Hello Guys, this is a second post of the configuration management with ansible series. Second post after Introduction to ansible . Previously we learned how to use ansible to automate the installation of wordpress and mysql database using ansible playbook. It’s time to spice things up a little bit. The purpose of this second post […]
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Introduction to Ansible
Hello There, This is the first article of the series on configuration management with Ansible. I hope this will give you hands on real practice time , working knowledge with Ansible Using Ansible Now that we have our default inventory and our infrastructure defined in the mother article, let’s see what we can do with […]
Taking advantage of vagrant for quick infrastructure prototyping
Hello Folks I must admit, I have been very reluctant in using vagrant for while before I have seen the light. I actually had my wow moment when I managed to set up a complex virtual IT infrastructure to simulate a deployment architecture with just few lines. Let’s get going with our task today. For […]
How to make virtualbox guest use its host’s internet connection and still have ssh access to the guest
Hi guys, The title of this post can be misleading but basically the challenge I would like us to solve is pretty simple. There are situations where a guest OS on vitualbox will need to have Internet connection which is by default through the NAT interface. But that will limit your access to the client […]
How to manage a second user on an amazon ec2 node
How to create a reverse proxy on ubuntu with apache2
How to create virtualhost on ubuntu
Hello All, In this blog, I am going to document how I do most of my co-hostings using apache2 virtualhost. I will be using virtualbox and ubuntu 14.04 guest. Preparatory work Usually I create a virtual machine with 2 network interfaces. [text] eth0 <— NAT adapter IP: 10.0.2.255 eth1 <— HostOnly adpater IP: 192.168.56.105 [/text] […]
how to use screen to protect your ssh session from abrupt internet deconnection
Hello Fellas! I must admit I have been lazy to learn this “screen thing” my boss has been telling me about. Foolishly I quickly installed the application on my desktop fedora thinking I got it started 😀 . Surprisingly not much of all the posts I have come across have painted it clearly that screen […]
“Yet Another How To” about useful linux terminal commands
Hi there, if you have ended up on this post, well that means you might have performed that infamous “How to” search regarding Linux command line. It’s all good, I have done such things before and will probably continue doing that. Today I actually decided I should start taking notes of what I type in […]
How to reverse proxy with apache2 with mod_jk load balancing
Hello, In my previous post I’ve talked about setting up 2 instances of tomcat on the same machine. This post is the second one of my series about load balancing instances of tomcats on a single machine as it’s a continuation of the first one. it talks essentially about how the real load balancing can […]