start and Stop for Azure VMs
Scheduling automated start and stop for Azure VMs is almost as good as provisioning and deprovisioning infrastructure on-demand, by using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, like Terr...
In Azure, Sep 04, 2021
Configure AKS automatic upgrades
Regarding to managed Kubernetes services, IMHO Azure provides the best cloud experience, for a couple of reasons. From authentication and authorization standpoint, AKS integrates well...
In Azure, Kubernetes, Sep 01, 2021
Configure Azure CLI automatic upgrades
As part of the Azure CLI series, today we are going to see how we can configure automatic upgrades.
In Azure, Aug 31, 2021
How to stop and start Kubernetes cluster on Azure
In the previous Azure post, we’ve shown how to create an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster via the Azure CLI. Today, we’ll focus on how to stop and start AKS cluster using the of...
In Azure, Kubernetes, Apr 04, 2021
How to create Kubernetes cluster on Azure
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a managed Kubernetes service that helps you to deploy and manage clusters with ease. This post describes the commands in steps required to setup a Ku...
In Azure, Kubernetes, Mar 14, 2021
Push Docker Images to Azure Container Registry using Azure CLI
Azure Container Registry is a private container registry where you can upload and manage your Docker and Open Container Initiative (OCI) images. At the time of writing, the cost of th...
In Azure, Docker, Mar 07, 2021
How to upload files to Azure Cloud Shell
As the name says, Azure Cloud Shell is a browser-accessible shell, which is used for managing Azure resources. It comes with two types of command shells Bash and PowerShell. It also g...
In Azure, Nov 27, 2019
How to easily Start, Stop, Restart or Delete Azure VMs
Managing Azure Virtual Machines through the Portal could be pretty straighforward. But, it requires multiple steps using the GUI. For example, you’ll have to login to the Portal first...
In Azure, Oct 28, 2019
How to reset an Azure VM password
Losing and resetting passwords can be quite frustrating, especially if you are working as an IT guy, who have to reset passwords every day for other employees. The same thing could ha...
In Azure, Oct 26, 2019
How to backup and restore an Azure SQL database using Azure CLI
You cannot think of a SQL Server Administration or any kind of a relational and non-relational database administration without the two magic words: backup and restore. Backing up a da...
In Azure, Oct 17, 2019
How to rename an Azure SQL database using Azure CLI
As a part of an Azure SQL Database administration series, this post will be a follow up from the last one, where i will write about renaming Azure SQL database, which is kind of a com...
In Azure, Oct 14, 2019
How to recover lost admin password for an Azure SQL database using Azure CLI
A very common task that i’m used to as a DevOps engineer working in the cloud, is resetting forgotten or lost passwords for server or database access. Although one of the best practic...
In Azure, Oct 13, 2019
How to buy custom domain name with Azure App Service Domains
Azure App Service Domains let you buy and manage top-level domains directly from the Azure Portal. These domains will be hosted on the Azure DNS Service, that you can easily map to yo...
In Azure, Oct 11, 2019
How to Direct-Upload to Azure Managed Disks
A few days ago, Microsoft announced the preview of direct-upload to Azure Managed Disks. So, there are two ways you could move a VHD to the Azure cloud as a managed disk: Upload the ...
In Azure, Oct 08, 2019
How to restore deleted Azure Storage Blobs
Accidental deletion of files can happen to anyone working either on-premise or in the cloud. As a DevOps engineer who is responsible for managing access permissions to resources, the ...
In Azure, Oct 04, 2019
How to copy from AWS S3 bucket to Azure Blob Storage
When we mention public cloud and devops, we often think of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft’s Azure or Google Cloud Platform. As AWS becomes dominant public cloud leader through the yea...
In Azure, AWS, Oct 03, 2019
Generate SAS token for blobs in Azure storage using Azure CLI
A shared access signature (SAS) provides secure and temporary access to the resources in a storage account. You can configure access to specific objects, as well as permissions and SA...
In Azure, Oct 01, 2019
Manage Azure subscriptions
Azure subscriptions are used for deploying and consuming Azure resources. A single Azure account can have multiple subscriptions, but there are some limitations. You can combine multi...
In Azure, Sep 26, 2019
Install Azure CLI 2.0 on macOS with brew
The Azure CLI is a command-line tool that let you manage the Azure resources from your local terminal. Using the terminal can bring a lot of advantages, like being more efficient and ...
In Azure, Sep 24, 2019
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Scale AKS user node pool to 0
In case you missed some of these posts: Create AKS cluster on Azure Start and Stop AKS cluster Configure AKS automatic upgrades
In Azure, Kubernetes, Sep 06, 2021 Configure AKS automatic upgrades
Regarding to managed Kubernetes services, IMHO Azure provides the best cloud experience, for a couple of reasons. From authentication and authorization standpoint, AKS integrates well...
In Azure, Kubernetes, Sep 01, 2021 Configure Azure CLI automatic upgrades
As part of the Azure CLI series, today we are going to see how we can configure automatic upgrades.
In Azure, Aug 31, 2021 How to stop and start Kubernetes cluster on Azure
In the previous Azure post, we’ve shown how to create an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster via the Azure CLI. Today, we’ll focus on how to stop and start AKS cluster using the of...
In Azure, Kubernetes, Apr 04, 2021 How to create Kubernetes cluster on Azure
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a managed Kubernetes service that helps you to deploy and manage clusters with ease. This post describes the commands in steps required to setup a Ku...
In Azure, Kubernetes, Mar 14, 2021 Push Docker Images to Azure Container Registry using Azure CLI
Azure Container Registry is a private container registry where you can upload and manage your Docker and Open Container Initiative (OCI) images. At the time of writing, the cost of th...
In Azure, Docker, Mar 07, 2021 How to upload files to Azure Cloud Shell
As the name says, Azure Cloud Shell is a browser-accessible shell, which is used for managing Azure resources. It comes with two types of command shells Bash and PowerShell. It also g...
In Azure, Nov 27, 2019 How to easily Start, Stop, Restart or Delete Azure VMs
Managing Azure Virtual Machines through the Portal could be pretty straighforward. But, it requires multiple steps using the GUI. For example, you’ll have to login to the Portal first...
In Azure, Oct 28, 2019 How to reset an Azure VM password
Losing and resetting passwords can be quite frustrating, especially if you are working as an IT guy, who have to reset passwords every day for other employees. The same thing could ha...
In Azure, Oct 26, 2019 How to backup and restore an Azure SQL database using Azure CLI
You cannot think of a SQL Server Administration or any kind of a relational and non-relational database administration without the two magic words: backup and restore. Backing up a da...
In Azure, Oct 17, 2019 How to rename an Azure SQL database using Azure CLI
As a part of an Azure SQL Database administration series, this post will be a follow up from the last one, where i will write about renaming Azure SQL database, which is kind of a com...
In Azure, Oct 14, 2019 How to recover lost admin password for an Azure SQL database using Azure CLI
A very common task that i’m used to as a DevOps engineer working in the cloud, is resetting forgotten or lost passwords for server or database access. Although one of the best practic...
In Azure, Oct 13, 2019 How to Direct-Upload to Azure Managed Disks
A few days ago, Microsoft announced the preview of direct-upload to Azure Managed Disks. So, there are two ways you could move a VHD to the Azure cloud as a managed disk: Upload the ...
In Azure, Oct 08, 2019 Generate SAS token for blobs in Azure storage using Azure CLI
A shared access signature (SAS) provides secure and temporary access to the resources in a storage account. You can configure access to specific objects, as well as permissions and SA...
In Azure, Oct 01, 2019 Manage Azure subscriptions
Azure subscriptions are used for deploying and consuming Azure resources. A single Azure account can have multiple subscriptions, but there are some limitations. You can combine multi...
In Azure, Sep 26, 2019 Install Azure CLI 2.0 on macOS with brew
The Azure CLI is a command-line tool that let you manage the Azure resources from your local terminal. Using the terminal can bring a lot of advantages, like being more efficient and ...
In Azure, Sep 24, 2019 mac
Install Azure CLI 2.0 on macOS with brew
The Azure CLI is a command-line tool that let you manage the Azure resources from your local terminal. Using the terminal can bring a lot of advantages, like being more efficient and ...
In Azure, Sep 24, 2019 git
How to remove empty commits in Git
In the previous tutorial, we’ve learned How to create empty commits in Git. Let’s see how can we remove them as well.
In Git, Aug 27, 2021
How to list and count commits in Git
As part of the Git series, today we are going to see how can we list and count empty and non empty commits.
In Git, Aug 21, 2021
How to create empty commits in Git
As a DevOps engineer, you must have heard at least something about GitOps. GitOps is a set of practices that allows to manage infrastructure and application configurations using Git a...
In Git, Aug 15, 2021
Use Git Lfs with existing Bitbucket Repository
Git LFS allows users to save space by storing binary files in a different location, so in this tutorial I’m going to show you how can you operate and manage your repo with Git LFS.
In Git, Sep 28, 2019
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Use Git Lfs with existing Bitbucket Repository
Git LFS allows users to save space by storing binary files in a different location, so in this tutorial I’m going to show you how can you operate and manage your repo with Git LFS.
In Git, Sep 28, 2019 azure storage
How to restore deleted Azure Storage Blobs
Accidental deletion of files can happen to anyone working either on-premise or in the cloud. As a DevOps engineer who is responsible for managing access permissions to resources, the ...
In Azure, Oct 04, 2019 How to copy from AWS S3 bucket to Azure Blob Storage
When we mention public cloud and devops, we often think of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft’s Azure or Google Cloud Platform. As AWS becomes dominant public cloud leader through the yea...
In Azure, AWS, Oct 03, 2019 Generate SAS token for blobs in Azure storage using Azure CLI
A shared access signature (SAS) provides secure and temporary access to the resources in a storage account. You can configure access to specific objects, as well as permissions and SA...
In Azure, Oct 01, 2019 azure blob
How to restore deleted Azure Storage Blobs
Accidental deletion of files can happen to anyone working either on-premise or in the cloud. As a DevOps engineer who is responsible for managing access permissions to resources, the ...
In Azure, Oct 04, 2019 How to copy from AWS S3 bucket to Azure Blob Storage
When we mention public cloud and devops, we often think of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft’s Azure or Google Cloud Platform. As AWS becomes dominant public cloud leader through the yea...
In Azure, AWS, Oct 03, 2019 Generate SAS token for blobs in Azure storage using Azure CLI
A shared access signature (SAS) provides secure and temporary access to the resources in a storage account. You can configure access to specific objects, as well as permissions and SA...
In Azure, Oct 01, 2019 aws
Create AWS IAM User Login Profile with PGP encrypted password in Terraform
Managing and deploying AWS IAM User Login Profiles in Terraform requires a base-64 encoded PGP public key or a keybase, as stated in the official documentation. But, there is no info ...
In Terraform, Jan 04, 2022
Resolve AWS SSM plugin with name Standard_Stream not found
AWS SSM is a nice feature if you don’t wanna deal with majority of the SSH issues along the way. Today’s topic is all about resolving the:SessionId: devcoops-<some_string>: Plug...
In AWS, Jan 02, 2022
AWS Associate VPC with Private Hosted Zone
Working with multiple AWS accounts can lead to timeouts between the different account services. Behind the VPC peering and the routing table connection, a very important thing is to s...
In AWS, Dec 30, 2021
How to install PHP 7.4 on Amazon Linux 2
Setting up a PHP environment for a PHP-based project on Amazon Linux 2 it’s a straightforward process and it can be achieved in a few steps. This tutorial is aimed to show you the ste...
In PHP, Dec 24, 2021
AWS|How to allow source IP addresses to access specific URL path using an Application Load Balancer
Most likely, if you use ECS as your application orchestration service it will require some basic knowledge to manage Application Load Balancers short ALBs. Essentially managing the ac...
In AWS, Dec 12, 2021
How to resolve AWS Aurora ERROR 3024 (HY000)
If you hold some heavy-load AWS Aurora database tables and you are trying to export some of the tables or import data, there is a big chance to face the following error ERROR 3024 (HY...
In AWS, Aurora, Nov 02, 2021
How to drain an ECS instance
While troubleshooting the ECS cluster you may notice some of the EC2 instances are unhealthy due to some stuck processes. Here I’m going to show how to drain an ECS instance by replic...
In ECS, Oct 29, 2021
Ways to Provision Infrastructure on AWS
Popular as it is, Infrastructure as Code also known as IaC, is a practice and process of managing and deploying infrastructure through code. Now, we got the flexibility to choose from...
In AWS, Oct 28, 2021
Solution: The AWS Access Key Id Does Not Exist in our Records
Working with multiple AWS account profiles could sometimes be not so pleasent experience, especially when handling different AWS named profiles for different purposes. The AWS Access ...
In AWS, Oct 26, 2021
How to install Nomad on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 instance
Working with popular orchestration application services like Kubernetes and ECS is not that easy as it seems when it comes to scaling the app, the deployments, and managing the resour...
In AWS, Nomad, Oct 13, 2021
How to install Terraform on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 instance
There are a lot of tutorials on how to install the latest version of Terraform out there. Most of them are pointing to the terraform official release site, so you need to get the late...
In AWS, Terraform, Oct 11, 2021
How to install Ansible on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 instance
When it comes to AWS hosted infrastructure, if there is a need for managing the instances or the deployments of the application/services you can use the approach of having one EC2 ded...
In AWS, Ansible, Oct 07, 2021
Get AWS Region Name in Terraform
The following tutorial will be a step by step guide on how to get the current AWS region name in Terraform.
In Terraform, AWS, Oct 06, 2021
How to install Nginx on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 instance
Installing Nginx from the Amazon Linux repo will provide you with an exceedingly old Nginx version. Therefore, I will show you how to install it through the EPEL repo which is my pref...
In AWS, Nginx, Oct 05, 2021
How to create an S3 bucket through AWS CloudFormation
Deploying your infrastructure through CloudFormation as an infrastructure as code tool can cause some murky situations as a begginer because AWS is facing a lack of CloudFormation doc...
In CloudFormation, AWS, Oct 03, 2021
7 Ways to Save Money in the Cloud
Cost optimization is just one of the five pillars of Well-Architected Framework, which is identical across the top 3 public cloud provider players. Although, deploying a billing alarm...
In Cloud, Oct 02, 2021 Remmina can't remote into AWS EC2 Windows Machine due to libfreerdp
If you need to access your Windows-based server through your local Linux machine you should consider using some of the RDPs software. A few days ago I needed to access a Microsoft SQL...
In RDP, Oct 01, 2021
How to dump Elasticsearch index to S3 with Docker
Previously I’ve covered the topic around export and import the Elasticsearch index. from one ES cluster to another. So now if you want to back up a particular index, instead of storin...
In Elasticsearch, Sep 21, 2021
How to make local archive_file to be available when deploying Terraform aws_lambda_function
In today’s blog post, I really need to share with you all a quick tip regarding Terraform’s aws_lambda_function resource and how to make the latest local data archive_file to be prese...
In Terraform, Sep 20, 2021
How to get private IP address of Fargate ECS task with metadata
Previously I’ve explained how to ssh into a fargate container. In this tutorial, I will cover some steps on how can you get the private IP address of a fargate ECS container, so that ...
In AWS, Sep 13, 2021
Define the CPU and Memory values for tasks hosted on Fargate
Migrating your ec2 instances on ECS to fargate will let you focus on building applications instead of managing servers. Maybe you will ask yourself, which size do you need to pick up ...
In AWS, Sep 09, 2021
How to remove ECS task definitions
For those who have experience with AWS ECS, we all know how frustrating is sometimes that we just can’t delete task definitions. The only option is to update all task definition revis...
In AWS, Aug 25, 2021
How to install Podman on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 instance
If you are looking for a Docker replacement then Podman is the right choice for you. The installation process is quick and easy. In this tutorial, I’m gonna show you how to install po...
In AWS, Podman, Aug 10, 2021
How to pg_dump to S3 directly
Just before we start with this tutorial, I just wanna say, don’t try this on production. Streaming pg_dump backup directly to S3 bucket is a bad practice to start with, unless you are...
In PostgreSQL, AWS, Jul 29, 2021
How to join EC2 instance to ECS cluster
AWS ECS is a container orchestration tool and it could be a great starting point as a beginner devops engineer before jumping on the Kubernetes hype train. Using an Auto Scaling group...
In AWS, Jul 25, 2021
How to manually change the allocation of shards
While updating the mapping on some of the ES clusters or doing a full reindex which are expensive operations, you may face a data node failure. Due to the node failure, there is a pos...
In Elasticsearch, Jul 13, 2021
How to fix Docker login unknown shorthand flag error
In some of the previous posts I’ve covered the Authorization token method when authenticating to an AWS ECR private registry. If you have followed the steps as described in the post y...
In Docker, AWS, Jul 03, 2021
How to refresh AWS ECR authorization token
AWS ECR is a managed container registry which allows us to store, manage and deploy container images, mostly Docker images. Similar to Docker Hub, ECR supports two types of registries...
In AWS, Jul 01, 2021
How to resolve AWS Elasticsearch cluster in red or yellow state
Understanding the ES cluster status state is crucial, when it comes to ES troubleshooting. If your role is to keep ES cluster healthy then you have to understand all the three states ...
In AWS, Jun 30, 2021
How to list S3 bucket size from the command line
AWS S3 as a service is pretty cheap and probably the most popular one among the rest of the cloud object storage services. S3 is most often used as a database backup storage, log stor...
In AWS, Jun 29, 2021
How to stop all running EC2 instances from the command line
Stopping preproduction, staging environment EC2 instances could be described sometimes as a good practice. In the next few lines, I’ll show you how you can easily stop all running EC2...
In AWS, Jun 27, 2021
SSH into an AWS ECS Fargate managed container
Managing servers from the developers’ side causes difficulties. To avoid such situations AWS offers Fargate, the new compute engine which will manage your ECS cluster depending on you...
In AWS, Jun 22, 2021
How to fix ecs cloudformation template if it's stuck in the rollback state
If your microservices are using ECS services and the deployments are going through CloudFormation, that sometimes can cause weird issues. For example, if there is an application error...
In AWS, Mar 24, 2021
How to upload your local files to your AWS S3 bucket with AWS CLI
There are a lot of reasons for moving your local files into your AWS S3 bucket. Maybe you want to host your static files with S3 or you want to make a backup of your database, etc… In...
In AWS, Oct 15, 2019
How to install AWS CLI and setup multiple named profiles on Ubuntu
AWS CLI is a efficient and powerfull tool cause it enables developers and devops people to have a full control over their AWS cloud services by executing commands on a specified line....
In AWS, Oct 09, 2019
How to copy from AWS S3 bucket to Azure Blob Storage
When we mention public cloud and devops, we often think of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft’s Azure or Google Cloud Platform. As AWS becomes dominant public cloud leader through the yea...
In Azure, AWS, Oct 03, 2019 azcopy
How to copy from AWS S3 bucket to Azure Blob Storage
When we mention public cloud and devops, we often think of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft’s Azure or Google Cloud Platform. As AWS becomes dominant public cloud leader through the yea...
In Azure, AWS, Oct 03, 2019 aws cli
How to fix Docker login unknown shorthand flag error
In some of the previous posts I’ve covered the Authorization token method when authenticating to an AWS ECR private registry. If you have followed the steps as described in the post y...
In Docker, AWS, Jul 03, 2021 How to refresh AWS ECR authorization token
AWS ECR is a managed container registry which allows us to store, manage and deploy container images, mostly Docker images. Similar to Docker Hub, ECR supports two types of registries...
In AWS, Jul 01, 2021 How to list S3 bucket size from the command line
AWS S3 as a service is pretty cheap and probably the most popular one among the rest of the cloud object storage services. S3 is most often used as a database backup storage, log stor...
In AWS, Jun 29, 2021 How to stop all running EC2 instances from the command line
Stopping preproduction, staging environment EC2 instances could be described sometimes as a good practice. In the next few lines, I’ll show you how you can easily stop all running EC2...
In AWS, Jun 27, 2021 How to upload your local files to your AWS S3 bucket with AWS CLI
There are a lot of reasons for moving your local files into your AWS S3 bucket. Maybe you want to host your static files with S3 or you want to make a backup of your database, etc… In...
In AWS, Oct 15, 2019 How to install AWS CLI and setup multiple named profiles on Ubuntu
AWS CLI is a efficient and powerfull tool cause it enables developers and devops people to have a full control over their AWS cloud services by executing commands on a specified line....
