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How to Connect Your Internet of Things with Node-RED on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Connect Your Internet of Things with Node-RED on Ubuntu 16.04

Node-RED is a switchboard for the Internet of Things, a visual tool that helps you connect your favorite apps, websites, and hardware together to do new and useful things. Node-RED has a powerful and flexible interface, and a large open source community creating *nodes* to interact with a wide variety of apps and services. In this tutorial, we’ll install Node.js and Node-RED, get an SSL certificate from Let’s Encrypt, and use Nginx to handle secure connections for Node-RED.

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How To Create a High Availability Setup with Heartbeat and Reserved IPs on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create a High Availability Setup with Heartbeat and Reserved IPs on Ubuntu 16.04

Heartbeat is an open source program that provides cluster infrastructure capabilities—cluster membership and messaging—to client servers, which is a critical component in a high availability (HA) server infrastructure. Heartbeat is typically used in conjunction with a cluster resource manager (CRM), such as Pacemaker, to achieve a complete HA setup. However, in this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to create a 2-node HA server setup by simply using Heartbeat and a the cloud provider Reserved IP.

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How To Create a Redundant Storage Pool Using GlusterFS on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create a Redundant Storage Pool Using GlusterFS on Ubuntu 18.04

GlusterFS is a network-attached storage filesystem that allows you to pool computing or storage resources of multiple machines. In turn, this lets you treat various computers as a single, more powerful unit. In this guide, you will create a redundant clustered storage array. This will provide functionality similar to a mirrored RAID configuration over the network

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How To Create an ECC Certificate on Nginx for Debian 7 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create an ECC Certificate on Nginx for Debian 7

Create an Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) key pair for more efficient certificate encryption. ECC keys provide security equivalent to that of larger RSA keys while being smaller in size, reducing the resources needed on the server and offering faster performance for mobile devices.

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How To Create RAID Arrays with mdadm on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create RAID Arrays with mdadm on Ubuntu 16.04

Linux’s mdadm utility can be used to turn a group of underlying storage devices into different types of RAID arrays. This provides various advantages depending on which RAID level is used. This guide will cover how to set up devices in the most common RAID configurations: RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, and 10.

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How To Define and Use Handlers in Ansible Playbooks — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Define and Use Handlers in Ansible Playbooks

In a nutshell, handlers are special tasks that only get executed when triggered via the notify directive. Handlers are executed at the end of the play, once all tasks are finished. In Ansible, handlers are typically used to start, reload, restart, and stop services. In this guide, learn more about how to define and use handlers in Ansible playbooks.

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