How to Achieve Effective DevSecOps with These 5 Steps
DevSecOps has been a hot topic within tech conversations for a few years now. The idea isn’t new. But what has changed is the role that ..
Terraform Performance
Do you use HashiCorp’s Terraform as your infrastructure-as-code tool, and want to get more out of it? You’ve come to the right place. ..
Using Flask on Python 3 with MySQL
If you’re looking to build a simple web application with a nice frontend, you may think your options are limited as far as what languages ..
Proxmox vs. VMware vs. Cloud
If you’re a systems administrator or DevOps engineer who works in the IT industry and gets to make choices around what virtualisation ..
A DevOps Comparison of Cloud VPS Services
There are a myriad of online VPS (Virtual Private Server) services available now to choose from, and certainly a lot more than there were ..
Protecting your Virtual Machines with Fail2ban
Anyone who has ever spent any amount of time setting up and maintaining servers will understand how difficult it can be to stay on top of identifying ..
Introduction to LVM
Most people still use standard partitioning schemes on their Linux desktops and servers. But as with most things in Linux, you have choices. ..
Identifying network issues with Smokeping
Fault diagnosis on Local Area Networks (LANs) can be tricky at the best of times. Things get even more complex when you’re dealing with ..
Set Up Nagios to Monitor Your Infrastructure
There are many different monitoring tools available that can help you to monitor your infrastructure. Some are cloud-based, such as New Relic; ..
Historical Graphing and Metrics with Observium
There are many different monitoring solutions which allow you to graph system metrics and keep them for historical purposes. Some of these ..
Deploying Infrastructure in Terraform
Infrastructure management has changed a lot over the years. Historically, your traditional systems administrator would manage a rack full ..
Enterprise-class Backups in the Open Source Arena
In enterprise businesses, there will often be complex, expensive backup solutions in place that are out of reach monetarily for those in SMBs ..
Fighting SPAM with Postfix, DNSBL, and SQLGrey
E-mail spam has been a problem for many years, not only because so many messages that are sent are unsolicited, but also because a lot of them ..
Using Packer to Build Custom AMIs in Amazon
As you probably already know, there are numerous AMIs available for your use within the Amazon EC2 environment. However, you may find that ..
Secure Your Network with Pfsense Firewall
Whether you’re running a small home network or working in an enterprise environment, it’s easy to find fault with consumer grade routers ..
Using AWS EFS to Replace Complex Clustered Filesystem Setups
During my career, I have seen many different ways of creating shared storage for multiple web servers or database servers. It’s not always ..