In AWS, Oct 09, 2019 linux
How to enable HTTP/2 in Nginx
HTTP/2 was published almost 7 years ago, HTTP/3 being an internet draft standard since October 2020, and yet here we are, most of us still using HTTP/1.1. Considering how things quick...
In Nginx, Jan 18, 2022
How to increase the open files limit in Linux
The default open files (nofile) limit is 1024. Let’s see how we could confirm and increase it on user and system-wide level.
In Linux, Jan 16, 2022
SFTP transfer files through command line non-interactive
This tutorial is aimed to show you how to download files from a remote sftp server and of course how to upload files to a remote sftp server. It’s useful if you are writing a bash or ...
In SFTP, Jan 13, 2022
How to connect with SFTP through command line
Most of the shared hosting platforms are providing sftp access to the end-users as a secure file transfer protocol. There are a lot of free and open source GUI platforms for ftp, sftp...
In SFTP, Jan 11, 2022
Send Slack notifications from a Bash script
Slack is one of the most popular and used messaging apps by companies of any kind of business size, from small companies and startups to large enterprises. From DevOps point of view, ...
In Linux, Jan 06, 2022
How to list, renew and delete Certbot certificates
Managing certbot certificates is often a underlooked operation since Certbot handles cert renewal automatically using a cronjob, so no worries there. But, what if we want to list whic...
In Certbot, Dec 03, 2021
How to download files with curl
curl and wget are the most popular command-line tools (with curl being a library) for downloading remote content from the CLI. On one side, wget is simple to use as it gets, downloadi...
In Linux, Dec 01, 2021
How to generate random password from the CLI
There are a lot of ways to generate random passwords, starting from simple password generator sites found online to the most advanced password management solutions. Today’s topic will...
In Linux, Nov 27, 2021
How to install Certbot on Amazon Linux 2
Using the AWS amazon linux 2 template for your EC2 instance is always a preferred way as an AWS-optimized and proprietary template. So if your web application requires an SSL certific...
In Certbot, Nov 26, 2021
File locking with flock 101
As a concept, file locking in Linux purpose is to control access to a shared resource between multiple processes, in a way to indicate which process is next in line so it could use th...
In Linux, Nov 25, 2021
mtime timestamp and the 24h period cheatsheet
For those who might be questioning, mtime or short for modified timestamp, is a Linux file timestamp which usually goes hand in hand with the find command in the most common scenarios...
In Linux, Nov 23, 2021
Which shell am I using - how to check
Linux comes with support for multiple flavors of shell, including bash, zsh, ksh, csh, and so on. This time I’ll be focusing on how to find out which shell you are using, which is the...
In Linux, Nov 21, 2021
How to reload shell session
In order to update and see changes made in the shell environment, most of the time a reload is required. So, instead of restarting the machine and wasting a lot of time, a simple comm...
In Linux, Nov 19, 2021
How to export and import all MySQL databases at once
Working with microservices will ramp up the number of MySQL databases. So if you need to create a backup for all of them at once there is a way to do it through the cli. Also importin...
In MySQL, Nov 12, 2021
How to change permissions for Directories and Files recursively
Getting to know how to fix the directories and files permissions recursively, with a quick and easy method is always a good point. The crux of this tutorial is to understand how you c...
In Linux, Oct 25, 2021
Setup Nginx Proxy for Node.js app
Behind every major player in the cloud provider’s field, there is a hidden “magic” that makes our applications work. Most of the time, this magic is some kind of a proxy, mostly Nginx...
In Nginx, Oct 22, 2021
Resolve (code=exited, status=2) in Nginx
Sometimes after nginx service restart and you’re trying to get the service status, you might get the following status code line:Process: 10316 ExecStop=/sbin/start-stop-daemon --quiet...
In Linux, Oct 20, 2021
Check Internet Speed from CLI on Linux
In this day and age, experiencing a slow internet connection could be a huge deal, especially for most of us who work remotely. Since we can do almost anything from the CLI, let’s sav...
In Linux, Oct 18, 2021
Get Public IP from CLI on Linux
Let’s speedrun the tutorial on how to get your public IP address from the command line interface for any whitelisting reason, on any Linux distro.
In Linux, Oct 16, 2021
How to install Terraform on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 instance
There are a lot of tutorials on how to install the latest version of Terraform out there. Most of them are pointing to the terraform official release site, so you need to get the late...
In AWS, Terraform, Oct 11, 2021 How to detect and free Inode Usage on Linux
While I was maintaining a monitoring service for an AWS-based infrastructure the service daemon stopped working. After some digging on the host where the service was hosted, I find ou...
In Linux, Oct 09, 2021
How to install Ansible on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 instance
When it comes to AWS hosted infrastructure, if there is a need for managing the instances or the deployments of the application/services you can use the approach of having one EC2 ded...
In AWS, Ansible, Oct 07, 2021 How to install Nginx on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 instance
Installing Nginx from the Amazon Linux repo will provide you with an exceedingly old Nginx version. Therefore, I will show you how to install it through the EPEL repo which is my pref...
In AWS, Nginx, Oct 05, 2021 Prevent Accidental rm -rf /*
We’ve all heard the infamous rm -rf /* command. Now, let’s see how can we prevent from happening many times again.
In Linux, Sep 30, 2021
Count Files within Directory in Linux
Sometimes, for some reason we need to pull up the number of files in a certain directory. As always, this could be done in a couple of ways. Let’s go through each of them.
In Linux, Sep 28, 2021
Run Linux Bash Commands in Background
If one thing can be annoying while working on remote terminals on daily basis, that would be waiting for a command to finish. Wasting time on waiting commands to finish is resolvable ...
In Linux, Sep 26, 2021
How to setup Envoy proxy
Envoy is a minimalistic L7 proxy designed to be used along with the cloud native microservice applications. It’s an open-source container based project which can run on a minimum syst...
In Envoy, Sep 25, 2021
Remove Last N Characters of a String in Bash
As with most things in IT, there is always more then one way to skin a cat. In today’s blog post, we are gonna test out few ways on how we could remove last n characters of a string. ...
In Linux, Sep 24, 2021
How to create Apache reverse proxy for your application
Creating Apache reverse proxy follows a similar procedure as Nginx. In some of the previous posts, we saw how to set up Nginx reverse proxy, so today I’m going to show you exactly the...
In Apache, Sep 23, 2021
Protect files from being deleted in Linux
I’m gonna start by saying we have all heard of these sudo rm -rf / horror stories on the Internet. There are a bunch of ways we could protect our servers from such accidents, which mi...
In Linux, Sep 22, 2021
How to search for a string in multiple files on Linux
These days there are a lot of code editors which can ease your life in terms of finding some particular string in multiple files or repo. The life will get complicated if you need to ...
In Linux, Sep 19, 2021
Convert Linux commands output from CSV to JSON
CSV to JSON conversion is commonly used in the Monitoring part of the DevOps cycle, usually when we need to gather some data, parse it, and ship it via some monitoring agent, like flu...
In Linux, Sep 18, 2021
How to install Docker Compose on Debian 11
We previously saw how to install Docker on Debian 11. As a sequel, I’m going to round it off with the docker compose installation on Debian 11.
In Docker, Sep 15, 2021
How to check if your web application is under DDoS attack
Nowadays, most of the web applications are vulnerable and exposed on many different kinds of attacks. One of them is a DDoS attack. There are a lot of services on the internet that ar...
In DDOS, Sep 11, 2021
How to enable CORS in Nginx
If you are trying to make API calls and you are getting the following error from nginx No Access-Control-Allow-Origin header is present on the requested resource you should definitely...
In Nginx, Sep 07, 2021
How to list processes that are taking a lot of memory in Linux
There are situations where your web application or particular software installed on your machine takes a lot of time to load. The troubleshooting process may last long but however, yo...
In Linux, Sep 05, 2021
How to check if command succeeded in Linux
As a DevOps engineer, or any other Operation roles, we sometimes need to check if a linux command succeeded. There are many reasons, for example: our internet connection failed, a VPN...
In Linux, Aug 29, 2021
How to install Nginx on Debian 11
Installing Nginx on Debian 11 is pretty easy and straightforward. This tutorial will show you how to install it and enable HTTP traffic on your debian server.
In Nginx, Aug 22, 2021
How to install MongoDB on Rocky Linux 8
MongoDB has an attitude to store the data in BSON, which can be searched and indexed, with a way better performance. Installing MongoDB on rocky linux can additionally improve the sea...
In MongoDB, Aug 20, 2021
How to install Docker on Debian 11
Finally Debian 11 is released on August 14th, 2021, and this version is marked as a stable version. This tutorial will show you the steps on how to install Docker on a new fresh Debi...
In Docker, Aug 18, 2021
Missing sites-available directory in Nginx
As part of the Nginx series, in today’s tutorial, we are going to see on how to add that missing sites-available subdirectory. The reason behind this, is because most of us have been ...
In Nginx, Aug 17, 2021
How to disable SELinux
You may face Nginx or Apache web server blocking issues even when your firewall is disabled. SELinux is a security engine that may block some of the calls or permissions on your serve...
In Linux, Aug 16, 2021
How to set up Nginx reverse proxy for your application
Using Nginx reverse proxy could be very useful, especially if you are developing an application with a framework that can run its own server like nodejs, python, ruby on rails, etc… I...
In Nginx, Aug 14, 2021
How to block visitors by country in Nginx
In some of mine previous posts, I wrote about how you can whitelist IPs in Nginx. In today’s tutorial, we are going to see how can we block specific countries in a few steps.
In Nginx, Aug 13, 2021
How to install Podman on Ubuntu 20.04
If you try to install Podman on Ubuntu 20.04 with the default Ubuntu packages, the installation will fail with the following error: E: Unable to locate package podman. In this tutoria...
In Ubuntu, Podman, Aug 12, 2021
How to install Podman on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 instance
If you are looking for a Docker replacement then Podman is the right choice for you. The installation process is quick and easy. In this tutorial, I’m gonna show you how to install po...
In AWS, Podman, Aug 10, 2021 How to whitelist IPs in Nginx
We all know what firewalls are for, but sometimes they can become a pain in the arse, and we all end up opening HTTP and HTTPS port by default. Let’s say we host multiple domains via ...
In Nginx, Aug 09, 2021
How to secure Apache with Let's Encrypt on Rocky Linux 8
As a part of the certbot installation in this tutorial, you will see how to secure your Apache web server with a free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate. Let’s start.
In Apache, Aug 08, 2021
How to secure Nginx with Let's Encrypt on Rocky Linux 8
Previously we saw how to install Certbot on Rocky Linux 8 depending on your web server, whether it’s Nginx or Apache. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to secure your Nginx ...
In Nginx, Aug 06, 2021
How to install Certbot on Rocky Linux 8
Installing certbot on your rocky linux server/machine is usually meant to be used to switch an existing HTTP site to work in HTTPS. It’s a helpful tool written in python which helps y...
In Certbot, Aug 05, 2021
How to install PostgreSQL on Rocky Linux 8
Installing PostgreSQL on Rocky Linux follows the same procedure as MySQL. We need to enable the PostgreSQL module, install the desired version and enable the PostgreSQL service. Follo...
In PostgreSQL, Aug 01, 2021
How to install MySQL on Rocky Linux 8
Installing MySQL on Rocky Linux it’s quite easy and quick. A lot of today’s applications are using MySQL as a web database. MySQL is an open source database and offers a lot of features.
In MySQL, Jul 30, 2021
How to determine the correct number of max children processes for PHP-FPM
Most of the PHP developers are using Nginx with php-fpm as the most efficient approach. Most likely nginx will throw php errors, that the server reached the pm.max_children number. It...
In PHP, Jul 28, 2021
How to configure DHCP to fix the network connectivity on Rocky Linux
Some of the RHEL distros can cause common networking configuration issues on the first installation, so you will not be able to update the packages on a server or browse external Webs...
In Rocky Linux, Jul 26, 2021
How to install Apache on Rocky Linux 8
Apache is one of the most popular, open source web servers that allows you to host your web content on internet. Apache can be installed easily and can run on any operating system. In...
In Apache, Jul 24, 2021
How to install Nginx on Rocky Linux 8
If you need to implement a reverse proxy, load balancer or mail proxy, Nginx is the best-suited web server that can manage all of these actions. This tutorial will explain, how to ins...
In Nginx, Jul 20, 2021
How to install Redis on Rocky Linux 8
If you are seeking a caching solution for your application then Redis will appear on the list. Here we will show you how to install Redis on Rocky Linux which is a replacement for Cen...
In Redis, Jul 17, 2021
How to install Docker Compose on ARM64
In some of the previous posts I’ve covered how you can install docker-compose on Linux distributions like Rocky Linux for example. It’s pretty easy to set it up, right?! Usually when ...
In Docker, Jul 12, 2021
How to install Ansible on Rocky Linux 8
If there is a need to simplify the deployments of your applications, manage your infrastructure servers, etc.. you can achieve it with ansible which is one of the most popular tool fo...
In Ansible, Jul 11, 2021
How to install Docker Compose on Rocky Linux 8
Installing Docker Compose on Rocky Linux follows the same procedure as the other Linux distros. Firstly, you need to make sure that you have installed Docker on your Rocky Linux machine.
In Docker, Jul 06, 2021
How to install Docker on Rocky Linux 8
In the early December last year, RedHat took us all by suprise with the CentOS 8 End Of Life (EOL) announcement, that was scheduled for the end of 2021. In response to this, the origi...
In Docker, Jul 05, 2021
How to install Terraform on Rocky Linux
Finally, there is a replacement on the CentOS distro. The fresh and new Rocky Linux will replace the Centos, so the Centos team announces that they are going to focus on the CentOS St...
In Terraform, Jul 02, 2021
How to install Terraform CLI on Ubuntu 20.04
All the cloud service providers have integrated and ease the way of using Terraform. So using terraform as infrastructure as code tool will efficiently minimize your code and speed up...
In Terraform, Jun 25, 2021
How to install Ansible on Ubuntu
Ansible is an IT automation tool that can help you to simplify the deployments of your applications, efficiently manage your infrastructure servers, and provides a lot of features and...
In Ansible, Ubuntu, Jun 06, 2021
How to install Docker Compose on Ubuntu 19.04
Installing docker compose on Ubuntu 19.04 will get some benefits in terms of the procedure of starting multiple docker containers, creating volumes, etc… But before installing docker ...
In Docker, Dec 15, 2019
How to install docker on Ubuntu 19.04
Following the steps below will let you realize that installing docker on Ubuntu 19.04 is not that hard as it seems, so let’s see how you can do it.
In Docker, Dec 13, 2019
How to upload your local files to your AWS S3 bucket with AWS CLI
There are a lot of reasons for moving your local files into your AWS S3 bucket. Maybe you want to host your static files with S3 or you want to make a backup of your database, etc… In...
In AWS, Oct 15, 2019 How to install AWS CLI and setup multiple named profiles on Ubuntu
AWS CLI is a efficient and powerfull tool cause it enables developers and devops people to have a full control over their AWS cloud services by executing commands on a specified line....
In AWS, Oct 09, 2019 bash
Send Slack notifications from a Bash script
Slack is one of the most popular and used messaging apps by companies of any kind of business size, from small companies and startups to large enterprises. From DevOps point of view, ...
In Linux, Jan 06, 2022 How to download files with curl
curl and wget are the most popular command-line tools (with curl being a library) for downloading remote content from the CLI. On one side, wget is simple to use as it gets, downloadi...
In Linux, Dec 01, 2021 How to generate random password from the CLI
There are a lot of ways to generate random passwords, starting from simple password generator sites found online to the most advanced password management solutions. Today’s topic will...
In Linux, Nov 27, 2021 Which shell am I using - how to check
Linux comes with support for multiple flavors of shell, including bash, zsh, ksh, csh, and so on. This time I’ll be focusing on how to find out which shell you are using, which is the...
In Linux, Nov 21, 2021 How to reload shell session
In order to update and see changes made in the shell environment, most of the time a reload is required. So, instead of restarting the machine and wasting a lot of time, a simple comm...
In Linux, Nov 19, 2021 Resolve (code=exited, status=2) in Nginx
Sometimes after nginx service restart and you’re trying to get the service status, you might get the following status code line:Process: 10316 ExecStop=/sbin/start-stop-daemon --quiet...
In Linux, Oct 20, 2021 Check Internet Speed from CLI on Linux
In this day and age, experiencing a slow internet connection could be a huge deal, especially for most of us who work remotely. Since we can do almost anything from the CLI, let’s sav...
In Linux, Oct 18, 2021 Get Public IP from CLI on Linux
Let’s speedrun the tutorial on how to get your public IP address from the command line interface for any whitelisting reason, on any Linux distro.
In Linux, Oct 16, 2021 How to install Terraform on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 instance
There are a lot of tutorials on how to install the latest version of Terraform out there. Most of them are pointing to the terraform official release site, so you need to get the late...
In AWS, Terraform, Oct 11, 2021 How to install Ansible on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 instance
When it comes to AWS hosted infrastructure, if there is a need for managing the instances or the deployments of the application/services you can use the approach of having one EC2 ded...
In AWS, Ansible, Oct 07, 2021 How to install Nginx on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 instance
Installing Nginx from the Amazon Linux repo will provide you with an exceedingly old Nginx version. Therefore, I will show you how to install it through the EPEL repo which is my pref...
In AWS, Nginx, Oct 05, 2021 Prevent Accidental rm -rf /*
We’ve all heard the infamous rm -rf /* command. Now, let’s see how can we prevent from happening many times again.
In Linux, Sep 30, 2021 Count Files within Directory in Linux
Sometimes, for some reason we need to pull up the number of files in a certain directory. As always, this could be done in a couple of ways. Let’s go through each of them.
In Linux, Sep 28, 2021 Run Linux Bash Commands in Background
If one thing can be annoying while working on remote terminals on daily basis, that would be waiting for a command to finish. Wasting time on waiting commands to finish is resolvable ...
In Linux, Sep 26, 2021 Remove Last N Characters of a String in Bash
As with most things in IT, there is always more then one way to skin a cat. In today’s blog post, we are gonna test out few ways on how we could remove last n characters of a string. ...
In Linux, Sep 24, 2021 Protect files from being deleted in Linux
I’m gonna start by saying we have all heard of these sudo rm -rf / horror stories on the Internet. There are a bunch of ways we could protect our servers from such accidents, which mi...
In Linux, Sep 22, 2021 How to search for a string in multiple files on Linux
These days there are a lot of code editors which can ease your life in terms of finding some particular string in multiple files or repo. The life will get complicated if you need to ...
In Linux, Sep 19, 2021 Convert Linux commands output from CSV to JSON
CSV to JSON conversion is commonly used in the Monitoring part of the DevOps cycle, usually when we need to gather some data, parse it, and ship it via some monitoring agent, like flu...
In Linux, Sep 18, 2021 How to install Docker Compose on Debian 11
We previously saw how to install Docker on Debian 11. As a sequel, I’m going to round it off with the docker compose installation on Debian 11.
In Docker, Sep 15, 2021 How to check if your web application is under DDoS attack
Nowadays, most of the web applications are vulnerable and exposed on many different kinds of attacks. One of them is a DDoS attack. There are a lot of services on the internet that ar...
In DDOS, Sep 11, 2021 How to enable CORS in Nginx
If you are trying to make API calls and you are getting the following error from nginx No Access-Control-Allow-Origin header is present on the requested resource you should definitely...
In Nginx, Sep 07, 2021 How to list processes that are taking a lot of memory in Linux
There are situations where your web application or particular software installed on your machine takes a lot of time to load. The troubleshooting process may last long but however, yo...
In Linux, Sep 05, 2021 How to check if command succeeded in Linux
As a DevOps engineer, or any other Operation roles, we sometimes need to check if a linux command succeeded. There are many reasons, for example: our internet connection failed, a VPN...
In Linux, Aug 29, 2021 How to install Nginx on Debian 11
Installing Nginx on Debian 11 is pretty easy and straightforward. This tutorial will show you how to install it and enable HTTP traffic on your debian server.
In Nginx, Aug 22, 2021 How to install MongoDB on Rocky Linux 8
MongoDB has an attitude to store the data in BSON, which can be searched and indexed, with a way better performance. Installing MongoDB on rocky linux can additionally improve the sea...
In MongoDB, Aug 20, 2021 How to install Docker on Debian 11
Finally Debian 11 is released on August 14th, 2021, and this version is marked as a stable version. This tutorial will show you the steps on how to install Docker on a new fresh Debi...
In Docker, Aug 18, 2021 Missing sites-available directory in Nginx
As part of the Nginx series, in today’s tutorial, we are going to see on how to add that missing sites-available subdirectory. The reason behind this, is because most of us have been ...
