Block Storage

How To Move an Nginx Web Root to a New Location on Ubuntu 22.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Move an Nginx Web Root to a New Location on Ubuntu 22.04

On Ubuntu, by default, the Nginx web server stores its documents in `/var/www/html`, which is typically located on the root filesystem with the rest of the operating system. Sometimes, though, it’s helpful to move the document root to another location, such as a separate mounted filesystem.

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

How To Manage RAID Arrays with mdadm on Ubuntu 16.04

In this guide, we discuss how to use Linux’s mdadm utility to manage RAID arrays and perform day-to-day administrative tasks. We cover how to start, stop, or remove RAID arrays, how to find information about both the RAID device and the underlying storage components, and how to adjust the RAID size and and hot spares to existing arrays.

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How To Set Up a Ceph Cluster within Kubernetes Using Rook — step-by-step Kubernetes tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up a Ceph Cluster within Kubernetes Using Rook

Rook is a storage orchestration tool that provides a cloud-native, open source solution for a diverse set of storage providers. Ceph is a highly scalable distributed-storage solution offering object, block, and file storage. In this tutorial, you will set up a Ceph cluster using Rook and use it to persist data for a MongoDB database as an example.

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How To Set Up an NFS Server Using Block Storage — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up an NFS Server Using Block Storage

NFS, or Network File System, is a distributed file system protocol that allows you to mount remote directories on your server. *Block storage* is a generic term used to describe network-based storage volumes that are usually offered by hosting providers. Block storage usually does not provide its own API for direct access. Instead, it needs to be mounted to an existing server and shared from that server. Running an NFS server on an attached droplet is a good solution to expose block storage.

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