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Portainer: How to Build a Docker Home Lab Setup

Update: Tested and Validated 30th December 2023 Portainer is a lightweight, free, open-source Docker and Kubernetes management from a Web Browser. It provides a simple and user-friendly web interface to build and manage containers, images, networks, volumes, registries, services, and nodes. Portainer is very useful for anyone learning containers, docker,...

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Yum Update on ‘end of life’ CentOS6

Note: Procedure fully tested FEB 2025 Let’s be honest, It’s nearly 2024; you shouldn’t really be using CentOS6 or RHEL 6. However, I fully appreciate you may have inherited an outdated legacy system that is desperate to upgrade. Any clean, out-of-the-box installation of Cent0S6 or RHEL6 will give you an...

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Install Oracle 19c Client on CIS RHEL.

A guide to installing Oracle 19c Client on a CIS Hardened Image of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Are you looking for an unattended installation procedure? Check our other documentation here. The Center for Internet Security (CIS) produces many security-hardened images that embed several security features into a standardized build. Using...

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Steampipe AWS One-Liners

Here are some useful Steampipe queries for AWS Need to know how to install Steampipe – see my blog post here. What is Steampipe AWS? Turbot’s Steampipe AWS tools are great for understanding your Cloud and SaaS Infrastructure. You can ask any question about these platforms from users, assets, identity,...

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How to build an OpenStack Host

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 on 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 be...

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How to Install and Configure Nextcloud on Ubuntu

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: Step 1 – Prepare your Server Log into...

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EXT4 Data Recovery For Linux File System Experts

Update: This Procedure was revised and retested to ensure our site contains quality and accurate procedures. Validated: 9th Feb 2024 EXT4 Data Recovery: Recover Data from an EXT4 Linux File System. Your Ultimate Guide to Linux File Restoration What is an EXT4 file system? Linux’s Operating System offers over 100...

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Steampipe : Powerful SQL Queries for Cloud

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...

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Deploy The Latest AMI everytime!

Terraform: How to Deploy The Latest AMI every time 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...

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