In Nginx, Aug 17, 2021 How to disable SELinux
You may face Nginx or Apache web server blocking issues even when your firewall is disabled. SELinux is a security engine that may block some of the calls or permissions on your serve...
In Linux, Aug 16, 2021 How to block visitors by country in Nginx
In some of mine previous posts, I wrote about how you can whitelist IPs in Nginx. In today’s tutorial, we are going to see how can we block specific countries in a few steps.
In Nginx, Aug 13, 2021 How to install Podman on Ubuntu 20.04
If you try to install Podman on Ubuntu 20.04 with the default Ubuntu packages, the installation will fail with the following error: E: Unable to locate package podman. In this tutoria...
In Ubuntu, Podman, Aug 12, 2021 How to install Podman on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 instance
If you are looking for a Docker replacement then Podman is the right choice for you. The installation process is quick and easy. In this tutorial, I’m gonna show you how to install po...
In AWS, Podman, Aug 10, 2021 How to whitelist IPs in Nginx
We all know what firewalls are for, but sometimes they can become a pain in the arse, and we all end up opening HTTP and HTTPS port by default. Let’s say we host multiple domains via ...
In Nginx, Aug 09, 2021 How to secure Apache with Let's Encrypt on Rocky Linux 8
As a part of the certbot installation in this tutorial, you will see how to secure your Apache web server with a free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate. Let’s start.
In Apache, Aug 08, 2021 How to secure Nginx with Let's Encrypt on Rocky Linux 8
Previously we saw how to install Certbot on Rocky Linux 8 depending on your web server, whether it’s Nginx or Apache. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to secure your Nginx ...
In Nginx, Aug 06, 2021 How to install Certbot on Rocky Linux 8
Installing certbot on your rocky linux server/machine is usually meant to be used to switch an existing HTTP site to work in HTTPS. It’s a helpful tool written in python which helps y...
In Certbot, Aug 05, 2021 How to install PostgreSQL on Rocky Linux 8
Installing PostgreSQL on Rocky Linux follows the same procedure as MySQL. We need to enable the PostgreSQL module, install the desired version and enable the PostgreSQL service. Follo...
In PostgreSQL, Aug 01, 2021 How to install MySQL on Rocky Linux 8
Installing MySQL on Rocky Linux it’s quite easy and quick. A lot of today’s applications are using MySQL as a web database. MySQL is an open source database and offers a lot of features.
In MySQL, Jul 30, 2021 How to determine the correct number of max children processes for PHP-FPM
Most of the PHP developers are using Nginx with php-fpm as the most efficient approach. Most likely nginx will throw php errors, that the server reached the pm.max_children number. It...
In PHP, Jul 28, 2021 How to configure DHCP to fix the network connectivity on Rocky Linux
Some of the RHEL distros can cause common networking configuration issues on the first installation, so you will not be able to update the packages on a server or browse external Webs...
In Rocky Linux, Jul 26, 2021 How to install Apache on Rocky Linux 8
Apache is one of the most popular, open source web servers that allows you to host your web content on internet. Apache can be installed easily and can run on any operating system. In...
In Apache, Jul 24, 2021 How to install Nginx on Rocky Linux 8
If you need to implement a reverse proxy, load balancer or mail proxy, Nginx is the best-suited web server that can manage all of these actions. This tutorial will explain, how to ins...
In Nginx, Jul 20, 2021 How to install Redis on Rocky Linux 8
If you are seeking a caching solution for your application then Redis will appear on the list. Here we will show you how to install Redis on Rocky Linux which is a replacement for Cen...
In Redis, Jul 17, 2021 How to install Docker Compose on ARM64
In some of the previous posts I’ve covered how you can install docker-compose on Linux distributions like Rocky Linux for example. It’s pretty easy to set it up, right?! Usually when ...
In Docker, Jul 12, 2021 How to install Ansible on Rocky Linux 8
If there is a need to simplify the deployments of your applications, manage your infrastructure servers, etc.. you can achieve it with ansible which is one of the most popular tool fo...
In Ansible, Jul 11, 2021 How to copy files/folders to and from Docker Containers
There are situations when you need to copy files/folders from the container’s file system to the local machine or the reverse. You can achive that with Docker copy command. In this tu...
In Docker, Jul 08, 2021
How to install Docker Compose on Rocky Linux 8
Installing Docker Compose on Rocky Linux follows the same procedure as the other Linux distros. Firstly, you need to make sure that you have installed Docker on your Rocky Linux machine.
In Docker, Jul 06, 2021 How to install Docker on Rocky Linux 8
In the early December last year, RedHat took us all by suprise with the CentOS 8 End Of Life (EOL) announcement, that was scheduled for the end of 2021. In response to this, the origi...
In Docker, Jul 05, 2021 How to install Terraform on Rocky Linux
Finally, there is a replacement on the CentOS distro. The fresh and new Rocky Linux will replace the Centos, so the Centos team announces that they are going to focus on the CentOS St...
In Terraform, Jul 02, 2021 How to install Terraform CLI on Ubuntu 20.04
All the cloud service providers have integrated and ease the way of using Terraform. So using terraform as infrastructure as code tool will efficiently minimize your code and speed up...
In Terraform, Jun 25, 2021 How to install Ansible on Ubuntu
Ansible is an IT automation tool that can help you to simplify the deployments of your applications, efficiently manage your infrastructure servers, and provides a lot of features and...
In Ansible, Ubuntu, Jun 06, 2021 How to install Docker Compose on Ubuntu 19.04
Installing docker compose on Ubuntu 19.04 will get some benefits in terms of the procedure of starting multiple docker containers, creating volumes, etc… But before installing docker ...
In Docker, Dec 15, 2019 How to install docker on Ubuntu 19.04
Following the steps below will let you realize that installing docker on Ubuntu 19.04 is not that hard as it seems, so let’s see how you can do it.
In Docker, Dec 13, 2019 How to upload your local files to your AWS S3 bucket with AWS CLI
There are a lot of reasons for moving your local files into your AWS S3 bucket. Maybe you want to host your static files with S3 or you want to make a backup of your database, etc… In...
In AWS, Oct 15, 2019 How to install AWS CLI and setup multiple named profiles on Ubuntu
AWS CLI is a efficient and powerfull tool cause it enables developers and devops people to have a full control over their AWS cloud services by executing commands on a specified line....
In AWS, Oct 09, 2019 azure sql database
How to backup and restore an Azure SQL database using Azure CLI
You cannot think of a SQL Server Administration or any kind of a relational and non-relational database administration without the two magic words: backup and restore. Backing up a da...
In Azure, Oct 17, 2019 How to rename an Azure SQL database using Azure CLI
As a part of an Azure SQL Database administration series, this post will be a follow up from the last one, where i will write about renaming Azure SQL database, which is kind of a com...
In Azure, Oct 14, 2019 How to recover lost admin password for an Azure SQL database using Azure CLI
A very common task that i’m used to as a DevOps engineer working in the cloud, is resetting forgotten or lost passwords for server or database access. Although one of the best practic...
In Azure, Oct 13, 2019 cloud
5 Ways to Protect Root Account in the Cloud
Security as one of the Five Pillars of the Well-Architected Framework has been underlooked, not just in the age of the cloud computing but before that as well. With cloud migration be...
In Cloud, Oct 12, 2021
7 Ways to Save Money in the Cloud
Cost optimization is just one of the five pillars of Well-Architected Framework, which is identical across the top 3 public cloud provider players. Although, deploying a billing alarm...
In Cloud, Oct 02, 2021 How to upload your local files to your AWS S3 bucket with AWS CLI
There are a lot of reasons for moving your local files into your AWS S3 bucket. Maybe you want to host your static files with S3 or you want to make a backup of your database, etc… In...
In AWS, Oct 15, 2019 azure vm
Azure VMs Auto-shutdown
Talking about VMs shutdown operation, we got few ways we could do it in Azure: Stop VMs manually from the Portal. Running the az CLI command, described in How to easily Start, Stop,...
In Azure, Sep 08, 2021 Schedule Automated Start and Stop for Azure VMs
Scheduling automated start and stop for Azure VMs is almost as good as provisioning and deprovisioning infrastructure on-demand, by using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, like Terr...
In Azure, Sep 04, 2021 How to easily Start, Stop, Restart or Delete Azure VMs
Managing Azure Virtual Machines through the Portal could be pretty straighforward. But, it requires multiple steps using the GUI. For example, you’ll have to login to the Portal first...
In Azure, Oct 28, 2019 How to reset an Azure VM password
Losing and resetting passwords can be quite frustrating, especially if you are working as an IT guy, who have to reset passwords every day for other employees. The same thing could ha...
In Azure, Oct 26, 2019 docker
How to restart a single container with docker-compose
Restarting docker-compose stack (docker-compose restart) it’s pretty easy and convinient, and if you somehow screw up something, docker-compose down/up will take care of it. But, now ...
In Docker, Jan 22, 2022
Docker Container run in background
While running a docker container in detached mode d maybe you have experienced exiting the container immediately. Here I’m going to show you some ways how to keep it running in the ba...
In Docker, Jan 21, 2022
How to scale docker containers
When it comes working with an master - replica services docker offers a scaling compose command which is very useful. Here I’m going to show you how to use it with an example.
In Docker, Jan 17, 2022
Docker vs Podman
2022 might be the year of DevOps alternatives, including cloud providers, CI/CD tools and even containers. Speaking of containers, Podman looks like a promising alternative to Docker....
In Docker, Podman, Jan 14, 2022
Add jq and curl on Alpine Docker image
The official Alpine Docker Image doesn’t contain jq and curl by default. If you need to parse some JSON content or perform some curl checks, you can add them in the Dockerfile that is...
In Docker, Jan 05, 2022
Install Docker on Windows 11 without Docker Desktop
As with Windows 10, let’s see how we could install Docker on Windows 11 without GUI.
In Docker, Dec 27, 2021
Docker as an alias for Podman
There is a quick hack to get started with Podman if you are not familiar with the syntax though.
In Podman, Dec 23, 2021
Scan Docker Images for Apache Log4j2 vulnerability
Docker Hub already announced public Log4jShell detection which is now live on Docker Official Images. But for those of you who are still using some of the old or custom images, there ...
In Docker, Dec 20, 2021
Install Docker on Windows 10 without Docker Desktop
In today’s topic I’m gonna cover on how to install and run Docker on Windows 10 without Docker Desktop. This means we’ll be using WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux).
In Docker, Dec 13, 2021
Access host network from inside of a Docker container
This might be a really weird or edge case scenario, but what If we need to access host service(s) from inside a Docker container. For instance, we already have configured and running ...
In Docker, Dec 11, 2021
Expose vs Publish ports in Docker
The general idea for communication between microservices (whatever is HTTP, message or event-driven communication) is related to certain protocols and ports on which each microservice...
In Docker, Dec 07, 2021
How to install PHP composer within Dockerfile
Dockerizing your PHP application probably would require some external commands within your base docker image. That’s why you will need to have a Dockerfile and put all the additional ...
In Docker, Dec 04, 2021
How to fix Docker can't start service network not found
If you have already created a docker-compose stack and you are trying to restart the containers or start them you may face Docker error: Cannot start service ..: network $network-id n...
In Docker, Nov 18, 2021
Assign Static IP to a Docker Container
There are two types of static IPs, public and private IP addresses. We all know the public IP Docker mapping by now, using Nginx and port mapping. Today we are going to see how can we...
In Docker, Oct 24, 2021
How to dump Elasticsearch index to S3 with Docker
Previously I’ve covered the topic around export and import the Elasticsearch index. from one ES cluster to another. So now if you want to back up a particular index, instead of storin...
In Elasticsearch, Sep 21, 2021 How to export and import Elasticsearch Index with Docker
Synchronizing the ES index data between your prod, dev and local ES cluster environment is now achievable with docker. Moving the index data, mapping or analyzer can be done through t...
In Elasticsearch, Sep 17, 2021
How to install Docker Compose on Debian 11
We previously saw how to install Docker on Debian 11. As a sequel, I’m going to round it off with the docker compose installation on Debian 11.
In Docker, Sep 15, 2021 Filter the output of docker image ls
Sometimes using the filter flag as a part of the docker image ls command can be useful to figure out which images are taking space, which are dangling images or unused. In this tutori...
In Docker, Aug 26, 2021
How to search Docker Hub repositories from CLI
If you want to search for a specific docker image on Docker Hub there is a way to do this from the CLI. The docker search command will allow you to search Docker Hub from the CLI. It ...
In Docker, Aug 24, 2021
Docker Registry vs Docker Repository
Docker is one of that technologies that will probably stay for a while. In a matter of years, the IT world went from monolith to deploying applications on the edge in a couple of seco...
In Docker, Aug 23, 2021
How to install Docker on Debian 11
Finally Debian 11 is released on August 14th, 2021, and this version is marked as a stable version. This tutorial will show you the steps on how to install Docker on a new fresh Debi...
In Docker, Aug 18, 2021 Clean up Docker space for Jenkins jobs
Managing and deploying complex infrastructure with Jenkins sometimes can cause job failure issues. For example, if you are working with microservices and all the deployments are going...
In Docker, Jenkins, Jul 15, 2021
How to install Docker Compose on ARM64
In some of the previous posts I’ve covered how you can install docker-compose on Linux distributions like Rocky Linux for example. It’s pretty easy to set it up, right?! Usually when ...
In Docker, Jul 12, 2021 How to copy files/folders to and from Docker Containers
There are situations when you need to copy files/folders from the container’s file system to the local machine or the reverse. You can achive that with Docker copy command. In this tu...
In Docker, Jul 08, 2021 How to install Docker Compose on Rocky Linux 8
Installing Docker Compose on Rocky Linux follows the same procedure as the other Linux distros. Firstly, you need to make sure that you have installed Docker on your Rocky Linux machine.
In Docker, Jul 06, 2021 How to install Docker on Rocky Linux 8
In the early December last year, RedHat took us all by suprise with the CentOS 8 End Of Life (EOL) announcement, that was scheduled for the end of 2021. In response to this, the origi...
In Docker, Jul 05, 2021 How to fix Docker login unknown shorthand flag error
In some of the previous posts I’ve covered the Authorization token method when authenticating to an AWS ECR private registry. If you have followed the steps as described in the post y...
In Docker, AWS, Jul 03, 2021 How to refresh AWS ECR authorization token
AWS ECR is a managed container registry which allows us to store, manage and deploy container images, mostly Docker images. Similar to Docker Hub, ECR supports two types of registries...
In AWS, Jul 01, 2021 Useful docker and docker-compose commands
Working with docker-compose in a development environment can be challenging sometimes for the newcomers, unless you got the time on your hands to google everything from stack overflow...
In Docker, Mar 21, 2021
Push Docker Images to Azure Container Registry using Azure CLI
Azure Container Registry is a private container registry where you can upload and manage your Docker and Open Container Initiative (OCI) images. At the time of writing, the cost of th...
In Azure, Docker, Mar 07, 2021 Build a Docker Image and push it to Docker Hub
This tutorial is aimed to show you how to build and push an image to the DockerHub repo. Let’s jump on the steps bellow.
In Docker, Feb 21, 2021
How to install Docker Compose on Ubuntu 19.04
Installing docker compose on Ubuntu 19.04 will get some benefits in terms of the procedure of starting multiple docker containers, creating volumes, etc… But before installing docker ...
In Docker, Dec 15, 2019 How to install docker on Ubuntu 19.04
Following the steps below will let you realize that installing docker on Ubuntu 19.04 is not that hard as it seems, so let’s see how you can do it.
In Docker, Dec 13, 2019 ubuntu
Install Podman Compose on Ubuntu 20.04
Installation of podman-compose on ubuntu 20.04 is pretty simple, quick, and can be achieved in three ways. Before jumping on the installation part make sure that you have python3 and ...
In Podman, Jan 09, 2022
How to install Postman on Ubuntu 20.04
There are some ways to install Postman on Ubuntu 20.04. As always, we want to keep the work simple and straight to the point. So I’m going to show you the easiest way to install Postm...
In Ubuntu, Dec 22, 2021
How to install Terragrunt on Ubuntu
Working with terragrunt as a terraform wrapper will ease things and simplify the terraform templates. Here I will show you how to set up quickly on your Ubuntu machine.
In Terragrunt, Nov 24, 2021
How to install Podman on Ubuntu 20.04
If you try to install Podman on Ubuntu 20.04 with the default Ubuntu packages, the installation will fail with the following error: E: Unable to locate package podman. In this tutoria...
In Ubuntu, Podman, Aug 12, 2021 How to install Terraform CLI on Ubuntu 20.04
All the cloud service providers have integrated and ease the way of using Terraform. So using terraform as infrastructure as code tool will efficiently minimize your code and speed up...
In Terraform, Jun 25, 2021 How to install Ansible on Ubuntu
Ansible is an IT automation tool that can help you to simplify the deployments of your applications, efficiently manage your infrastructure servers, and provides a lot of features and...
In Ansible, Ubuntu, Jun 06, 2021 How to install Docker Compose on Ubuntu 19.04
Installing docker compose on Ubuntu 19.04 will get some benefits in terms of the procedure of starting multiple docker containers, creating volumes, etc… But before installing docker ...
In Docker, Dec 15, 2019 How to install docker on Ubuntu 19.04
Following the steps below will let you realize that installing docker on Ubuntu 19.04 is not that hard as it seems, so let’s see how you can do it.
In Docker, Dec 13, 2019 docker compose
How to scale docker containers
When it comes working with an master - replica services docker offers a scaling compose command which is very useful. Here I’m going to show you how to use it with an example.
In Docker, Jan 17, 2022 How to fix Docker can't start service network not found
If you have already created a docker-compose stack and you are trying to restart the containers or start them you may face Docker error: Cannot start service ..: network $network-id n...
In Docker, Nov 18, 2021 How to install Docker Compose on Debian 11
We previously saw how to install Docker on Debian 11. As a sequel, I’m going to round it off with the docker compose installation on Debian 11.
In Docker, Sep 15, 2021 Useful docker and docker-compose commands
Working with docker-compose in a development environment can be challenging sometimes for the newcomers, unless you got the time on your hands to google everything from stack overflow...
In Docker, Mar 21, 2021 How to install Docker Compose on Ubuntu 19.04
Installing docker compose on Ubuntu 19.04 will get some benefits in terms of the procedure of starting multiple docker containers, creating volumes, etc… But before installing docker ...
In Docker, Dec 15, 2019 docker hub
How to search Docker Hub repositories from CLI
If you want to search for a specific docker image on Docker Hub there is a way to do this from the CLI. The docker search command will allow you to search Docker Hub from the CLI. It ...
In Docker, Aug 24, 2021 Build a Docker Image and push it to Docker Hub
This tutorial is aimed to show you how to build and push an image to the DockerHub repo. Let’s jump on the steps bellow.
In Docker, Feb 21, 2021 docker images
Filter the output of docker image ls
Sometimes using the filter flag as a part of the docker image ls command can be useful to figure out which images are taking space, which are dangling images or unused. In this tutori...
In Docker, Aug 26, 2021 Build a Docker Image and push it to Docker Hub
This tutorial is aimed to show you how to build and push an image to the DockerHub repo. Let’s jump on the steps bellow.
In Docker, Feb 21, 2021 acr
Push Docker Images to Azure Container Registry using Azure CLI
Azure Container Registry is a private container registry where you can upload and manage your Docker and Open Container Initiative (OCI) images. At the time of writing, the cost of th...
In Azure, Docker, Mar 07, 2021 images
Filter the output of docker image ls
Sometimes using the filter flag as a part of the docker image ls command can be useful to figure out which images are taking space, which are dangling images or unused. In this tutori...
In Docker, Aug 26, 2021 Push Docker Images to Azure Container Registry using Azure CLI
Azure Container Registry is a private container registry where you can upload and manage your Docker and Open Container Initiative (OCI) images. At the time of writing, the cost of th...
In Azure, Docker, Mar 07, 2021 repository
Docker Registry vs Docker Repository
Docker is one of that technologies that will probably stay for a while. In a matter of years, the IT world went from monolith to deploying applications on the edge in a couple of seco...
In Docker, Aug 23, 2021 Push Docker Images to Azure Container Registry using Azure CLI
Azure Container Registry is a private container registry where you can upload and manage your Docker and Open Container Initiative (OCI) images. At the time of writing, the cost of th...
