Configuration Management

Web Servers Checkpoint — step-by-step Web Servers tutorial on Progressive Robot

Web Servers Checkpoint

This checkpoint is intended to help you assess what you learned from our introductory articles to Web Servers, where we introduced practical implementations and popular options for configuring your web server.

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How To Use Roles and Environments in Chef to Control Server Configurations — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Roles and Environments in Chef to Control Server Configurations

In previous guides, we discussed Chef terminology, how to install a Chef server, workstation, and node (with Chef 12 or Chef 11), and how to create simple cookbooks to manage configuration. In this guide, we will continue to explore how you can manage your environment with Chef. We will discuss how to use roles and environments to differentiate your servers and services based on what kind of functionality they should exhibit.

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How To Install Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (Elastic Stack) on Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana (Elastic Stack) on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial, we will go over the installation of the Elastic Stack on an Ubuntu 18.04 server. You will learn how to install all the components of the Elastic Stack (including Filebeat, a Beat used for forwarding and centralizing logs and files) and configure them to gather and visualize system logs. We will install all components on a single server, which we will refer to as our Elastic Stack Server.

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How To Use Droplet Tagging with the cloud provider API — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Droplet Tagging with the cloud provider API

Droplet tagging is a new feature, not yet exposed via the the cloud provider Control Panel, but available to users of the API. This feature allows you to group and locate Droplets by applying tags, as well as initiate actions across all the Droplets with a specific tag. This guide explains basic usage of the feature with cURL.

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Como instalar e configurar o Ansible no Ubuntu 18.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Como instalar e configurar o Ansible no Ubuntu 18.04

Sistemas de gerenciamento de configuração são projetados para facilitar o controle de um grande número de servidores aos administradores e equipes de operações. Isso permite que você controle sistemas diferentes de forma automática a partir de um local central. Embora existam…

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