Automated Setups

How To Test Your Ansible Deployment with InSpec and Kitchen — step-by-step Devops tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Test Your Ansible Deployment with InSpec and Kitchen

InSpec is an open-source auditing and automated testing framework used to describe and test for regulatory concerns, recommendations, or requirements. It is designed to be human-readable and platform-agnostic. In this tutorial, you’ll write tests for your Ansible playbooks running on a the cloud provider Ubuntu 18.04 Droplet. You’ll use Kitchen as the test-runner and InSpec for writing the tests. By the end of this tutorial, you’ll be able to test your Ansible playbook deployment.

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How to Use Ansible to Install and Set Up LEMP on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use Ansible to Install and Set Up LEMP on Ubuntu 18.04

This guide explains how to use Ansible to automate the steps contained in our guide on How To Install Linux, Nginx, MySQL and PHP (LEMP) on Ubuntu 18.04. The LEMP software stack is a group of software that can be used to serve dynamic web pages and web applications. This is an acronym that describes a Linux operating system, with an Nginx (pronounced like “Engine-X”) web server. The backend data is stored in the MySQL database and the dynamic processing is handled by PHP.

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How To Use Cron to Automate Tasks on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Cron to Automate Tasks on Ubuntu 18.04

Cron is a time-based job scheduling daemon found in Unix-like operating systems, including Linux distributions. This guide provides an overview of how to schedule tasks using cron’s special syntax on a machine running Ubuntu 18.04. It also goes over a few shortcuts one can use to make job schedules easier to write and understand.

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Automating Initial Server Setup with Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Automating Initial Server Setup with Ubuntu 18.04

When you first create a new Ubuntu 18.04 server, there are a few configuration steps that you should take early on as part of the basic setup. This will increase the security and usability of your server and will give you a solid foundation for subsequent actions. While…

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