In Azure, Docker, Mar 07, 2021 aks
Scale AKS user node pool to 0
In case you missed some of these posts: Create AKS cluster on Azure Start and Stop AKS cluster Configure AKS automatic upgrades
In Azure, Kubernetes, Sep 06, 2021 Configure AKS automatic upgrades
Regarding to managed Kubernetes services, IMHO Azure provides the best cloud experience, for a couple of reasons. From authentication and authorization standpoint, AKS integrates well...
In Azure, Kubernetes, Sep 01, 2021 How to stop and start Kubernetes cluster on Azure
In the previous Azure post, we’ve shown how to create an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster via the Azure CLI. Today, we’ll focus on how to stop and start AKS cluster using the of...
In Azure, Kubernetes, Apr 04, 2021 How to create Kubernetes cluster on Azure
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a managed Kubernetes service that helps you to deploy and manage clusters with ease. This post describes the commands in steps required to setup a Ku...
In Azure, Kubernetes, Mar 14, 2021 kubernetes
Multiple ways to run Kubernetes clusters locally
Kubernetes, the most popular container orchestration platform out there, needs no introduction. Let’s explore a couple of ways and tools on deploying K8s clusters on your local machine.
In Kubernetes, Jan 20, 2022
Scale AKS user node pool to 0
In case you missed some of these posts: Create AKS cluster on Azure Start and Stop AKS cluster Configure AKS automatic upgrades
In Azure, Kubernetes, Sep 06, 2021 Configure AKS automatic upgrades
Regarding to managed Kubernetes services, IMHO Azure provides the best cloud experience, for a couple of reasons. From authentication and authorization standpoint, AKS integrates well...
In Azure, Kubernetes, Sep 01, 2021 How to install kubectl on macOS
Kubectl stands as a powerful command-line tool which allows you to control your kubernetes clusters. The main role of kubectl is to deploy applications, manage your cluster recourses,...
In MacOS, Jul 22, 2021
How to stop and start Kubernetes cluster on Azure
In the previous Azure post, we’ve shown how to create an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) cluster via the Azure CLI. Today, we’ll focus on how to stop and start AKS cluster using the of...
In Azure, Kubernetes, Apr 04, 2021 How to create Kubernetes cluster on Azure
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) is a managed Kubernetes service that helps you to deploy and manage clusters with ease. This post describes the commands in steps required to setup a Ku...
In Azure, Kubernetes, Mar 14, 2021 ecs
How to drain an ECS instance
While troubleshooting the ECS cluster you may notice some of the EC2 instances are unhealthy due to some stuck processes. Here I’m going to show how to drain an ECS instance by replic...
In ECS, Oct 29, 2021 How to get private IP address of Fargate ECS task with metadata
Previously I’ve explained how to ssh into a fargate container. In this tutorial, I will cover some steps on how can you get the private IP address of a fargate ECS container, so that ...
In AWS, Sep 13, 2021 Define the CPU and Memory values for tasks hosted on Fargate
Migrating your ec2 instances on ECS to fargate will let you focus on building applications instead of managing servers. Maybe you will ask yourself, which size do you need to pick up ...
In AWS, Sep 09, 2021 How to remove ECS task definitions
For those who have experience with AWS ECS, we all know how frustrating is sometimes that we just can’t delete task definitions. The only option is to update all task definition revis...
In AWS, Aug 25, 2021 How to join EC2 instance to ECS cluster
AWS ECS is a container orchestration tool and it could be a great starting point as a beginner devops engineer before jumping on the Kubernetes hype train. Using an Auto Scaling group...
In AWS, Jul 25, 2021 SSH into an AWS ECS Fargate managed container
Managing servers from the developers’ side causes difficulties. To avoid such situations AWS offers Fargate, the new compute engine which will manage your ECS cluster depending on you...
In AWS, Jun 22, 2021 How to fix ecs cloudformation template if it's stuck in the rollback state
If your microservices are using ECS services and the deployments are going through CloudFormation, that sometimes can cause weird issues. For example, if there is an application error...
In AWS, Mar 24, 2021 cloudformation
How to create an S3 bucket through AWS CloudFormation
Deploying your infrastructure through CloudFormation as an infrastructure as code tool can cause some murky situations as a begginer because AWS is facing a lack of CloudFormation doc...
In CloudFormation, AWS, Oct 03, 2021 Declarative vs Imperative Infrastructure as Code
With the uprising of Terraform in the last couple of years, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a popular and hot topic in the DevOps world. Managing and deploying infrastructure is all w...
In IaC, Sep 16, 2021
How to fix ecs cloudformation template if it's stuck in the rollback state
If your microservices are using ECS services and the deployments are going through CloudFormation, that sometimes can cause weird issues. For example, if there is an application error...
In AWS, Mar 24, 2021 ansible
How to install Ansible on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 instance
When it comes to AWS hosted infrastructure, if there is a need for managing the instances or the deployments of the application/services you can use the approach of having one EC2 ded...
In AWS, Ansible, Oct 07, 2021 Reboot VMs with Ansible
Speaking of configuration management, Ansible is the most popular open-source automation tool out there. It’s mostly used for automating day to day operation activities, from installi...
In Ansible, Sep 14, 2021
How to install Ansible on Rocky Linux 8
If there is a need to simplify the deployments of your applications, manage your infrastructure servers, etc.. you can achieve it with ansible which is one of the most popular tool fo...
In Ansible, Jul 11, 2021 How to install Ansible on Ubuntu
Ansible is an IT automation tool that can help you to simplify the deployments of your applications, efficiently manage your infrastructure servers, and provides a lot of features and...
In Ansible, Ubuntu, Jun 06, 2021 How to get all the IP addresses of a group in Ansible
Usually when developing an Ansible role, most of the times we need to write a jinja2 template for some configuration file. Speaking from personal experience, I was writing an elastics...
In Ansible, Mar 28, 2021
jinja2
How to get all the IP addresses of a group in Ansible
Usually when developing an Ansible role, most of the times we need to write a jinja2 template for some configuration file. Speaking from personal experience, I was writing an elastics...
In Ansible, Mar 28, 2021 elasticsearch
Protect Elasticsearch stack from Apache Log4j vulnerability
As the Apache Log4j vulnerability is growing massively and its spread all over the internet a lot of worldwide companies are affected mostly on their java based applications. Elastics...
In Elasticsearch, Dec 16, 2021
How to dump Elasticsearch index to S3 with Docker
Previously I’ve covered the topic around export and import the Elasticsearch index. from one ES cluster to another. So now if you want to back up a particular index, instead of storin...
In Elasticsearch, Sep 21, 2021 How to export and import Elasticsearch Index with Docker
Synchronizing the ES index data between your prod, dev and local ES cluster environment is now achievable with docker. Moving the index data, mapping or analyzer can be done through t...
In Elasticsearch, Sep 17, 2021 Elasticsearch Garbage Collection
Elasticsearch, as you might already know, is a free and open-source search and analytics engine developed in Java. In today’s topic we are going to cover the Garbage Collection part o...
In Elasticsearch, Sep 10, 2021
How to check if document exist in Elasticsearch
Sometimes there is a need to check whether a document exists or not in Elasticsearch. Following the ES documentation and the best practices, you can use the HEAD method instead of the...
In Elasticsearch, Sep 03, 2021
How to create Elasticsearch index
Creating an Elasticsearch index is a quick and easy process. In practise it’s an ELK API call that requires you to think of how many shards do you want to assign and replica shards as...
In Elasticsearch, Sep 02, 2021
How to check Elasticsearch Cluster health
Knowing how to get statistics and understand the output from an Elasticsearch cluster can be very useful for a DevOps guy. This tutorial is aimed to show you how to check Elasticsearc...
In Elasticsearch, Aug 30, 2021
How to manually change the allocation of shards
While updating the mapping on some of the ES clusters or doing a full reindex which are expensive operations, you may face a data node failure. Due to the node failure, there is a pos...
In Elasticsearch, Jul 13, 2021 How to resolve AWS Elasticsearch cluster in red or yellow state
Understanding the ES cluster status state is crucial, when it comes to ES troubleshooting. If your role is to keep ES cluster healthy then you have to understand all the three states ...
In AWS, Jun 30, 2021 How to get all the IP addresses of a group in Ansible
Usually when developing an Ansible role, most of the times we need to write a jinja2 template for some configuration file. Speaking from personal experience, I was writing an elastics...
In Ansible, Mar 28, 2021 eks
SSH into an AWS ECS Fargate managed container
Managing servers from the developers’ side causes difficulties. To avoid such situations AWS offers Fargate, the new compute engine which will manage your ECS cluster depending on you...
In AWS, Jun 22, 2021 fargate
How to get private IP address of Fargate ECS task with metadata
Previously I’ve explained how to ssh into a fargate container. In this tutorial, I will cover some steps on how can you get the private IP address of a fargate ECS container, so that ...
In AWS, Sep 13, 2021 Define the CPU and Memory values for tasks hosted on Fargate
Migrating your ec2 instances on ECS to fargate will let you focus on building applications instead of managing servers. Maybe you will ask yourself, which size do you need to pick up ...
In AWS, Sep 09, 2021 SSH into an AWS ECS Fargate managed container
Managing servers from the developers’ side causes difficulties. To avoid such situations AWS offers Fargate, the new compute engine which will manage your ECS cluster depending on you...
In AWS, Jun 22, 2021 terraform
Create AWS IAM User Login Profile with PGP encrypted password in Terraform
Managing and deploying AWS IAM User Login Profiles in Terraform requires a base-64 encoded PGP public key or a keybase, as stated in the official documentation. But, there is no info ...
In Terraform, Jan 04, 2022 Decrypt iam_user_login_profile password in Terraform
It’s almost always not a good idea to decrypt aws_iam_user_login_profile password to Terraform output since there are better approaches, which will not be covered in this topic today....
In Terraform, Dec 29, 2021
Refreshing Terraform state
Refreshing Terraform state is done by adding the -refresh-only flag (since terraform refresh is depricated) when running plan and apply operations. To start off, what does it mean and...
In Terraform, Dec 09, 2021
How to install Terragrunt on Ubuntu
Working with terragrunt as a terraform wrapper will ease things and simplify the terraform templates. Here I will show you how to set up quickly on your Ubuntu machine.
In Terragrunt, Nov 24, 2021 How to install Terraform on Debian 11
Today I’ll be writing about terraform installation on Debian 11. The steps are pretty easy, so you just have to follow them and accomplish the installation process. Let’s hop in.
In Terraform, Nov 06, 2021
How to install Terraform on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 instance
There are a lot of tutorials on how to install the latest version of Terraform out there. Most of them are pointing to the terraform official release site, so you need to get the late...
In AWS, Terraform, Oct 11, 2021 Get AWS Region Name in Terraform
The following tutorial will be a step by step guide on how to get the current AWS region name in Terraform.
In Terraform, AWS, Oct 06, 2021 How to make local archive_file to be available when deploying Terraform aws_lambda_function
In today’s blog post, I really need to share with you all a quick tip regarding Terraform’s aws_lambda_function resource and how to make the latest local data archive_file to be prese...
In Terraform, Sep 20, 2021 Declarative vs Imperative Infrastructure as Code
With the uprising of Terraform in the last couple of years, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a popular and hot topic in the DevOps world. Managing and deploying infrastructure is all w...
In IaC, Sep 16, 2021 Reusing templates in Terraform
Working with Terraform and keeping the infrastructure code DRY has always been fun. If you’ve been deploying AWS S3 policies, or IAM policies, adding variables and making them reusabl...
In Terraform, Sep 12, 2021
How to fix Terraform's acquiring the state lock error
A couple of days ago, I was deploying a Terraform ECS cluster, and during the terraform plan command, i forgot to add a module. Didn’t want to wait it out until the command finish, so...
In Terraform, Jul 31, 2021
How to ignore changes in Terraform
Terraform is the most popular Infrastructure as Code tool mostly used for spinning up and managing infrastructure on the public cloud giants AWS, Azure, GCP and DigitalOcean. But, som...
In Terraform, Jul 23, 2021
Restrict Variable Values in Terraform
If you have worked before with Terraform by provisioning a cloud infrastructure and/or writing Terraform modules, you must have stumbled upon some variable validation issues. This cou...
In Terraform, Jul 18, 2021
How to install Terraform on Rocky Linux
Finally, there is a replacement on the CentOS distro. The fresh and new Rocky Linux will replace the Centos, so the Centos team announces that they are going to focus on the CentOS St...
In Terraform, Jul 02, 2021 How to install Terraform CLI on Ubuntu 20.04
All the cloud service providers have integrated and ease the way of using Terraform. So using terraform as infrastructure as code tool will efficiently minimize your code and speed up...
In Terraform, Jun 25, 2021 ec2
How to install UFW on Amazon Linux 2
Maybe you will raise a question is it worth installing ufw on Amazon Linux? Some say that it’s enough to use the instance security groups but if you need some extra security on a serv...
In UFW, Dec 10, 2021
How to drain an ECS instance
While troubleshooting the ECS cluster you may notice some of the EC2 instances are unhealthy due to some stuck processes. Here I’m going to show how to drain an ECS instance by replic...
In ECS, Oct 29, 2021 How to install Nomad on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 instance
Working with popular orchestration application services like Kubernetes and ECS is not that easy as it seems when it comes to scaling the app, the deployments, and managing the resour...
In AWS, Nomad, Oct 13, 2021 How to install Terraform on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 instance
There are a lot of tutorials on how to install the latest version of Terraform out there. Most of them are pointing to the terraform official release site, so you need to get the late...
In AWS, Terraform, Oct 11, 2021 How to install Ansible on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 instance
When it comes to AWS hosted infrastructure, if there is a need for managing the instances or the deployments of the application/services you can use the approach of having one EC2 ded...
In AWS, Ansible, Oct 07, 2021 How to install Nginx on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 instance
Installing Nginx from the Amazon Linux repo will provide you with an exceedingly old Nginx version. Therefore, I will show you how to install it through the EPEL repo which is my pref...
In AWS, Nginx, Oct 05, 2021 Remmina can't remote into AWS EC2 Windows Machine due to libfreerdp
If you need to access your Windows-based server through your local Linux machine you should consider using some of the RDPs software. A few days ago I needed to access a Microsoft SQL...
In RDP, Oct 01, 2021 Define the CPU and Memory values for tasks hosted on Fargate
Migrating your ec2 instances on ECS to fargate will let you focus on building applications instead of managing servers. Maybe you will ask yourself, which size do you need to pick up ...
In AWS, Sep 09, 2021 How to install Podman on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 instance
If you are looking for a Docker replacement then Podman is the right choice for you. The installation process is quick and easy. In this tutorial, I’m gonna show you how to install po...
In AWS, Podman, Aug 10, 2021 How to join EC2 instance to ECS cluster
AWS ECS is a container orchestration tool and it could be a great starting point as a beginner devops engineer before jumping on the Kubernetes hype train. Using an Auto Scaling group...
In AWS, Jul 25, 2021 How to stop all running EC2 instances from the command line
Stopping preproduction, staging environment EC2 instances could be described sometimes as a good practice. In the next few lines, I’ll show you how you can easily stop all running EC2...
In AWS, Jun 27, 2021 s3
How to create an S3 bucket through AWS CloudFormation
Deploying your infrastructure through CloudFormation as an infrastructure as code tool can cause some murky situations as a begginer because AWS is facing a lack of CloudFormation doc...
In CloudFormation, AWS, Oct 03, 2021 How to dump Elasticsearch index to S3 with Docker
Previously I’ve covered the topic around export and import the Elasticsearch index. from one ES cluster to another. So now if you want to back up a particular index, instead of storin...
In Elasticsearch, Sep 21, 2021 How to pg_dump to S3 directly
Just before we start with this tutorial, I just wanna say, don’t try this on production. Streaming pg_dump backup directly to S3 bucket is a bad practice to start with, unless you are...
In PostgreSQL, AWS, Jul 29, 2021 How to list S3 bucket size from the command line
AWS S3 as a service is pretty cheap and probably the most popular one among the rest of the cloud object storage services. S3 is most often used as a database backup storage, log stor...
In AWS, Jun 29, 2021 elk
How to manually change the allocation of shards
While updating the mapping on some of the ES clusters or doing a full reindex which are expensive operations, you may face a data node failure. Due to the node failure, there is a pos...
In Elasticsearch, Jul 13, 2021 How to resolve AWS Elasticsearch cluster in red or yellow state
Understanding the ES cluster status state is crucial, when it comes to ES troubleshooting. If your role is to keep ES cluster healthy then you have to understand all the three states ...
In AWS, Jun 30, 2021 ecr
How to fix Docker login unknown shorthand flag error
In some of the previous posts I’ve covered the Authorization token method when authenticating to an AWS ECR private registry. If you have followed the steps as described in the post y...
In Docker, AWS, Jul 03, 2021 How to refresh AWS ECR authorization token
AWS ECR is a managed container registry which allows us to store, manage and deploy container images, mostly Docker images. Similar to Docker Hub, ECR supports two types of registries...
In AWS, Jul 01, 2021 rocky linux
How to install Firewalld on Rocky Linux 8
Keeping your services and host itself secure is crucial. Nowadays there are a lot of attacks that can harm your host server, like brute force attacks, SQL injections, ssh, etc… So if ...
In Firewalld, Nov 30, 2021
How to install MongoDB on Rocky Linux 8
MongoDB has an attitude to store the data in BSON, which can be searched and indexed, with a way better performance. Installing MongoDB on rocky linux can additionally improve the sea...
In MongoDB, Aug 20, 2021 How to secure Apache with Let's Encrypt on Rocky Linux 8
As a part of the certbot installation in this tutorial, you will see how to secure your Apache web server with a free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate. Let’s start.
In Apache, Aug 08, 2021 How to secure Nginx with Let's Encrypt on Rocky Linux 8
Previously we saw how to install Certbot on Rocky Linux 8 depending on your web server, whether it’s Nginx or Apache. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to secure your Nginx ...
In Nginx, Aug 06, 2021 How to install Certbot on Rocky Linux 8
Installing certbot on your rocky linux server/machine is usually meant to be used to switch an existing HTTP site to work in HTTPS. It’s a helpful tool written in python which helps y...
In Certbot, Aug 05, 2021 How to install PostgreSQL on Rocky Linux 8
Installing PostgreSQL on Rocky Linux follows the same procedure as MySQL. We need to enable the PostgreSQL module, install the desired version and enable the PostgreSQL service. Follo...
In PostgreSQL, Aug 01, 2021 How to install MySQL on Rocky Linux 8
Installing MySQL on Rocky Linux it’s quite easy and quick. A lot of today’s applications are using MySQL as a web database. MySQL is an open source database and offers a lot of features.
In MySQL, Jul 30, 2021 How to configure DHCP to fix the network connectivity on Rocky Linux
Some of the RHEL distros can cause common networking configuration issues on the first installation, so you will not be able to update the packages on a server or browse external Webs...
In Rocky Linux, Jul 26, 2021 How to install Apache on Rocky Linux 8
Apache is one of the most popular, open source web servers that allows you to host your web content on internet. Apache can be installed easily and can run on any operating system. In...
In Apache, Jul 24, 2021 How to install Nginx on Rocky Linux 8
If you need to implement a reverse proxy, load balancer or mail proxy, Nginx is the best-suited web server that can manage all of these actions. This tutorial will explain, how to ins...
In Nginx, Jul 20, 2021 How to install Redis on Rocky Linux 8
If you are seeking a caching solution for your application then Redis will appear on the list. Here we will show you how to install Redis on Rocky Linux which is a replacement for Cen...
In Redis, Jul 17, 2021 How to install Ansible on Rocky Linux 8
If there is a need to simplify the deployments of your applications, manage your infrastructure servers, etc.. you can achieve it with ansible which is one of the most popular tool fo...
In Ansible, Jul 11, 2021 How to install Docker Compose on Rocky Linux 8
Installing Docker Compose on Rocky Linux follows the same procedure as the other Linux distros. Firstly, you need to make sure that you have installed Docker on your Rocky Linux machine.
In Docker, Jul 06, 2021 How to install Docker on Rocky Linux 8
In the early December last year, RedHat took us all by suprise with the CentOS 8 End Of Life (EOL) announcement, that was scheduled for the end of 2021. In response to this, the origi...
In Docker, Jul 05, 2021 How to install Terraform on Rocky Linux
Finally, there is a replacement on the CentOS distro. The fresh and new Rocky Linux will replace the Centos, so the Centos team announces that they are going to focus on the CentOS St...
In Terraform, Jul 02, 2021 macos
How to shutdown and restart MacOS from the Terminal
As a DevOps engineers, we must get used to running commands from the terminal. Let’s see how easy and fast we can shutdown and restart a MacOS machine after long day of work.
