Automated Setups

How To Use Ansible to Install and Set Up WordPress with LAMP on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Ansible to Install and Set Up WordPress with LAMP on Ubuntu 18.04

This guide explains how to use Ansible to automate the steps contained in our guide on How To Install WordPress with LAMP on Ubuntu 18.04. WordPress is the most popular CMS (content management system) on the internet, allowing users to set up flexible blogs and websites on top of a MySQL backend with PHP processing. After setup, almost all administration can be done through the web frontend.

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How to Use Ansible to Automate Initial Server Setup on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use Ansible to Automate Initial Server Setup on Ubuntu 18.04

Ansible offers a simple architecture that doesn’t require special software to be installed on nodes. It also provides a robust set of features and built-in modules which facilitate writing automation scripts. This guide explains how to use Ansible to automate the steps contained in our Initial Server Setup Guide for Ubuntu 18.04 servers.

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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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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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Как создать сервер Hashicorp Vault с помощью Packer и Terraform в the cloud provider [Краткое руководство] — Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

Как создать сервер Hashicorp Vault с помощью Packer и Terraform в the cloud provider [Краткое руководство]

Vault от Hashicorp — это инструмент с открытым исходным кодом, предназначенный для безопасного хранения секретов и конфиденциальных данных в динамических облачных средах. Packer и Terraform, также…

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How to Keep Ubuntu 20.04 Servers Updated — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Keep Ubuntu 20.04 Servers Updated

the cloud provider makes it possible for you to run as many droplets as you need for a project with one click. However, it’s more straightforward to deploy a server than it is to maintain one, and as you scale up your infrastructure, and droplets end up having longer project lifespans than you originally envisioned, you may find that you have some unanswered questions about maintenance. There are many steps you can take to ensure your servers will continue to work securely without future intervention.

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