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Getting Started With Puppet Code: Manifests and Modules — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Getting Started With Puppet Code: Manifests and Modules

After setting up Puppet in an agent/master configuration, you may need some help writing Puppet manifests and modules. In order to use Puppet effectively, you must understand how manifests and modules are constructed. This tutorial covers Puppet code basics, and will show you how to construct manifests and modules that will help you get started with using Puppet to manage your server environment.

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How to Choose a Linux Distribution — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Choose a Linux Distribution

There are many Linux distributions available, each with their own maintainers, some backed by commercial providers and some not. For the purpose of running a cloud server, there are a few you should be aware of.

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An Introduction to DNS Terminology, Components, and Concepts — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

An Introduction to DNS Terminology, Components, and Concepts

DNS, or the Domain Name System, is an integral part of how the internet functions today. However, the way that DNS works is often quite mysterious for new administrators. In this guide, we will discuss some of the common terminology and concepts that are involved in DNS configuration.

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How the Iptables Firewall Works — step-by-step Security tutorial on Progressive Robot

How the Iptables Firewall Works

The iptables firewall is a good way to protect your server from unwanted traffic from the internet. In this guide, we’ll discuss the general idea behind the iptables firewall and how rules interact with each other.

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An Introduction to Load Testing — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

An Introduction to Load Testing

In this article, we’ll talk about the server side of web performance optimization: how fast can your server respond to your user’s requests? We’ll review the general landscape of load testing, step through a plan to find your server’s maximum practical response rate, and discuss some options for open source load testing software.

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Arquitetando Aplicações para o Kubernetes — step-by-step Kubernetes tutorial on Progressive Robot

Arquitetando Aplicações para o Kubernetes

Projetar e executar aplicações com escalabilidade, portabilidade e robustez pode ser um desafio, especialmente à medida que a complexidade do sistema aumenta. A arquitetura de uma aplicação ou sistema impacta significativamente em como ele deve ser executado, o que ele espera de…

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What is Load Balancing? — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

What is Load Balancing?

Load balancing is a key component of highly-available infrastructures commonly used to improve the performance and reliability of web sites, applications, databases and other services by distributing the workload across multiple servers. A web infrastructure with no load…

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Comprendre les bases de données relationnelles — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

Comprendre les bases de données relationnelles

Les systèmes de gestion des bases de données (SGDB ou DBMS en anglais) sont des programmes informatiques qui permettent aux utilisateurs d’interagir avec une base de données. Un SGDB permet aux utilisateurs de contrôler l’accès à une base de données, d’écrire des données,…

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