In MacOS, Nov 29, 2021
How to Install Apple Command Line Tools
Apple Command Line Tools are part of the Xcode, the official integrated development environment (IDE) for MacOS. The installation is a one-liner, so let’s just jump right into it.
In MacOS, Nov 13, 2021
Install Visual Studio Code on Mac
Vscode is considered as one of the most used code editors nowadays. In this brief tutorial I will show you how to install it on Mac using Homebrew.
In MacOS, Nov 04, 2021
Install Skype on Mac
Skype as a world-known VoIP based software can be installed in multiple ways on Mac. Today I’m going to pick up one of the preferable ways of doing it, which is the easiest and the qu...
In MacOS, Oct 31, 2021
Install Ruby on Mac
There are four ways to install Ruby on all computing platforms, including package management systems, installers, managers, and of course building from source. RVM as a Ruby version m...
In MacOS, Oct 30, 2021
How to install kubectl on macOS
Kubectl stands as a powerful command-line tool which allows you to control your kubernetes clusters. The main role of kubectl is to deploy applications, manage your cluster recourses,...
In MacOS, Jul 22, 2021 How to Install PowerShell on Mac
As a devops engineer, we most likely would prefer to work with our cool and comfy MacBook Pros. And if you are working with Azure, you will most probably need to install PowerShell at...
In MacOS, Jul 16, 2021
How to fix kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908) on Mac
The first time you try to spin up a VM on Mac, you will probably go with VirtualBox as a Hypervisor, and honestly VBox is pretty good for beginners who just want to get the things don...
In MacOS, Jul 07, 2021
virtualbox
How to install Windows 11 on VirtualBox
Windows 11 has been out there for almost 3 months, so let’s see how good the virtualbox installation will go.
In Windows 11, Dec 21, 2021
How to fix Windows 11 'does not meet the requirements' error on VirtualBox
As with most of the new OS releases on Mac, Windows or Linux, my best practice is to test them first in a virtual environment, usually using VirtualBox. The reason you might stumble u...
In Windows 11, Dec 17, 2021
How to fix kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908) on Mac
The first time you try to spin up a VM on Mac, you will probably go with VirtualBox as a Hypervisor, and honestly VBox is pretty good for beginners who just want to get the things don...
In MacOS, Jul 07, 2021 docker cp
How to copy files/folders to and from Docker Containers
There are situations when you need to copy files/folders from the container’s file system to the local machine or the reverse. You can achive that with Docker copy command. In this tu...
In Docker, Jul 08, 2021 terminal
How to shutdown and restart MacOS from the Terminal
As a DevOps engineers, we must get used to running commands from the terminal. Let’s see how easy and fast we can shutdown and restart a MacOS machine after long day of work.
In MacOS, Nov 29, 2021 Check Internet Speed from CLI on Linux
In this day and age, experiencing a slow internet connection could be a huge deal, especially for most of us who work remotely. Since we can do almost anything from the CLI, let’s sav...
In Linux, Oct 18, 2021 How to copy files/folders to and from Docker Containers
There are situations when you need to copy files/folders from the container’s file system to the local machine or the reverse. You can achive that with Docker copy command. In this tu...
In Docker, Jul 08, 2021 postgresql
Calculate PostgreSQL configuration
Fine-tuning PostgreSQL requires a lot of experience and screw-ups along the way. Luckily, there is a configuration calculator available online made just for DevOps, SysOps and DB admi...
In PostgreSQL, Dec 19, 2021
POSTGRESQL ERROR: Canceling statement due to conflict with recovery
This article is focused on resolving Canceling statement due to conflict with recovery, which is a common issue when dealing with master-slave replication.
In PostgreSQL, Oct 14, 2021
How to list, remove and upgrade PostgreSQL cluster
As part of the PostgreSQL series, in today’s tutorial, we are going to see on how can we list, remove and upgrade clusters, the easy way.
In PostgreSQL, Aug 11, 2021
How to terminate connections in PostgreSQL
As part of the PostgreSQL series, in today’s tutorial, we are going to focus on how to list and terminate connections. terminate, kill and drop will be used interchangeably through th...
In PostgreSQL, Aug 07, 2021
How to terminate idle transactions in PostgreSQL
As part of the PostgreSQL series, in today’s tutorial, we are going to see on how to set idle_in_transaction_session_timeout parameter and handle idle transactions, so you won’t face ...
In PostgreSQL, Aug 04, 2021
How to resolve PostgreSQL FATAL: sorry, too many clients already
As part of the PostgreSQL series, in today’s tutorial, we are going to see on how to deal with one of the most often seen postgresql errors:org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: FATAL: s...
In PostgreSQL, Aug 02, 2021
How to install PostgreSQL on Rocky Linux 8
Installing PostgreSQL on Rocky Linux follows the same procedure as MySQL. We need to enable the PostgreSQL module, install the desired version and enable the PostgreSQL service. Follo...
In PostgreSQL, Aug 01, 2021 How to pg_dump to S3 directly
Just before we start with this tutorial, I just wanna say, don’t try this on production. Streaming pg_dump backup directly to S3 bucket is a bad practice to start with, unless you are...
In PostgreSQL, AWS, Jul 29, 2021 Basic and Common PostgreSQL commands
In some of the previous posts, I’ve written about How to Backup and Restore a PostgreSQL Database and How To Show Database and table size in PostgreSQL. These are pretty common, basic...
In PostgreSQL, Jul 27, 2021
Show Database and table size in PostgreSQL
In this tutorial, we’ll see how we can show a database and table size in PostgreSQL. Planning a backup procedure, determing server instance size, could be few reasons to keep an eye o...
In PostgreSQL, Jul 19, 2021
How to Backup and Restore a PostgreSQL Database
As an open-source database, PostgreSQL is in the top 3 most popularly used databases which offen can be find as a managed service offered by the public cloud giants. In one of the pre...
In PostgreSQL, Jul 09, 2021
pg_dump
How to pg_dump to S3 directly
Just before we start with this tutorial, I just wanna say, don’t try this on production. Streaming pg_dump backup directly to S3 bucket is a bad practice to start with, unless you are...
In PostgreSQL, AWS, Jul 29, 2021 How to Backup and Restore a PostgreSQL Database
As an open-source database, PostgreSQL is in the top 3 most popularly used databases which offen can be find as a managed service offered by the public cloud giants. In one of the pre...
In PostgreSQL, Jul 09, 2021 pg_restore
How to Backup and Restore a PostgreSQL Database
As an open-source database, PostgreSQL is in the top 3 most popularly used databases which offen can be find as a managed service offered by the public cloud giants. In one of the pre...
In PostgreSQL, Jul 09, 2021 psql
How to install PostgreSQL on Rocky Linux 8
Installing PostgreSQL on Rocky Linux follows the same procedure as MySQL. We need to enable the PostgreSQL module, install the desired version and enable the PostgreSQL service. Follo...
In PostgreSQL, Aug 01, 2021 Basic and Common PostgreSQL commands
In some of the previous posts, I’ve written about How to Backup and Restore a PostgreSQL Database and How To Show Database and table size in PostgreSQL. These are pretty common, basic...
In PostgreSQL, Jul 27, 2021 Show Database and table size in PostgreSQL
In this tutorial, we’ll see how we can show a database and table size in PostgreSQL. Planning a backup procedure, determing server instance size, could be few reasons to keep an eye o...
In PostgreSQL, Jul 19, 2021 How to Backup and Restore a PostgreSQL Database
As an open-source database, PostgreSQL is in the top 3 most popularly used databases which offen can be find as a managed service offered by the public cloud giants. In one of the pre...
In PostgreSQL, Jul 09, 2021 arm64
How to install Docker Compose on ARM64
In some of the previous posts I’ve covered how you can install docker-compose on Linux distributions like Rocky Linux for example. It’s pretty easy to set it up, right?! Usually when ...
In Docker, Jul 12, 2021 mysql
FirewallD allow MySQL remote access
On most of the RHEL based distributions, FirewallD comes as a default firewall and it’s configured to pass only ssh connections by default. Therefore in this tutorial, I’m going to sh...
In Firewalld, Dec 06, 2021
How to execute MySQL DB migrations with Symfony and Doctrine
If you are working on infrastructure with a lot of microservices as a developer you may face difficulties executing SQL queries in terms of keeping database structure clean and safe c...
In Symfony, MySQL, Nov 16, 2021
How to export and import all MySQL databases at once
Working with microservices will ramp up the number of MySQL databases. So if you need to create a backup for all of them at once there is a way to do it through the cli. Also importin...
In MySQL, Nov 12, 2021 How to resolve AWS Aurora ERROR 3024 (HY000)
If you hold some heavy-load AWS Aurora database tables and you are trying to export some of the tables or import data, there is a big chance to face the following error ERROR 3024 (HY...
In AWS, Aurora, Nov 02, 2021 How to import CSV file into MySQL table
Importing the data through MySQL Workbench or phpmyadmin can cause some limitation issues, so things will get complicated. In this tutorial, I’m gonna show you how to import CSV file ...
In MySQL, Aug 03, 2021
How to install MySQL on Rocky Linux 8
Installing MySQL on Rocky Linux it’s quite easy and quick. A lot of today’s applications are using MySQL as a web database. MySQL is an open source database and offers a lot of features.
In MySQL, Jul 30, 2021 How to get database and table size in MySQL
In this tutorial, we’ll see how we can show a single and multiple database and table size in MySQL. Let’s get straight to the point.
In MySQL, Jul 21, 2021
How to Backup and Restore a MySQL Database
MySQL is one of the most popular open-source database engines. Manually backing up and restoring databases for whatever reasons could be found quite easy to execute, and we can see ho...
In MySQL, Jul 14, 2021
jenkins
How to check Apache Log4j vulnerability in Jenkins
There are a lot of open forums and discussions due to the Log4j zero-day flaw these days. Log4j is an open-source java-based library developed by Apache Software Foundation and it’s u...
In Jenkins, Dec 14, 2021
Jenkins - same workspace for multiple jobs
In order to save some space on your Jenkins instance or if you need to create some backup jobs for multiple environments, you will need to enable shared space between multiple jobs. I...
In Jenkins, Nov 20, 2021
Clean up Docker space for Jenkins jobs
Managing and deploying complex infrastructure with Jenkins sometimes can cause job failure issues. For example, if you are working with microservices and all the deployments are going...
In Docker, Jenkins, Jul 15, 2021 powershell
How to Install PowerShell on Mac
As a devops engineer, we most likely would prefer to work with our cool and comfy MacBook Pros. And if you are working with Azure, you will most probably need to install PowerShell at...
In MacOS, Jul 16, 2021 redis
How to install Redis on Debian 11
Improving your site performance and caching your content can be achieved with Redis which stands as one of the most popular caching tools nowadays. How the complexity of the applicati...
In Redis, Sep 29, 2021
How to install Redis on Rocky Linux 8
If you are seeking a caching solution for your application then Redis will appear on the list. Here we will show you how to install Redis on Rocky Linux which is a replacement for Cen...
In Redis, Jul 17, 2021 nginx
How to enable HTTP/2 in Nginx
HTTP/2 was published almost 7 years ago, HTTP/3 being an internet draft standard since October 2020, and yet here we are, most of us still using HTTP/1.1. Considering how things quick...
In Nginx, Jan 18, 2022 Redirect HTTP to HTTPS in Nginx
Nowadays almost every owner of a website wants to secure his site with an SSL certificate. Once that is achieved the second step is to redirect the whole HTTP traffic to HTTPS dependi...
In Nginx, Dec 26, 2021
Setup Nginx Proxy for Node.js app
Behind every major player in the cloud provider’s field, there is a hidden “magic” that makes our applications work. Most of the time, this magic is some kind of a proxy, mostly Nginx...
In Nginx, Oct 22, 2021 Resolve (code=exited, status=2) in Nginx
Sometimes after nginx service restart and you’re trying to get the service status, you might get the following status code line:Process: 10316 ExecStop=/sbin/start-stop-daemon --quiet...
In Linux, Oct 20, 2021 How to install Nginx on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 instance
Installing Nginx from the Amazon Linux repo will provide you with an exceedingly old Nginx version. Therefore, I will show you how to install it through the EPEL repo which is my pref...
In AWS, Nginx, Oct 05, 2021 How to enable CORS in Nginx
If you are trying to make API calls and you are getting the following error from nginx No Access-Control-Allow-Origin header is present on the requested resource you should definitely...
In Nginx, Sep 07, 2021 How to install Nginx on Debian 11
Installing Nginx on Debian 11 is pretty easy and straightforward. This tutorial will show you how to install it and enable HTTP traffic on your debian server.
In Nginx, Aug 22, 2021 Missing sites-available directory in Nginx
As part of the Nginx series, in today’s tutorial, we are going to see on how to add that missing sites-available subdirectory. The reason behind this, is because most of us have been ...
In Nginx, Aug 17, 2021 How to set up Nginx reverse proxy for your application
Using Nginx reverse proxy could be very useful, especially if you are developing an application with a framework that can run its own server like nodejs, python, ruby on rails, etc… I...
In Nginx, Aug 14, 2021 How to block visitors by country in Nginx
In some of mine previous posts, I wrote about how you can whitelist IPs in Nginx. In today’s tutorial, we are going to see how can we block specific countries in a few steps.
In Nginx, Aug 13, 2021 How to whitelist IPs in Nginx
We all know what firewalls are for, but sometimes they can become a pain in the arse, and we all end up opening HTTP and HTTPS port by default. Let’s say we host multiple domains via ...
In Nginx, Aug 09, 2021 How to secure Nginx with Let's Encrypt on Rocky Linux 8
Previously we saw how to install Certbot on Rocky Linux 8 depending on your web server, whether it’s Nginx or Apache. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to secure your Nginx ...
In Nginx, Aug 06, 2021 How to determine the correct number of max children processes for PHP-FPM
Most of the PHP developers are using Nginx with php-fpm as the most efficient approach. Most likely nginx will throw php errors, that the server reached the pm.max_children number. It...
In PHP, Jul 28, 2021 How to install Nginx on Rocky Linux 8
If you need to implement a reverse proxy, load balancer or mail proxy, Nginx is the best-suited web server that can manage all of these actions. This tutorial will explain, how to ins...
In Nginx, Jul 20, 2021 kubectl
How to install kubectl on macOS
Kubectl stands as a powerful command-line tool which allows you to control your kubernetes clusters. The main role of kubectl is to deploy applications, manage your cluster recourses,...
In MacOS, Jul 22, 2021 apache
Redirect HTTP to HTTPS in Apache
Securing your website by setting redirect from HTTP to HTTPS in Apache can be achieved easily if your SSL certificate is generated and ready to use. It can be done using a virtual hos...
In Nginx, Dec 28, 2021
Scan Docker Images for Apache Log4j2 vulnerability
Docker Hub already announced public Log4jShell detection which is now live on Docker Official Images. But for those of you who are still using some of the old or custom images, there ...
In Docker, Dec 20, 2021 Protect Elasticsearch stack from Apache Log4j vulnerability
As the Apache Log4j vulnerability is growing massively and its spread all over the internet a lot of worldwide companies are affected mostly on their java based applications. Elastics...
In Elasticsearch, Dec 16, 2021 How to check Apache Log4j vulnerability in Jenkins
There are a lot of open forums and discussions due to the Log4j zero-day flaw these days. Log4j is an open-source java-based library developed by Apache Software Foundation and it’s u...
In Jenkins, Dec 14, 2021 How to create Apache reverse proxy for your application
Creating Apache reverse proxy follows a similar procedure as Nginx. In some of the previous posts, we saw how to set up Nginx reverse proxy, so today I’m going to show you exactly the...
In Apache, Sep 23, 2021 How to secure Apache with Let's Encrypt on Rocky Linux 8
As a part of the certbot installation in this tutorial, you will see how to secure your Apache web server with a free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate. Let’s start.
In Apache, Aug 08, 2021 How to install Apache on Rocky Linux 8
Apache is one of the most popular, open source web servers that allows you to host your web content on internet. Apache can be installed easily and can run on any operating system. In...
In Apache, Jul 24, 2021 dhcp
How to configure DHCP to fix the network connectivity on Rocky Linux
Some of the RHEL distros can cause common networking configuration issues on the first installation, so you will not be able to update the packages on a server or browse external Webs...
In Rocky Linux, Jul 26, 2021 networking
How to configure DHCP to fix the network connectivity on Rocky Linux
Some of the RHEL distros can cause common networking configuration issues on the first installation, so you will not be able to update the packages on a server or browse external Webs...
In Rocky Linux, Jul 26, 2021 php
How to install PHP 7.4 on Amazon Linux 2
Setting up a PHP environment for a PHP-based project on Amazon Linux 2 it’s a straightforward process and it can be achieved in a few steps. This tutorial is aimed to show you the ste...
In PHP, Dec 24, 2021 How to install PHP composer within Dockerfile
Dockerizing your PHP application probably would require some external commands within your base docker image. That’s why you will need to have a Dockerfile and put all the additional ...
In Docker, Dec 04, 2021 How to execute MySQL DB migrations with Symfony and Doctrine
If you are working on infrastructure with a lot of microservices as a developer you may face difficulties executing SQL queries in terms of keeping database structure clean and safe c...
In Symfony, MySQL, Nov 16, 2021 How to determine the correct number of max children processes for PHP-FPM
Most of the PHP developers are using Nginx with php-fpm as the most efficient approach. Most likely nginx will throw php errors, that the server reached the pm.max_children number. It...
In PHP, Jul 28, 2021 php-fpm
How to determine the correct number of max children processes for PHP-FPM
Most of the PHP developers are using Nginx with php-fpm as the most efficient approach. Most likely nginx will throw php errors, that the server reached the pm.max_children number. It...
In PHP, Jul 28, 2021 csv
Convert Linux commands output from CSV to JSON
CSV to JSON conversion is commonly used in the Monitoring part of the DevOps cycle, usually when we need to gather some data, parse it, and ship it via some monitoring agent, like flu...
In Linux, Sep 18, 2021 How to import CSV file into MySQL table
Importing the data through MySQL Workbench or phpmyadmin can cause some limitation issues, so things will get complicated. In this tutorial, I’m gonna show you how to import CSV file ...
In MySQL, Aug 03, 2021 certbot
Certbot auto renew SSL certificate creating a cron job
If you are using a free SSL certificate from certbot, probably you are tired of the manual renewal. Here I’m going to show you how to automate the process of creating a cron job that ...
In Certbot, Jan 19, 2022
How to list, renew and delete Certbot certificates
Managing certbot certificates is often a underlooked operation since Certbot handles cert renewal automatically using a cronjob, so no worries there. But, what if we want to list whic...
In Certbot, Dec 03, 2021 How to secure Domain with Let's Encrypt SSL certificate on Amazon Linux 2
As a sequel to the previous topic where we saw how to install Certbot on Amazon Linux 2, here I’m going to show you how to secure your domain with a free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate...
In Certbot, Nov 28, 2021
How to install Certbot on Amazon Linux 2
Using the AWS amazon linux 2 template for your EC2 instance is always a preferred way as an AWS-optimized and proprietary template. So if your web application requires an SSL certific...
In Certbot, Nov 26, 2021 How to secure Apache with Let's Encrypt on Rocky Linux 8
As a part of the certbot installation in this tutorial, you will see how to secure your Apache web server with a free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate. Let’s start.
In Apache, Aug 08, 2021 How to secure Nginx with Let's Encrypt on Rocky Linux 8
Previously we saw how to install Certbot on Rocky Linux 8 depending on your web server, whether it’s Nginx or Apache. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to secure your Nginx ...
In Nginx, Aug 06, 2021 How to install Certbot on Rocky Linux 8
Installing certbot on your rocky linux server/machine is usually meant to be used to switch an existing HTTP site to work in HTTPS. It’s a helpful tool written in python which helps y...
In Certbot, Aug 05, 2021 security
AWS Associate VPC with Private Hosted Zone
Working with multiple AWS accounts can lead to timeouts between the different account services. Behind the VPC peering and the routing table connection, a very important thing is to s...
In AWS, Dec 30, 2021 Redirect HTTP to HTTPS in Apache
Securing your website by setting redirect from HTTP to HTTPS in Apache can be achieved easily if your SSL certificate is generated and ready to use. It can be done using a virtual hos...
In Nginx, Dec 28, 2021 Redirect HTTP to HTTPS in Nginx
Nowadays almost every owner of a website wants to secure his site with an SSL certificate. Once that is achieved the second step is to redirect the whole HTTP traffic to HTTPS dependi...
