Devops

How To Build a Hashicorp Vault Server Using Packer and Terraform on the cloud provider [Quickstart] — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Build a Hashicorp Vault Server Using Packer and Terraform on the cloud provider [Quickstart]

Vault, by Hashicorp, is an open-source tool for securely storing secrets and sensitive data in dynamic cloud environments. Packer and Terraform, also developed by Hashicorp, can be used together to create and deploy images of Vault. In this tutorial, you’ll use Packer to create an immutable snapshot of the system with Vault installed, and orchestrate its deployment using Terraform.

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How To Manage Multiple Servers with Ansible Ad Hoc Commands — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Manage Multiple Servers with Ansible Ad Hoc Commands

With Ansible, you can use ad hoc commands to execute one instruction at a time on one or more remote servers. They are ideal to perform tasks that aren’t executed frequently, and to consult information about the remote systems that Ansible manages. In this cheatsheet guide, you’ll learn how to use ad hoc commands to manage one or more servers with Ansible, and how to perform some common tasks this way.

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Infrastructure as Code Explained — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

Infrastructure as Code Explained

In this article, we define Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and explain the benefits of IaC in development and deployment workflows. We also start to learn about Terraform’s role in the IaC workflow and understand “what is ‘state’?” in IaC.

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An Introduction to SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

An Introduction to SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol)

SNMP, or simple network management protocol, is a standard internet protocol used to monitor remote servers, gather information, and even modify states and values on other hosts. Mostly leveraging a client-server model, the protocol is very mature and fairly ubiquitous across networked devices. In this guide, we will introduce you to some fundamental SNMP concepts and take a look at the protocol in broad strokes.

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How to Manage Multistage Environments with Ansible — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Manage Multistage Environments with Ansible

Ansible is a powerful configuration management system used to set up and manage infrastructure and applications in varied environments. While Ansible provides easy-to-read syntax, flexible workflows, and powerful tooling, managing large numbers of hosts that have important…

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3 Strategies for Minimizing Downtime — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

3 Strategies for Minimizing Downtime

As businesses and other organizations increasingly depend on internet-based services, attention is being focused on creating reliable infrastructure that minimizes costly downtime. In this article, we will discuss three areas where improvements could lead to less downtime for your organization. These areas are monitoring and alerting, software deployments, and high availability.

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An Introduction to Metrics, Monitoring, and Alerting — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

An Introduction to Metrics, Monitoring, and Alerting

Understanding the state of your infrastructure and systems is essential for ensuring the reliability and stability of your services. In this guide, we will discuss what metrics, monitoring, and alerting are. We will talk about why they are important, what types of opportunities they provide, and the type of data you may wish to track. We will be introducing some key terminology along the way and will end with a short glossary of some other terms you might come across while exploring this space.

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