Create test Apache site with Docker

After creating your EC2 instance and connecting using PuTTY, this tutorials shows steps on how to run docker and setup a test Apache site using a docker image. This tutorial aims to introduce the basic operation of docker and how to use it on a Linux environment.

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Ansible Part IV: Roles Overview

You may find Ad-hoc mode (from Part II) easy to use on day-to-day tasks such as for quick systems checks or when updating a config file on multiple systems. Stepping up simple ad-hoc commands are Ansible playbooks (from Part III) and Ansible roles which are very powerful ways to utilize Ansible’s features.

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Ansible Part III: Using Playbooks

The Ansible cases we tested so far from Part I and Part II are what we call ad-hoc mode. If you are pretty comfortable on combining these ad-hoc commands and bash scripts, you can do a lot of work for a small amount of time. But Ansible can offer a lot more features. We’ll explore creating Ansible playbooks on this part.

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Ansible Part II: Using Modules

On the first part of this series, you learned how to setup and configure Ansible. Part II explains how Ansible modules work and how you can use Ansible in ad-hoc mode from the command line.

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Raspberry Pi Thin Client

This tutorial creates a Raspberry Pi, a low cost single board computer, which can be used as a thin client that works with RDP, VMWare View, Citrix, OpenNX, and Spice. The base image for the OS is based on Debian.

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How to find out PID in Linux

Every Linux process has a process ID (PID) assigned to it.  It is a unique identification number that is automatically assigned to each process when it is created in an operating system. A process is a running instance of a program. In this tutorial we’ll look into ways on how to find the PID of process.

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Redirect HTTP to HTTPS on Apache

SSL secured websites or HTTPS has now become a must to have on website, especially those handling sensitive client information. Having a HTTPS enabled website means that a intruder can’t intrude to communication between users and website. HTTPS not only secures communication but is now a requirement for many new features like http2, which requires you to have https enabled on your server. Having a HTTPS enabled website also improves your Google SEO (Search Engine Optimization) ranking.

In this tutorial, we will discuss two methods on how we can redirect http traffic to https on Apache web servers.
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Setup Master Slave replication in MariaDB

Databases are arguably one of the main component of any modern application. And one of the most popular implementation of SQL databases is Mysql or the new replacement MariaDB. As a system administrator, you probably have installed and configured a database before. This tutorial will walk though setting up the master-slave replication of MariaDB.
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