In Nginx, Dec 26, 2021 Scan Docker Images for Apache Log4j2 vulnerability
Docker Hub already announced public Log4jShell detection which is now live on Docker Official Images. But for those of you who are still using some of the old or custom images, there ...
In Docker, Dec 20, 2021 Protect Elasticsearch stack from Apache Log4j vulnerability
As the Apache Log4j vulnerability is growing massively and its spread all over the internet a lot of worldwide companies are affected mostly on their java based applications. Elastics...
In Elasticsearch, Dec 16, 2021 How to check Apache Log4j vulnerability in Jenkins
There are a lot of open forums and discussions due to the Log4j zero-day flaw these days. Log4j is an open-source java-based library developed by Apache Software Foundation and it’s u...
In Jenkins, Dec 14, 2021 AWS|How to allow source IP addresses to access specific URL path using an Application Load Balancer
Most likely, if you use ECS as your application orchestration service it will require some basic knowledge to manage Application Load Balancers short ALBs. Essentially managing the ac...
In AWS, Dec 12, 2021 5 Ways to Protect Root Account in the Cloud
Security as one of the Five Pillars of the Well-Architected Framework has been underlooked, not just in the age of the cloud computing but before that as well. With cloud migration be...
In Cloud, Oct 12, 2021 How to secure Apache with Let's Encrypt on Rocky Linux 8
As a part of the certbot installation in this tutorial, you will see how to secure your Apache web server with a free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate. Let’s start.
In Apache, Aug 08, 2021 How to secure Nginx with Let's Encrypt on Rocky Linux 8
Previously we saw how to install Certbot on Rocky Linux 8 depending on your web server, whether it’s Nginx or Apache. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to secure your Nginx ...
In Nginx, Aug 06, 2021 podman
How to Install Podman Compose on Centos 7
When it comes to installing podman-compose on centos 7 it follows the same procedure as on the other rhel based distros and there are three ways to achieve it. You only need to make s...
In Podman, Jan 15, 2022
Docker vs Podman
2022 might be the year of DevOps alternatives, including cloud providers, CI/CD tools and even containers. Speaking of containers, Podman looks like a promising alternative to Docker....
In Docker, Podman, Jan 14, 2022 Install Podman Compose on Ubuntu 20.04
Installation of podman-compose on ubuntu 20.04 is pretty simple, quick, and can be achieved in three ways. Before jumping on the installation part make sure that you have python3 and ...
In Podman, Jan 09, 2022 Install Podman Compose on Amazon Linux
As the podman is becoming a suitable way for replacing docker he also offers a compose file for managing multiple services as docker-compose. There are three ways to install it and I’...
In Podman, Jan 07, 2022
Install Podman on Windows 11
The installation guide for running Podman on Windows 11 follows the same idea as Install Docker on Windows 11 without Docker Desktop.
In Podman, Dec 31, 2021
Docker as an alias for Podman
There is a quick hack to get started with Podman if you are not familiar with the syntax though.
In Podman, Dec 23, 2021 Install Podman on Windows 10
The trick for installation and running Podman on Windows 10 follows the same idea as Install Docker on Windows 10 without Docker Desktop.
In Podman, Dec 15, 2021
How to install Podman on Ubuntu 20.04
If you try to install Podman on Ubuntu 20.04 with the default Ubuntu packages, the installation will fail with the following error: E: Unable to locate package podman. In this tutoria...
In Ubuntu, Podman, Aug 12, 2021 How to install Podman on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 instance
If you are looking for a Docker replacement then Podman is the right choice for you. The installation process is quick and easy. In this tutorial, I’m gonna show you how to install po...
In AWS, Podman, Aug 10, 2021 amazon linux
Install Podman Compose on Amazon Linux
As the podman is becoming a suitable way for replacing docker he also offers a compose file for managing multiple services as docker-compose. There are three ways to install it and I’...
In Podman, Jan 07, 2022 How to install PHP 7.4 on Amazon Linux 2
Setting up a PHP environment for a PHP-based project on Amazon Linux 2 it’s a straightforward process and it can be achieved in a few steps. This tutorial is aimed to show you the ste...
In PHP, Dec 24, 2021 How to install UFW on Amazon Linux 2
Maybe you will raise a question is it worth installing ufw on Amazon Linux? Some say that it’s enough to use the instance security groups but if you need some extra security on a serv...
In UFW, Dec 10, 2021 How to install Firewalld on Amazon Linux 2
Protecting your EC2 instance can be accomplished in multiple ways, setting up rules through the AWS security group or installing a firewall directly on your EC2 instance. Today I’m go...
In Firewalld, Dec 02, 2021
How to install Certbot on Amazon Linux 2
Using the AWS amazon linux 2 template for your EC2 instance is always a preferred way as an AWS-optimized and proprietary template. So if your web application requires an SSL certific...
In Certbot, Nov 26, 2021 How to install Nomad on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 instance
Working with popular orchestration application services like Kubernetes and ECS is not that easy as it seems when it comes to scaling the app, the deployments, and managing the resour...
In AWS, Nomad, Oct 13, 2021 How to install Terraform on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 instance
There are a lot of tutorials on how to install the latest version of Terraform out there. Most of them are pointing to the terraform official release site, so you need to get the late...
In AWS, Terraform, Oct 11, 2021 How to install Ansible on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 instance
When it comes to AWS hosted infrastructure, if there is a need for managing the instances or the deployments of the application/services you can use the approach of having one EC2 ded...
In AWS, Ansible, Oct 07, 2021 How to install Nginx on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 instance
Installing Nginx from the Amazon Linux repo will provide you with an exceedingly old Nginx version. Therefore, I will show you how to install it through the EPEL repo which is my pref...
In AWS, Nginx, Oct 05, 2021 How to install Podman on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 instance
If you are looking for a Docker replacement then Podman is the right choice for you. The installation process is quick and easy. In this tutorial, I’m gonna show you how to install po...
In AWS, Podman, Aug 10, 2021 proxy
How to setup Envoy proxy
Envoy is a minimalistic L7 proxy designed to be used along with the cloud native microservice applications. It’s an open-source container based project which can run on a minimum syst...
In Envoy, Sep 25, 2021 How to create Apache reverse proxy for your application
Creating Apache reverse proxy follows a similar procedure as Nginx. In some of the previous posts, we saw how to set up Nginx reverse proxy, so today I’m going to show you exactly the...
In Apache, Sep 23, 2021 How to set up Nginx reverse proxy for your application
Using Nginx reverse proxy could be very useful, especially if you are developing an application with a framework that can run its own server like nodejs, python, ruby on rails, etc… I...
In Nginx, Aug 14, 2021 reverse proxy
How to set up Nginx reverse proxy for your application
Using Nginx reverse proxy could be very useful, especially if you are developing an application with a framework that can run its own server like nodejs, python, ruby on rails, etc… I...
In Nginx, Aug 14, 2021 selinux
How to disable SELinux
You may face Nginx or Apache web server blocking issues even when your firewall is disabled. SELinux is a security engine that may block some of the calls or permissions on your serve...
In Linux, Aug 16, 2021 debian
How to update Visual Studio Code on Debian based distro
Some old VS Code versions are getting git issues, for instance, you are not able to pull or push to your repo due to authentication issues. If you try to authenticate through your Lin...
In Debian, Nov 22, 2021
How to install Logstash on Debian 11
Every data processing service needs a data processing pipeline that will help you to gather data from different sources. Nowadays Logstash is one of the most efficient and required da...
In Logstash, Nov 14, 2021
How to install Grafana on Debian 11
Seemingly some enterprise monitoring solutions look that they can be suitable for your infrastructure but afterwards it shows up that your expectations are not satisfied. There are a ...
In Grafana, Nov 10, 2021
How to install Terraform on Debian 11
Today I’ll be writing about terraform installation on Debian 11. The steps are pretty easy, so you just have to follow them and accomplish the installation process. Let’s hop in.
In Terraform, Nov 06, 2021 How to Setup GraphQL with Node.js on Debian based distro
To gather information from the REST API designed app you need to send requests to multiple REST endpoints. So this kind of approach is scattered across multiple endpoints. GraphQL sol...
In GraphQL, Oct 23, 2021
How to install Node JS on Debian 11
There are a few methods to install Node js on Debian 11. Using PPA Using NVM From the Debian official packagesI’m going to pick up the last one because it’s a quick and easy to ins...
In Nodejs, Oct 21, 2021
How to install Terragrunt on Debian 11
If you need to simplify the Terraform structure you can achieve it through Terragrunt. The crux is that you only need to define the Terraform modules and Terragrunt will take care of ...
In Terragrunt, Oct 19, 2021
How to install Nomad on Debian based distro
As a sequel of the Nomad installation series today I’m going to shed some light on how to install Nomad on every Debian-based distro. The installation process is quick and easy and th...
In Nomad, Oct 15, 2021
How to install Redis on Debian 11
Improving your site performance and caching your content can be achieved with Redis which stands as one of the most popular caching tools nowadays. How the complexity of the applicati...
In Redis, Sep 29, 2021 How to install Ruby on Debian 11
Ruby as a programming language belongs to the group with a high demand along with the other popular programming languages. Nowadays his framework ruby on rails is highly used by devel...
In Ruby, Sep 27, 2021
How to install Docker Compose on Debian 11
We previously saw how to install Docker on Debian 11. As a sequel, I’m going to round it off with the docker compose installation on Debian 11.
In Docker, Sep 15, 2021 How to install Nginx on Debian 11
Installing Nginx on Debian 11 is pretty easy and straightforward. This tutorial will show you how to install it and enable HTTP traffic on your debian server.
In Nginx, Aug 22, 2021 How to install Docker on Debian 11
Finally Debian 11 is released on August 14th, 2021, and this version is marked as a stable version. This tutorial will show you the steps on how to install Docker on a new fresh Debi...
In Docker, Aug 18, 2021 debian 11
How to install Logstash on Debian 11
Every data processing service needs a data processing pipeline that will help you to gather data from different sources. Nowadays Logstash is one of the most efficient and required da...
In Logstash, Nov 14, 2021 How to install Grafana on Debian 11
Seemingly some enterprise monitoring solutions look that they can be suitable for your infrastructure but afterwards it shows up that your expectations are not satisfied. There are a ...
In Grafana, Nov 10, 2021 How to install Terraform on Debian 11
Today I’ll be writing about terraform installation on Debian 11. The steps are pretty easy, so you just have to follow them and accomplish the installation process. Let’s hop in.
In Terraform, Nov 06, 2021 How to install Node JS on Debian 11
There are a few methods to install Node js on Debian 11. Using PPA Using NVM From the Debian official packagesI’m going to pick up the last one because it’s a quick and easy to ins...
In Nodejs, Oct 21, 2021 How to install Terragrunt on Debian 11
If you need to simplify the Terraform structure you can achieve it through Terragrunt. The crux is that you only need to define the Terraform modules and Terragrunt will take care of ...
In Terragrunt, Oct 19, 2021 How to install Docker Compose on Debian 11
We previously saw how to install Docker on Debian 11. As a sequel, I’m going to round it off with the docker compose installation on Debian 11.
In Docker, Sep 15, 2021 How to install Nginx on Debian 11
Installing Nginx on Debian 11 is pretty easy and straightforward. This tutorial will show you how to install it and enable HTTP traffic on your debian server.
In Nginx, Aug 22, 2021 How to install Docker on Debian 11
Finally Debian 11 is released on August 14th, 2021, and this version is marked as a stable version. This tutorial will show you the steps on how to install Docker on a new fresh Debi...
In Docker, Aug 18, 2021 github
GitHub hidden feature
There is a mind-blowing GitHub feature or if I can call it a “secret”, that I’ve just discovered and I need to share with you all.
In Github, Aug 19, 2021
mongodb
How to install MongoDB on Rocky Linux 8
MongoDB has an attitude to store the data in BSON, which can be searched and indexed, with a way better performance. Installing MongoDB on rocky linux can additionally improve the sea...
In MongoDB, Aug 20, 2021 registry
Docker Registry vs Docker Repository
Docker is one of that technologies that will probably stay for a while. In a matter of years, the IT world went from monolith to deploying applications on the edge in a couple of seco...
In Docker, Aug 23, 2021 jekyll
How to show future dated posts in Jekyll
By default, Jekyll doesn’t display posts with future dates. Sometimes we want to test them before publishing, and for that reason there is a plain solution.
In Jekyll, Jan 10, 2022
How to escape double curly braces in Jekyll
If you are using Jekyll for your blog site or writing some code documentation, you may face the issue with the double curly braces.Jekyll uses liquid tags, so if you are searching how...
In Jekyll, Aug 28, 2021
markdown
How to escape double curly braces in Jekyll
If you are using Jekyll for your blog site or writing some code documentation, you may face the issue with the double curly braces.Jekyll uses liquid tags, so if you are searching how...
In Jekyll, Aug 28, 2021 cors
How to enable CORS in Nginx
If you are trying to make API calls and you are getting the following error from nginx No Access-Control-Allow-Origin header is present on the requested resource you should definitely...
In Nginx, Sep 07, 2021 ddos
How to check if your web application is under DDoS attack
Nowadays, most of the web applications are vulnerable and exposed on many different kinds of attacks. One of them is a DDoS attack. There are a lot of services on the internet that ar...
In DDOS, Sep 11, 2021 imperative
Declarative vs Imperative Infrastructure as Code
With the uprising of Terraform in the last couple of years, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a popular and hot topic in the DevOps world. Managing and deploying infrastructure is all w...
In IaC, Sep 16, 2021 declarative
Declarative vs Imperative Infrastructure as Code
With the uprising of Terraform in the last couple of years, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a popular and hot topic in the DevOps world. Managing and deploying infrastructure is all w...
In IaC, Sep 16, 2021 iac
Declarative vs Imperative Infrastructure as Code
With the uprising of Terraform in the last couple of years, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is a popular and hot topic in the DevOps world. Managing and deploying infrastructure is all w...
In IaC, Sep 16, 2021 export
How to export and import all MySQL databases at once
Working with microservices will ramp up the number of MySQL databases. So if you need to create a backup for all of them at once there is a way to do it through the cli. Also importin...
In MySQL, Nov 12, 2021 How to export and import Elasticsearch Index with Docker
Synchronizing the ES index data between your prod, dev and local ES cluster environment is now achievable with docker. Moving the index data, mapping or analyzer can be done through t...
In Elasticsearch, Sep 17, 2021 import
How to export and import all MySQL databases at once
Working with microservices will ramp up the number of MySQL databases. So if you need to create a backup for all of them at once there is a way to do it through the cli. Also importin...
In MySQL, Nov 12, 2021 How to export and import Elasticsearch Index with Docker
Synchronizing the ES index data between your prod, dev and local ES cluster environment is now achievable with docker. Moving the index data, mapping or analyzer can be done through t...
In Elasticsearch, Sep 17, 2021 json
Convert Linux commands output from CSV to JSON
CSV to JSON conversion is commonly used in the Monitoring part of the DevOps cycle, usually when we need to gather some data, parse it, and ship it via some monitoring agent, like flu...
In Linux, Sep 18, 2021 lambda
How to make local archive_file to be available when deploying Terraform aws_lambda_function
In today’s blog post, I really need to share with you all a quick tip regarding Terraform’s aws_lambda_function resource and how to make the latest local data archive_file to be prese...
In Terraform, Sep 20, 2021 envoy
How to setup Envoy proxy
Envoy is a minimalistic L7 proxy designed to be used along with the cloud native microservice applications. It’s an open-source container based project which can run on a minimum syst...
In Envoy, Sep 25, 2021 ruby
How to check Ruby version
There are multiple ways you could find out which Ruby version you are running on your local machine.
In Ruby, Nov 11, 2021
Solution: Ignoring GEM because its extensions are not built
Solutions to common issues in Ruby dev environment series: Solution: cannot load such file – webrick (LoadError) Solution: gem eventmachine fatal error: ‘openssl/ssl.h’ file not fou...
In Ruby, Nov 09, 2021
Solution: Unknown ruby interpreter version (do not know how to handle): RUBY_VERSION
As a part of the solutions to common issues in Ruby dev environment series, here’s the link to the previous ones: Solution: cannot load such file – webrick (LoadError) Solution: gem...
In Ruby, Nov 07, 2021
Solution: gem eventmachine fatal error: 'openssl/ssl.h' file not found
I’ll be doing a solutions to common issues in Ruby dev environment series, so here’s the link to the first post: Solution: cannot load such file – webrick (LoadError)
In Ruby, Nov 05, 2021
Solution: cannot load such file -- webrick (LoadError)
As a DevOps engineer myself and three years of using a MacBook Pro, I’ve noticed that updating a major release of MacOS always comes with unwelcomed ruby dependencies and version erro...
In Ruby, Nov 03, 2021
Install Ruby on Mac
There are four ways to install Ruby on all computing platforms, including package management systems, installers, managers, and of course building from source. RVM as a Ruby version m...
In MacOS, Oct 30, 2021 How to install Ruby on Debian 11
Ruby as a programming language belongs to the group with a high demand along with the other popular programming languages. Nowadays his framework ruby on rails is highly used by devel...
In Ruby, Sep 27, 2021 remmina
Remmina can't remote into AWS EC2 Windows Machine due to libfreerdp
If you need to access your Windows-based server through your local Linux machine you should consider using some of the RDPs software. A few days ago I needed to access a Microsoft SQL...
In RDP, Oct 01, 2021 rdp
Remmina can't remote into AWS EC2 Windows Machine due to libfreerdp
If you need to access your Windows-based server through your local Linux machine you should consider using some of the RDPs software. A few days ago I needed to access a Microsoft SQL...
In RDP, Oct 01, 2021 libfreerdp
Remmina can't remote into AWS EC2 Windows Machine due to libfreerdp
If you need to access your Windows-based server through your local Linux machine you should consider using some of the RDPs software. A few days ago I needed to access a Microsoft SQL...
In RDP, Oct 01, 2021 windows server
Remmina can't remote into AWS EC2 Windows Machine due to libfreerdp
If you need to access your Windows-based server through your local Linux machine you should consider using some of the RDPs software. A few days ago I needed to access a Microsoft SQL...
In RDP, Oct 01, 2021 cloud computing
7 Ways to Save Money in the Cloud
Cost optimization is just one of the five pillars of Well-Architected Framework, which is identical across the top 3 public cloud provider players. Although, deploying a billing alarm...
In Cloud, Oct 02, 2021 cloud costs
7 Ways to Save Money in the Cloud
Cost optimization is just one of the five pillars of Well-Architected Framework, which is identical across the top 3 public cloud provider players. Although, deploying a billing alarm...
In Cloud, Oct 02, 2021 gcp
7 Ways to Save Money in the Cloud
Cost optimization is just one of the five pillars of Well-Architected Framework, which is identical across the top 3 public cloud provider players. Although, deploying a billing alarm...
In Cloud, Oct 02, 2021 drone ci
Add Drone CI Build Status to your Project
In some of the previous posts, I wrote about how to Send Drone CI build notifications with Slack.Here’s some quick steps on how to add the Drone CI build status to your favorite proje...
In Drone, Oct 08, 2021
Send Drone CI build notifications with Slack
The following post will be about sending Drone CI build notification to Slack. In case you didn’t know already, since there are dozen of CI/CD tools out there, Drone CI is an open sou...
In Drone, Oct 04, 2021
slack
Send Drone CI build notifications with Slack
The following post will be about sending Drone CI build notification to Slack. In case you didn’t know already, since there are dozen of CI/CD tools out there, Drone CI is an open sou...
In Drone, Oct 04, 2021 notifications
Send Drone CI build notifications with Slack
The following post will be about sending Drone CI build notification to Slack. In case you didn’t know already, since there are dozen of CI/CD tools out there, Drone CI is an open sou...
In Drone, Oct 04, 2021 ci/cd
Send Drone CI build notifications with Slack
The following post will be about sending Drone CI build notification to Slack. In case you didn’t know already, since there are dozen of CI/CD tools out there, Drone CI is an open sou...
In Drone, Oct 04, 2021 drone
Add Drone CI Build Status to your Project
In some of the previous posts, I wrote about how to Send Drone CI build notifications with Slack.Here’s some quick steps on how to add the Drone CI build status to your favorite proje...
In Drone, Oct 08, 2021 inodes
How to detect and free Inode Usage on Linux
While I was maintaining a monitoring service for an AWS-based infrastructure the service daemon stopped working. After some digging on the host where the service was hosted, I find ou...
In Linux, Oct 09, 2021 service endpoints
Service Endpoints vs Private Links in Azure
Microsoft Azure provides many different options to approach networking, starting from Azure VPN, ExpressRoute, Azure Route Server, NVAs, to name a few. These are more likely to be imp...
