Automated Setups

How to Use Ansible to Install and Set Up Docker on Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Docker tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use Ansible to Install and Set Up Docker on Ubuntu 20.04

Docker is an application that simplifies the process of managing application processes in *containers*. This guide explains how to use Ansible to automate the steps contained in our guide on How To Install and Use Docker on Ubuntu 20.04. Ansible is a modern configuration management tool that can be used to automate the provisioning and configuration of remote systems.

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How To Build and Deploy Packages for Your FreeBSD Servers Using Buildbot and Poudriere — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Build and Deploy Packages for Your FreeBSD Servers Using Buildbot and Poudriere

Poudriere is the standard tool on FreeBSD to build, test, and audit packages as well as maintain the package repositories. In this tutorial you’ll configure Poudriere, build a set of desired packages, set up HTTP-base package hosting, and automate the build using Buildbot as a continuous integration platform. Next, you will access the packages from a client machine. Finally, if you want to integrate your own software builds with this process, you’ll step through building an example application.

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How to Use Ansible to Install and Set Up Docker on Ubuntu 22.04 — step-by-step Docker tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use Ansible to Install and Set Up Docker on Ubuntu 22.04

Docker is an application that simplifies the process of managing application processes in *containers*. This guide explains how to use Ansible to automate the steps contained in our guide on How To Install and Use Docker on Ubuntu 22.04. Ansible is a modern configuration management tool that can be used to automate the provisioning and configuration of remote systems.

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Configuration Management 101: Writing Ansible Playbooks — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

Configuration Management 101: Writing Ansible Playbooks

This tutorial will walk you through the process of creating an automated server provisioning using Ansible, a configuration management tool that provides a complete automation framework and orchestration capabilities. We will focus on the language terminology, syntax and features necessary for creating a simplified example to fully automate the deployment of an Ubuntu 18.04 web server using Apache.

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How To Deploy and Manage Your DNS using OctoDNS on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Deploy and Manage Your DNS using OctoDNS on Ubuntu 18.04

OctoDNS is an infrastructure-as-code tool that allows you to deploy and manage your DNS zones using standard software development principles, including version control, testing, and automated deployment. In this tutorial, you’ll install and configure OctoDNS, create a basic DNS configuration, and begin deploying DNS records to a live provider.

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