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...
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...
Deployment Manager is an infrastructure deployment service that automates the creation and management of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) resources for you. The Cloud Deployment Manager is now on Version 2. If you are from an AWS background, GCP deployment manager is similar to CloudFormation, but a lot easier to use!...
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Red Hat or CentOS repositories you may have noticed that the Ansible revision available via yum is significantly out of date.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:...
It is possible to use nested virtualization to run VMware ESXi as a Virtual Machine in Hyper-V. To some, this may be a viable option if you are unable to acquire any new hardware, or if you simply want to test new VMware products on your Windows 10 desktop. Although this process is not...
What is the Alation Data Catalog? Alation is a data catalog tool used to search, query and collaborate on large data sets, using machine learning to gain insights incredibly quickly. In my environment, I have a Teradata source database that uses clickstream to record user behavior on the website, it...
This is an intermediate guide to the core Terraform concepts. If you can get your head around these core concepts, you will be well on your way to understanding Terraform. I have not included Terraform modules in the guide, modules are a big topic and I will tackle these in...
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