In Azure, Oct 10, 2021 private links
Service Endpoints vs Private Links in Azure
Microsoft Azure provides many different options to approach networking, starting from Azure VPN, ExpressRoute, Azure Route Server, NVAs, to name a few. These are more likely to be imp...
In Azure, Oct 10, 2021 root
5 Ways to Protect Root Account in the Cloud
Security as one of the Five Pillars of the Well-Architected Framework has been underlooked, not just in the age of the cloud computing but before that as well. With cloud migration be...
In Cloud, Oct 12, 2021 account
5 Ways to Protect Root Account in the Cloud
Security as one of the Five Pillars of the Well-Architected Framework has been underlooked, not just in the age of the cloud computing but before that as well. With cloud migration be...
In Cloud, Oct 12, 2021 nomad
How to install Nomad on Fedora based distro
Previously I covered the Nomad installation on the most frequently used Linux distros: Amazon Linux 2 Debian RHEL
In Nomad, Oct 27, 2021
How to install Nomad on RHEL based distro
As I mentioned in the previous topics I’m going to cover the Nomad installation on all popular Linux distros. So this tutorial will be aimed to show you how to install Nomad on RHEL b...
In Nomad, Oct 17, 2021
How to install Nomad on Debian based distro
As a sequel of the Nomad installation series today I’m going to shed some light on how to install Nomad on every Debian-based distro. The installation process is quick and easy and th...
In Nomad, Oct 15, 2021 How to install Nomad on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 instance
Working with popular orchestration application services like Kubernetes and ECS is not that easy as it seems when it comes to scaling the app, the deployments, and managing the resour...
In AWS, Nomad, Oct 13, 2021 rhel
How to install UFW on Amazon Linux 2
Maybe you will raise a question is it worth installing ufw on Amazon Linux? Some say that it’s enough to use the instance security groups but if you need some extra security on a serv...
In UFW, Dec 10, 2021 How to install UFW on Centos 7
Most of the RHEL linux distros are coming with pre-installed firewalld as a default firewall. But if you are UFW fan and you don’t want to waste your time or resources on getting fami...
In UFW, Dec 08, 2021
FirewallD allow MySQL remote access
On most of the RHEL based distributions, FirewallD comes as a default firewall and it’s configured to pass only ssh connections by default. Therefore in this tutorial, I’m going to sh...
In Firewalld, Dec 06, 2021 How to install Firewalld on Amazon Linux 2
Protecting your EC2 instance can be accomplished in multiple ways, setting up rules through the AWS security group or installing a firewall directly on your EC2 instance. Today I’m go...
In Firewalld, Dec 02, 2021 How to install Firewalld on Rocky Linux 8
Keeping your services and host itself secure is crucial. Nowadays there are a lot of attacks that can harm your host server, like brute force attacks, SQL injections, ssh, etc… So if ...
In Firewalld, Nov 30, 2021 How to install Certbot on Amazon Linux 2
Using the AWS amazon linux 2 template for your EC2 instance is always a preferred way as an AWS-optimized and proprietary template. So if your web application requires an SSL certific...
In Certbot, Nov 26, 2021 How to install Nomad on RHEL based distro
As I mentioned in the previous topics I’m going to cover the Nomad installation on all popular Linux distros. So this tutorial will be aimed to show you how to install Nomad on RHEL b...
In Nomad, Oct 17, 2021 How to install Nomad on AWS EC2 Amazon Linux 2 instance
Working with popular orchestration application services like Kubernetes and ECS is not that easy as it seems when it comes to scaling the app, the deployments, and managing the resour...
In AWS, Nomad, Oct 13, 2021 debian11
How to install Nomad on Debian based distro
As a sequel of the Nomad installation series today I’m going to shed some light on how to install Nomad on every Debian-based distro. The installation process is quick and easy and th...
In Nomad, Oct 15, 2021 cli
SFTP transfer files through command line non-interactive
This tutorial is aimed to show you how to download files from a remote sftp server and of course how to upload files to a remote sftp server. It’s useful if you are writing a bash or ...
In SFTP, Jan 13, 2022 How to connect with SFTP through command line
Most of the shared hosting platforms are providing sftp access to the end-users as a secure file transfer protocol. There are a lot of free and open source GUI platforms for ftp, sftp...
In SFTP, Jan 11, 2022 How to change permissions for Directories and Files recursively
Getting to know how to fix the directories and files permissions recursively, with a quick and easy method is always a good point. The crux of this tutorial is to understand how you c...
In Linux, Oct 25, 2021 Check Internet Speed from CLI on Linux
In this day and age, experiencing a slow internet connection could be a huge deal, especially for most of us who work remotely. Since we can do almost anything from the CLI, let’s sav...
In Linux, Oct 18, 2021 Get Public IP from CLI on Linux
Let’s speedrun the tutorial on how to get your public IP address from the command line interface for any whitelisting reason, on any Linux distro.
In Linux, Oct 16, 2021 How to install Nomad on Debian based distro
As a sequel of the Nomad installation series today I’m going to shed some light on how to install Nomad on every Debian-based distro. The installation process is quick and easy and th...
In Nomad, Oct 15, 2021 ip
Get Public IP from CLI on Linux
Let’s speedrun the tutorial on how to get your public IP address from the command line interface for any whitelisting reason, on any Linux distro.
In Linux, Oct 16, 2021 centos
How to install UFW on Centos 7
Most of the RHEL linux distros are coming with pre-installed firewalld as a default firewall. But if you are UFW fan and you don’t want to waste your time or resources on getting fami...
In UFW, Dec 08, 2021 How to install Nomad on RHEL based distro
As I mentioned in the previous topics I’m going to cover the Nomad installation on all popular Linux distros. So this tutorial will be aimed to show you how to install Nomad on RHEL b...
In Nomad, Oct 17, 2021 rockylinux
How to install Nomad on RHEL based distro
As I mentioned in the previous topics I’m going to cover the Nomad installation on all popular Linux distros. So this tutorial will be aimed to show you how to install Nomad on RHEL b...
In Nomad, Oct 17, 2021 internet
Check Internet Speed from CLI on Linux
In this day and age, experiencing a slow internet connection could be a huge deal, especially for most of us who work remotely. Since we can do almost anything from the CLI, let’s sav...
In Linux, Oct 18, 2021 speed
Check Internet Speed from CLI on Linux
In this day and age, experiencing a slow internet connection could be a huge deal, especially for most of us who work remotely. Since we can do almost anything from the CLI, let’s sav...
In Linux, Oct 18, 2021 terragrunt
How to install Terragrunt on Ubuntu
Working with terragrunt as a terraform wrapper will ease things and simplify the terraform templates. Here I will show you how to set up quickly on your Ubuntu machine.
In Terragrunt, Nov 24, 2021 How to install Terragrunt on Debian 11
If you need to simplify the Terraform structure you can achieve it through Terragrunt. The crux is that you only need to define the Terraform modules and Terragrunt will take care of ...
In Terragrunt, Oct 19, 2021 code
Resolve (code=exited, status=2) in Nginx
Sometimes after nginx service restart and you’re trying to get the service status, you might get the following status code line:Process: 10316 ExecStop=/sbin/start-stop-daemon --quiet...
In Linux, Oct 20, 2021 exited
Resolve (code=exited, status=2) in Nginx
Sometimes after nginx service restart and you’re trying to get the service status, you might get the following status code line:Process: 10316 ExecStop=/sbin/start-stop-daemon --quiet...
In Linux, Oct 20, 2021 status
Resolve (code=exited, status=2) in Nginx
Sometimes after nginx service restart and you’re trying to get the service status, you might get the following status code line:Process: 10316 ExecStop=/sbin/start-stop-daemon --quiet...
In Linux, Oct 20, 2021 node js
How to install Node JS on Debian 11
There are a few methods to install Node js on Debian 11. Using PPA Using NVM From the Debian official packagesI’m going to pick up the last one because it’s a quick and easy to ins...
In Nodejs, Oct 21, 2021 nodejs
Setup Nginx Proxy for Node.js app
Behind every major player in the cloud provider’s field, there is a hidden “magic” that makes our applications work. Most of the time, this magic is some kind of a proxy, mostly Nginx...
In Nginx, Oct 22, 2021 node.js
How to Setup GraphQL with Node.js on Debian based distro
To gather information from the REST API designed app you need to send requests to multiple REST endpoints. So this kind of approach is scattered across multiple endpoints. GraphQL sol...
In GraphQL, Oct 23, 2021 graphql
How to Setup GraphQL with Node.js on Debian based distro
To gather information from the REST API designed app you need to send requests to multiple REST endpoints. So this kind of approach is scattered across multiple endpoints. GraphQL sol...
In GraphQL, Oct 23, 2021 container
How to restart a single container with docker-compose
Restarting docker-compose stack (docker-compose restart) it’s pretty easy and convinient, and if you somehow screw up something, docker-compose down/up will take care of it. But, now ...
In Docker, Jan 22, 2022 Assign Static IP to a Docker Container
There are two types of static IPs, public and private IP addresses. We all know the public IP Docker mapping by now, using Nginx and port mapping. Today we are going to see how can we...
In Docker, Oct 24, 2021 static ip
Assign Static IP to a Docker Container
There are two types of static IPs, public and private IP addresses. We all know the public IP Docker mapping by now, using Nginx and port mapping. Today we are going to see how can we...
In Docker, Oct 24, 2021 find
How to change permissions for Directories and Files recursively
Getting to know how to fix the directories and files permissions recursively, with a quick and easy method is always a good point. The crux of this tutorial is to understand how you c...
In Linux, Oct 25, 2021 access key
Solution: The AWS Access Key Id Does Not Exist in our Records
Working with multiple AWS account profiles could sometimes be not so pleasent experience, especially when handling different AWS named profiles for different purposes. The AWS Access ...
In AWS, Oct 26, 2021 credentials
Solution: The AWS Access Key Id Does Not Exist in our Records
Working with multiple AWS account profiles could sometimes be not so pleasent experience, especially when handling different AWS named profiles for different purposes. The AWS Access ...
In AWS, Oct 26, 2021 fedora
How to install Nomad on Fedora based distro
Previously I covered the Nomad installation on the most frequently used Linux distros: Amazon Linux 2 Debian RHEL
In Nomad, Oct 27, 2021 infrastructure
Ways to Provision Infrastructure on Azure
Last week I wrote about the different Ways to Provision Infrastructure on AWS, and as you might expected I’m doing another one, but this time it’s all Azure.
In Azure, Nov 01, 2021 Ways to Provision Infrastructure on AWS
Popular as it is, Infrastructure as Code also known as IaC, is a practice and process of managing and deploying infrastructure through code. Now, we got the flexibility to choose from...
In AWS, Oct 28, 2021 iaac
Ways to Provision Infrastructure on Azure
Last week I wrote about the different Ways to Provision Infrastructure on AWS, and as you might expected I’m doing another one, but this time it’s all Azure.
In Azure, Nov 01, 2021 Ways to Provision Infrastructure on AWS
Popular as it is, Infrastructure as Code also known as IaC, is a practice and process of managing and deploying infrastructure through code. Now, we got the flexibility to choose from...
In AWS, Oct 28, 2021 brew
Install Visual Studio Code on Mac
Vscode is considered as one of the most used code editors nowadays. In this brief tutorial I will show you how to install it on Mac using Homebrew.
In MacOS, Nov 04, 2021 Install Ruby on Mac
There are four ways to install Ruby on all computing platforms, including package management systems, installers, managers, and of course building from source. RVM as a Ruby version m...
In MacOS, Oct 30, 2021 rvm
Install Ruby on Mac
There are four ways to install Ruby on all computing platforms, including package management systems, installers, managers, and of course building from source. RVM as a Ruby version m...
In MacOS, Oct 30, 2021 skype
Install Skype on Mac
Skype as a world-known VoIP based software can be installed in multiple ways on Mac. Today I’m going to pick up one of the preferable ways of doing it, which is the easiest and the qu...
In MacOS, Oct 31, 2021 aurora
How to resolve AWS Aurora ERROR 3024 (HY000)
If you hold some heavy-load AWS Aurora database tables and you are trying to export some of the tables or import data, there is a big chance to face the following error ERROR 3024 (HY...
In AWS, Aurora, Nov 02, 2021 rds
How to resolve AWS Aurora ERROR 3024 (HY000)
If you hold some heavy-load AWS Aurora database tables and you are trying to export some of the tables or import data, there is a big chance to face the following error ERROR 3024 (HY...
In AWS, Aurora, Nov 02, 2021 vscode
Install Visual Studio Code on Mac
Vscode is considered as one of the most used code editors nowadays. In this brief tutorial I will show you how to install it on Mac using Homebrew.
In MacOS, Nov 04, 2021 rabbitmq
Resolve RabbitMQ Node statistics not available in Cluster Node
Setting up RabbitMQ cluster with master and slave instances can invoke some node destabilizations like the error Node statistics not available. Here I’m going to show you few steps h...
In RabbitMQ, Nov 08, 2021
rabbitmq-exchange
Resolve RabbitMQ Node statistics not available in Cluster Node
Setting up RabbitMQ cluster with master and slave instances can invoke some node destabilizations like the error Node statistics not available. Here I’m going to show you few steps h...
In RabbitMQ, Nov 08, 2021 rabbitmqctl
Resolve RabbitMQ Node statistics not available in Cluster Node
Setting up RabbitMQ cluster with master and slave instances can invoke some node destabilizations like the error Node statistics not available. Here I’m going to show you few steps h...
In RabbitMQ, Nov 08, 2021 grafana
How to install Grafana on Debian 11
Seemingly some enterprise monitoring solutions look that they can be suitable for your infrastructure but afterwards it shows up that your expectations are not satisfied. There are a ...
In Grafana, Nov 10, 2021 apple
How to Install Apple Command Line Tools
Apple Command Line Tools are part of the Xcode, the official integrated development environment (IDE) for MacOS. The installation is a one-liner, so let’s just jump right into it.
In MacOS, Nov 13, 2021 command
How to Install Apple Command Line Tools
Apple Command Line Tools are part of the Xcode, the official integrated development environment (IDE) for MacOS. The installation is a one-liner, so let’s just jump right into it.
In MacOS, Nov 13, 2021 line
How to Install Apple Command Line Tools
Apple Command Line Tools are part of the Xcode, the official integrated development environment (IDE) for MacOS. The installation is a one-liner, so let’s just jump right into it.
In MacOS, Nov 13, 2021 tools
How to Install Apple Command Line Tools
Apple Command Line Tools are part of the Xcode, the official integrated development environment (IDE) for MacOS. The installation is a one-liner, so let’s just jump right into it.
In MacOS, Nov 13, 2021 logstash
Protect Elasticsearch stack from Apache Log4j vulnerability
As the Apache Log4j vulnerability is growing massively and its spread all over the internet a lot of worldwide companies are affected mostly on their java based applications. Elastics...
In Elasticsearch, Dec 16, 2021 How to install Logstash on Debian 11
Every data processing service needs a data processing pipeline that will help you to gather data from different sources. Nowadays Logstash is one of the most efficient and required da...
In Logstash, Nov 14, 2021 symfony
How to execute MySQL DB migrations with Symfony and Doctrine
If you are working on infrastructure with a lot of microservices as a developer you may face difficulties executing SQL queries in terms of keeping database structure clean and safe c...
In Symfony, MySQL, Nov 16, 2021 doctrine
How to execute MySQL DB migrations with Symfony and Doctrine
If you are working on infrastructure with a lot of microservices as a developer you may face difficulties executing SQL queries in terms of keeping database structure clean and safe c...
In Symfony, MySQL, Nov 16, 2021 network
How to fix Docker can't start service network not found
If you have already created a docker-compose stack and you are trying to restart the containers or start them you may face Docker error: Cannot start service ..: network $network-id n...
In Docker, Nov 18, 2021 zsh
Which shell am I using - how to check
Linux comes with support for multiple flavors of shell, including bash, zsh, ksh, csh, and so on. This time I’ll be focusing on how to find out which shell you are using, which is the...
In Linux, Nov 21, 2021 How to reload shell session
In order to update and see changes made in the shell environment, most of the time a reload is required. So, instead of restarting the machine and wasting a lot of time, a simple comm...
In Linux, Nov 19, 2021 shell
Which shell am I using - how to check
Linux comes with support for multiple flavors of shell, including bash, zsh, ksh, csh, and so on. This time I’ll be focusing on how to find out which shell you are using, which is the...
In Linux, Nov 21, 2021 How to reload shell session
In order to update and see changes made in the shell environment, most of the time a reload is required. So, instead of restarting the machine and wasting a lot of time, a simple comm...
In Linux, Nov 19, 2021 cicd
Jenkins - same workspace for multiple jobs
In order to save some space on your Jenkins instance or if you need to create some backup jobs for multiple environments, you will need to enable shared space between multiple jobs. I...
In Jenkins, Nov 20, 2021 vs code
How to update Visual Studio Code on Debian based distro
Some old VS Code versions are getting git issues, for instance, you are not able to pull or push to your repo due to authentication issues. If you try to authenticate through your Lin...
In Debian, Nov 22, 2021 mtime
mtime timestamp and the 24h period cheatsheet
For those who might be questioning, mtime or short for modified timestamp, is a Linux file timestamp which usually goes hand in hand with the find command in the most common scenarios...
In Linux, Nov 23, 2021 flock
File locking with flock 101
As a concept, file locking in Linux purpose is to control access to a shared resource between multiple processes, in a way to indicate which process is next in line so it could use th...
In Linux, Nov 25, 2021 ssl
Certbot auto renew SSL certificate creating a cron job
If you are using a free SSL certificate from certbot, probably you are tired of the manual renewal. Here I’m going to show you how to automate the process of creating a cron job that ...
In Certbot, Jan 19, 2022 Redirect HTTP to HTTPS in Apache
Securing your website by setting redirect from HTTP to HTTPS in Apache can be achieved easily if your SSL certificate is generated and ready to use. It can be done using a virtual hos...
In Nginx, Dec 28, 2021 Redirect HTTP to HTTPS in Nginx
Nowadays almost every owner of a website wants to secure his site with an SSL certificate. Once that is achieved the second step is to redirect the whole HTTP traffic to HTTPS dependi...
In Nginx, Dec 26, 2021 How to list, renew and delete Certbot certificates
Managing certbot certificates is often a underlooked operation since Certbot handles cert renewal automatically using a cronjob, so no worries there. But, what if we want to list whic...
In Certbot, Dec 03, 2021 How to secure Domain with Let's Encrypt SSL certificate on Amazon Linux 2
As a sequel to the previous topic where we saw how to install Certbot on Amazon Linux 2, here I’m going to show you how to secure your domain with a free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate...
In Certbot, Nov 28, 2021 letsencrypt
How to secure Domain with Let's Encrypt SSL certificate on Amazon Linux 2
As a sequel to the previous topic where we saw how to install Certbot on Amazon Linux 2, here I’m going to show you how to secure your domain with a free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate...
In Certbot, Nov 28, 2021 amazon linux 2
How to install Firewalld on Amazon Linux 2
Protecting your EC2 instance can be accomplished in multiple ways, setting up rules through the AWS security group or installing a firewall directly on your EC2 instance. Today I’m go...
In Firewalld, Dec 02, 2021 How to secure Domain with Let's Encrypt SSL certificate on Amazon Linux 2
As a sequel to the previous topic where we saw how to install Certbot on Amazon Linux 2, here I’m going to show you how to secure your domain with a free Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate...
In Certbot, Nov 28, 2021 firewalld
FirewallD allow MySQL remote access
On most of the RHEL based distributions, FirewallD comes as a default firewall and it’s configured to pass only ssh connections by default. Therefore in this tutorial, I’m going to sh...
In Firewalld, Dec 06, 2021 How to install Firewalld on Amazon Linux 2
Protecting your EC2 instance can be accomplished in multiple ways, setting up rules through the AWS security group or installing a firewall directly on your EC2 instance. Today I’m go...
In Firewalld, Dec 02, 2021 How to install Firewalld on Rocky Linux 8
Keeping your services and host itself secure is crucial. Nowadays there are a lot of attacks that can harm your host server, like brute force attacks, SQL injections, ssh, etc… So if ...
In Firewalld, Nov 30, 2021 rocky linux 8
How to install Firewalld on Rocky Linux 8
Keeping your services and host itself secure is crucial. Nowadays there are a lot of attacks that can harm your host server, like brute force attacks, SQL injections, ssh, etc… So if ...
