Here is a quick guide to configuring a self-signed SSL certificate in Grafana, allowing you to browse to: https://your_server:3000 What is Grafana? If you need monitoring dashboards, using Grafana and Prometheus will give you a great solution. Check out https://grafana.com and https://prometheus.io to start your Journey. Grafana SSL SSL is...
The Center for Internet Security (CIS) produces many security-hardened images that embed several security features into a standardized build. Using such features introduces a few gotchas, especially when installing any Oracle product. This procedure will explain preparing a CIS hardened image to install in the Oracle database client using X11...
Overview I stumbled across this problem when using a new MacBook Pro M1 CPU. I had some legacy code that used aws_template for a user data script. The template function is now deprecated, and the only way around this is to use the templatefile function that was introduced in Terraform...
Here are some useful Steampipe queries for AWS Need to know how to install Steampipe – see my blog post here. Want Instances Do I Have Running in AWS? Find CIDRs Within CIDRs List KMS Keys that are not automatically rotated
OpenStack is a fantastic open source cloud computing platform that allows you to create your own scalable infrastructure-as-as-service (IAAS) solution. This is a guide of how to install the OpenStack virtual cloud platform on the CentOS7 Operating system. It will work on Red Hat (RHEL), SUSE and Ubuntu. I will...
Nextcloud is a free, open-source, and most widely used file share and collaboration platform that allows you to host your own private cloud for documents, photos, etc. This guide will demonstrate how to install this on your very own Ubuntu server Requirements: Server with Ubuntu installed A valid domain name...
How to recover data on an EXT4 file system? What is an EXT4 file system? There are over 100 different types of file systems available for disk storage on the Linux Operating System. The Extended file system version 4, or EXT4 as it’s more commonly known, is one of the...
Steampipe is a powerful SQL query engine that is perfect at pulling data from your cloud platform. If it has an API, it can be queried by Steampipe. Install Steampipe: macOS with Brew We recommend installing Homebrew which provides pre-built binaries for Mac. STEP 1: Tap Turbot’s Cask ~$ brew tap turbot/tap STEP 2: Install...
Terraform: How to Deploy The Latest AMI everytime you Build One of the more common tasks you will be asked to do as an AWS administrator is to build an instance, but you want to have the very latest version of the base image. Take Windows Server 2016 for example,...
What is the easiest way to install Ansible on Linux? If you are using Ansible from the official Red Hat or CentOS repositories you may have noticed that the Ansible revision available via yum is significantly out of date. Take Red Hat 7 for example, not a very old version...
Yes, Grafana can run on a Raspberry Pi. I am using a Pi V4 with 8GB RAM, even these specs are overkill for Grafana, but I have plenty of other tools running on my Pi. The Pi is running Raspbian OS. How to Install Grafana? Simply follow these quick steps:...
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