In Firewalld, Nov 30, 2021 curl
Add jq and curl on Alpine Docker image
The official Alpine Docker Image doesn’t contain jq and curl by default. If you need to parse some JSON content or perform some curl checks, you can add them in the Dockerfile that is...
In Docker, Jan 05, 2022 How to download files with curl
curl and wget are the most popular command-line tools (with curl being a library) for downloading remote content from the CLI. On one side, wget is simple to use as it gets, downloadi...
In Linux, Dec 01, 2021 certificates
How to list, renew and delete Certbot certificates
Managing certbot certificates is often a underlooked operation since Certbot handles cert renewal automatically using a cronjob, so no worries there. But, what if we want to list whic...
In Certbot, Dec 03, 2021 tls
How to list, renew and delete Certbot certificates
Managing certbot certificates is often a underlooked operation since Certbot handles cert renewal automatically using a cronjob, so no worries there. But, what if we want to list whic...
In Certbot, Dec 03, 2021 composer
How to install PHP composer within Dockerfile
Dockerizing your PHP application probably would require some external commands within your base docker image. That’s why you will need to have a Dockerfile and put all the additional ...
In Docker, Dec 04, 2021 dockerfile
Add jq and curl on Alpine Docker image
The official Alpine Docker Image doesn’t contain jq and curl by default. If you need to parse some JSON content or perform some curl checks, you can add them in the Dockerfile that is...
In Docker, Jan 05, 2022 How to install PHP composer within Dockerfile
Dockerizing your PHP application probably would require some external commands within your base docker image. That’s why you will need to have a Dockerfile and put all the additional ...
In Docker, Dec 04, 2021 disaster
Disaster Recovery 101: RPO vs RTO
RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and RTO (Recovery Time Objective) are two of the most crucial and key parameters as part of a disaster recovery plan. Even though RTO and RPO sound alik...
In DR, Dec 05, 2021
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Disaster Recovery 101: RPO vs RTO
RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and RTO (Recovery Time Objective) are two of the most crucial and key parameters as part of a disaster recovery plan. Even though RTO and RPO sound alik...
In DR, Dec 05, 2021 rto
Disaster Recovery 101: RPO vs RTO
RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and RTO (Recovery Time Objective) are two of the most crucial and key parameters as part of a disaster recovery plan. Even though RTO and RPO sound alik...
In DR, Dec 05, 2021 rpo
Disaster Recovery 101: RPO vs RTO
RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and RTO (Recovery Time Objective) are two of the most crucial and key parameters as part of a disaster recovery plan. Even though RTO and RPO sound alik...
In DR, Dec 05, 2021 expose
Expose vs Publish ports in Docker
The general idea for communication between microservices (whatever is HTTP, message or event-driven communication) is related to certain protocols and ports on which each microservice...
In Docker, Dec 07, 2021 publish
Expose vs Publish ports in Docker
The general idea for communication between microservices (whatever is HTTP, message or event-driven communication) is related to certain protocols and ports on which each microservice...
In Docker, Dec 07, 2021 ports
Expose vs Publish ports in Docker
The general idea for communication between microservices (whatever is HTTP, message or event-driven communication) is related to certain protocols and ports on which each microservice...
In Docker, Dec 07, 2021 ufw
How to install UFW on Amazon Linux 2
Maybe you will raise a question is it worth installing ufw on Amazon Linux? Some say that it’s enough to use the instance security groups but if you need some extra security on a serv...
In UFW, Dec 10, 2021 How to install UFW on Centos 7
Most of the RHEL linux distros are coming with pre-installed firewalld as a default firewall. But if you are UFW fan and you don’t want to waste your time or resources on getting fami...
In UFW, Dec 08, 2021 centos 7
How to Install Podman Compose on Centos 7
When it comes to installing podman-compose on centos 7 it follows the same procedure as on the other rhel based distros and there are three ways to achieve it. You only need to make s...
In Podman, Jan 15, 2022 How to install UFW on Centos 7
Most of the RHEL linux distros are coming with pre-installed firewalld as a default firewall. But if you are UFW fan and you don’t want to waste your time or resources on getting fami...
In UFW, Dec 08, 2021 state
Access host network from inside of a Docker container
This might be a really weird or edge case scenario, but what If we need to access host service(s) from inside a Docker container. For instance, we already have configured and running ...
In Docker, Dec 11, 2021 Refreshing Terraform state
Refreshing Terraform state is done by adding the -refresh-only flag (since terraform refresh is depricated) when running plan and apply operations. To start off, what does it mean and...
In Terraform, Dec 09, 2021 aws-alb
AWS|How to allow source IP addresses to access specific URL path using an Application Load Balancer
Most likely, if you use ECS as your application orchestration service it will require some basic knowledge to manage Application Load Balancers short ALBs. Essentially managing the ac...
In AWS, Dec 12, 2021 load balancer
AWS|How to allow source IP addresses to access specific URL path using an Application Load Balancer
Most likely, if you use ECS as your application orchestration service it will require some basic knowledge to manage Application Load Balancers short ALBs. Essentially managing the ac...
In AWS, Dec 12, 2021 windows 10
Install Podman on Windows 10
The trick for installation and running Podman on Windows 10 follows the same idea as Install Docker on Windows 10 without Docker Desktop.
In Podman, Dec 15, 2021 Install Docker on Windows 10 without Docker Desktop
In today’s topic I’m gonna cover on how to install and run Docker on Windows 10 without Docker Desktop. This means we’ll be using WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux).
In Docker, Dec 13, 2021 log4j
Scan Docker Images for Apache Log4j2 vulnerability
Docker Hub already announced public Log4jShell detection which is now live on Docker Official Images. But for those of you who are still using some of the old or custom images, there ...
In Docker, Dec 20, 2021 Protect Elasticsearch stack from Apache Log4j vulnerability
As the Apache Log4j vulnerability is growing massively and its spread all over the internet a lot of worldwide companies are affected mostly on their java based applications. Elastics...
In Elasticsearch, Dec 16, 2021 How to check Apache Log4j vulnerability in Jenkins
There are a lot of open forums and discussions due to the Log4j zero-day flaw these days. Log4j is an open-source java-based library developed by Apache Software Foundation and it’s u...
In Jenkins, Dec 14, 2021 vulnerability
Protect Elasticsearch stack from Apache Log4j vulnerability
As the Apache Log4j vulnerability is growing massively and its spread all over the internet a lot of worldwide companies are affected mostly on their java based applications. Elastics...
In Elasticsearch, Dec 16, 2021 windows 11
Install Podman on Windows 11
The installation guide for running Podman on Windows 11 follows the same idea as Install Docker on Windows 11 without Docker Desktop.
In Podman, Dec 31, 2021 Install Docker on Windows 11 without Docker Desktop
As with Windows 10, let’s see how we could install Docker on Windows 11 without GUI.
In Docker, Dec 27, 2021 How to install Windows 11 on VirtualBox
Windows 11 has been out there for almost 3 months, so let’s see how good the virtualbox installation will go.
In Windows 11, Dec 21, 2021 How to fix Windows 11 'does not meet the requirements' error on VirtualBox
As with most of the new OS releases on Mac, Windows or Linux, my best practice is to test them first in a virtual environment, usually using VirtualBox. The reason you might stumble u...
In Windows 11, Dec 17, 2021 dns
Install dig and nslookup on Alpine Linux
Deploying docker containers based on alpine images or using alpine on your server is always a good idea as it’s a small, simple Linux OS. But if you want to perform some DNS checks yo...
In DNS, Jan 03, 2022
How to create CNAME for root domain
Working as a cloud engineer you may ask yourself, is it possible to create a CNAME record for your root domain? The answer will be no for most of the hosting providers but that’s not ...
In DNS, Dec 18, 2021
domain
How to create CNAME for root domain
Working as a cloud engineer you may ask yourself, is it possible to create a CNAME record for your root domain? The answer will be no for most of the hosting providers but that’s not ...
In DNS, Dec 18, 2021 cloudflare
How to create CNAME for root domain
Working as a cloud engineer you may ask yourself, is it possible to create a CNAME record for your root domain? The answer will be no for most of the hosting providers but that’s not ...
In DNS, Dec 18, 2021 cname record
How to create CNAME for root domain
Working as a cloud engineer you may ask yourself, is it possible to create a CNAME record for your root domain? The answer will be no for most of the hosting providers but that’s not ...
In DNS, Dec 18, 2021 postman
How to install Postman on Ubuntu 20.04
There are some ways to install Postman on Ubuntu 20.04. As always, we want to keep the work simple and straight to the point. So I’m going to show you the easiest way to install Postm...
In Ubuntu, Dec 22, 2021 ubuntu 20.04
Install Podman Compose on Ubuntu 20.04
Installation of podman-compose on ubuntu 20.04 is pretty simple, quick, and can be achieved in three ways. Before jumping on the installation part make sure that you have python3 and ...
In Podman, Jan 09, 2022 How to install Postman on Ubuntu 20.04
There are some ways to install Postman on Ubuntu 20.04. As always, we want to keep the work simple and straight to the point. So I’m going to show you the easiest way to install Postm...
In Ubuntu, Dec 22, 2021 oracle
Run Always Free Instances in the Oracle Cloud
I wouldn’t place Oracle Cloud in my top 5 cloud providers list, and as we know the cloud isn’t cheap nor free, but it seems that Oracle are stepping up the competitive game by offerin...
In Oracle, Dec 25, 2021
redirect
Redirect HTTP to HTTPS in Apache
Securing your website by setting redirect from HTTP to HTTPS in Apache can be achieved easily if your SSL certificate is generated and ready to use. It can be done using a virtual hos...
In Nginx, Dec 28, 2021 Redirect HTTP to HTTPS in Nginx
Nowadays almost every owner of a website wants to secure his site with an SSL certificate. Once that is achieved the second step is to redirect the whole HTTP traffic to HTTPS dependi...
In Nginx, Dec 26, 2021 http
Redirect HTTP to HTTPS in Apache
Securing your website by setting redirect from HTTP to HTTPS in Apache can be achieved easily if your SSL certificate is generated and ready to use. It can be done using a virtual hos...
In Nginx, Dec 28, 2021 Redirect HTTP to HTTPS in Nginx
Nowadays almost every owner of a website wants to secure his site with an SSL certificate. Once that is achieved the second step is to redirect the whole HTTP traffic to HTTPS dependi...
In Nginx, Dec 26, 2021 https
Redirect HTTP to HTTPS in Apache
Securing your website by setting redirect from HTTP to HTTPS in Apache can be achieved easily if your SSL certificate is generated and ready to use. It can be done using a virtual hos...
In Nginx, Dec 28, 2021 Redirect HTTP to HTTPS in Nginx
Nowadays almost every owner of a website wants to secure his site with an SSL certificate. Once that is achieved the second step is to redirect the whole HTTP traffic to HTTPS dependi...
In Nginx, Dec 26, 2021 httpd
Redirect HTTP to HTTPS in Apache
Securing your website by setting redirect from HTTP to HTTPS in Apache can be achieved easily if your SSL certificate is generated and ready to use. It can be done using a virtual hos...
In Nginx, Dec 28, 2021 decrypt
Decrypt iam_user_login_profile password in Terraform
It’s almost always not a good idea to decrypt aws_iam_user_login_profile password to Terraform output since there are better approaches, which will not be covered in this topic today....
In Terraform, Dec 29, 2021 password
Create AWS IAM User Login Profile with PGP encrypted password in Terraform
Managing and deploying AWS IAM User Login Profiles in Terraform requires a base-64 encoded PGP public key or a keybase, as stated in the official documentation. But, there is no info ...
In Terraform, Jan 04, 2022 Decrypt iam_user_login_profile password in Terraform
It’s almost always not a good idea to decrypt aws_iam_user_login_profile password to Terraform output since there are better approaches, which will not be covered in this topic today....
In Terraform, Dec 29, 2021 vpc
AWS Associate VPC with Private Hosted Zone
Working with multiple AWS accounts can lead to timeouts between the different account services. Behind the VPC peering and the routing table connection, a very important thing is to s...
In AWS, Dec 30, 2021 route 53
AWS Associate VPC with Private Hosted Zone
Working with multiple AWS accounts can lead to timeouts between the different account services. Behind the VPC peering and the routing table connection, a very important thing is to s...
In AWS, Dec 30, 2021 wordpress
Change WordPress Domain URL through WP-CLI
While migrating your WordPress site or syncing the production database with staging you need to change the domain URL from the database. Instead of crawling within the WP database, I ...
In WordPress, Jan 01, 2022
wp cli
Change WordPress Domain URL through WP-CLI
While migrating your WordPress site or syncing the production database with staging you need to change the domain URL from the database. Instead of crawling within the WP database, I ...
In WordPress, Jan 01, 2022 ssm
Resolve AWS SSM plugin with name Standard_Stream not found
AWS SSM is a nice feature if you don’t wanna deal with majority of the SSH issues along the way. Today’s topic is all about resolving the:SessionId: devcoops-<some_string>: Plug...
In AWS, Jan 02, 2022 plugin
Resolve AWS SSM plugin with name Standard_Stream not found
AWS SSM is a nice feature if you don’t wanna deal with majority of the SSH issues along the way. Today’s topic is all about resolving the:SessionId: devcoops-<some_string>: Plug...
In AWS, Jan 02, 2022 standard_stream
Resolve AWS SSM plugin with name Standard_Stream not found
AWS SSM is a nice feature if you don’t wanna deal with majority of the SSH issues along the way. Today’s topic is all about resolving the:SessionId: devcoops-<some_string>: Plug...
In AWS, Jan 02, 2022 dig
Install dig and nslookup on Alpine Linux
Deploying docker containers based on alpine images or using alpine on your server is always a good idea as it’s a small, simple Linux OS. But if you want to perform some DNS checks yo...
In DNS, Jan 03, 2022 nslookup
Install dig and nslookup on Alpine Linux
Deploying docker containers based on alpine images or using alpine on your server is always a good idea as it’s a small, simple Linux OS. But if you want to perform some DNS checks yo...
In DNS, Jan 03, 2022 alpine
Install dig and nslookup on Alpine Linux
Deploying docker containers based on alpine images or using alpine on your server is always a good idea as it’s a small, simple Linux OS. But if you want to perform some DNS checks yo...
In DNS, Jan 03, 2022 iam
Create AWS IAM User Login Profile with PGP encrypted password in Terraform
Managing and deploying AWS IAM User Login Profiles in Terraform requires a base-64 encoded PGP public key or a keybase, as stated in the official documentation. But, there is no info ...
In Terraform, Jan 04, 2022 user login profile
Create AWS IAM User Login Profile with PGP encrypted password in Terraform
Managing and deploying AWS IAM User Login Profiles in Terraform requires a base-64 encoded PGP public key or a keybase, as stated in the official documentation. But, there is no info ...
In Terraform, Jan 04, 2022 pgp
Create AWS IAM User Login Profile with PGP encrypted password in Terraform
Managing and deploying AWS IAM User Login Profiles in Terraform requires a base-64 encoded PGP public key or a keybase, as stated in the official documentation. But, there is no info ...
In Terraform, Jan 04, 2022 jq
Add jq and curl on Alpine Docker image
The official Alpine Docker Image doesn’t contain jq and curl by default. If you need to parse some JSON content or perform some curl checks, you can add them in the Dockerfile that is...
In Docker, Jan 05, 2022 alpine linux
Add jq and curl on Alpine Docker image
The official Alpine Docker Image doesn’t contain jq and curl by default. If you need to parse some JSON content or perform some curl checks, you can add them in the Dockerfile that is...
In Docker, Jan 05, 2022 slack notifications
Send Slack notifications from a Bash script
Slack is one of the most popular and used messaging apps by companies of any kind of business size, from small companies and startups to large enterprises. From DevOps point of view, ...
In Linux, Jan 06, 2022 podman compose
How to Install Podman Compose on Centos 7
When it comes to installing podman-compose on centos 7 it follows the same procedure as on the other rhel based distros and there are three ways to achieve it. You only need to make s...
In Podman, Jan 15, 2022 Install Podman Compose on Ubuntu 20.04
Installation of podman-compose on ubuntu 20.04 is pretty simple, quick, and can be achieved in three ways. Before jumping on the installation part make sure that you have python3 and ...
In Podman, Jan 09, 2022 Install Podman Compose on Amazon Linux
As the podman is becoming a suitable way for replacing docker he also offers a compose file for managing multiple services as docker-compose. There are three ways to install it and I’...
In Podman, Jan 07, 2022 azure portal
Configure auto logout from the Azure Portal
In case you didn’t know by now, Azure Portal offers a decent ammount of customization, including option to auto logout after a period of time.
In Azure, Jan 08, 2022
auto logout
Configure auto logout from the Azure Portal
In case you didn’t know by now, Azure Portal offers a decent ammount of customization, including option to auto logout after a period of time.
In Azure, Jan 08, 2022 future posts
How to show future dated posts in Jekyll
By default, Jekyll doesn’t display posts with future dates. Sometimes we want to test them before publishing, and for that reason there is a plain solution.
In Jekyll, Jan 10, 2022 sftp
SFTP transfer files through command line non-interactive
This tutorial is aimed to show you how to download files from a remote sftp server and of course how to upload files to a remote sftp server. It’s useful if you are writing a bash or ...
In SFTP, Jan 13, 2022 How to connect with SFTP through command line
Most of the shared hosting platforms are providing sftp access to the end-users as a secure file transfer protocol. There are a lot of free and open source GUI platforms for ftp, sftp...
In SFTP, Jan 11, 2022 ip ranges
How to get regional Azure public IP address ranges
Public Azure cloud IP ranges and service tags could be important thing when working with services and NSGs (Network Security Groups). The list could be downloaded as a JSON file in a ...
In Azure, Jan 12, 2022 nofile limit
How to increase the open files limit in Linux
The default open files (nofile) limit is 1024. Let’s see how we could confirm and increase it on user and system-wide level.
In Linux, Jan 16, 2022 ulimit
How to increase the open files limit in Linux
The default open files (nofile) limit is 1024. Let’s see how we could confirm and increase it on user and system-wide level.
In Linux, Jan 16, 2022 scale
How to scale docker containers
When it comes working with an master - replica services docker offers a scaling compose command which is very useful. Here I’m going to show you how to use it with an example.
In Docker, Jan 17, 2022 docker scale
How to scale docker containers
When it comes working with an master - replica services docker offers a scaling compose command which is very useful. Here I’m going to show you how to use it with an example.
In Docker, Jan 17, 2022 http2
How to enable HTTP/2 in Nginx
HTTP/2 was published almost 7 years ago, HTTP/3 being an internet draft standard since October 2020, and yet here we are, most of us still using HTTP/1.1. Considering how things quick...
In Nginx, Jan 18, 2022 renew
Certbot auto renew SSL certificate creating a cron job
If you are using a free SSL certificate from certbot, probably you are tired of the manual renewal. Here I’m going to show you how to automate the process of creating a cron job that ...
In Certbot, Jan 19, 2022 cron job
Certbot auto renew SSL certificate creating a cron job
If you are using a free SSL certificate from certbot, probably you are tired of the manual renewal. Here I’m going to show you how to automate the process of creating a cron job that ...
In Certbot, Jan 19, 2022 k8s
Multiple ways to run Kubernetes clusters locally
Kubernetes, the most popular container orchestration platform out there, needs no introduction. Let’s explore a couple of ways and tools on deploying K8s clusters on your local machine.
In Kubernetes, Jan 20, 2022 local cluster
Multiple ways to run Kubernetes clusters locally
Kubernetes, the most popular container orchestration platform out there, needs no introduction. Let’s explore a couple of ways and tools on deploying K8s clusters on your local machine.
In Kubernetes, Jan 20, 2022 process
Docker Container run in background
While running a docker container in detached mode d maybe you have experienced exiting the container immediately. Here I’m going to show you some ways how to keep it running in the ba...
In Docker, Jan 21, 2022 tail
Docker Container run in background
While running a docker container in detached mode d maybe you have experienced exiting the container immediately. Here I’m going to show you some ways how to keep it running in the ba...
In Docker, Jan 21, 2022 restart
How to restart a single container with docker-compose
Restarting docker-compose stack (docker-compose restart) it’s pretty easy and convinient, and if you somehow screw up something, docker-compose down/up will take care of it. But, now ...
In Docker, Jan 22, 2022 docker-compose
How to restart a single container with docker-compose
Restarting docker-compose stack (docker-compose restart) it’s pretty easy and convinient, and if you somehow screw up something, docker-compose down/up will take care of it. But, now ...
In Docker, Jan 22, 2022 