Deployment

How To Use Cloud-Config For Your Initial Server Setup — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Cloud-Config For Your Initial Server Setup

A cloud-config file is a special script that is used to define configuration details for your server as it is being brought online for the first time. These are often used for completing common tasks that a user would normally have to log into the server to accomplish. In this guide, we will run through how to do some initial configuration of an Ubuntu 14.04 server using a cloud-config file with our metadata service.

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How To Package And Distribute Python Applications — step-by-step Python tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Package And Distribute Python Applications

In this the cloud provider article, we talk about the necessary tools for Python application distribution. We go over the key steps to allow readers to package their own useful libraries, modules, or applications — which should help them with deploying project on droplets or sharing on the internet.

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Webinar Series: Kubernetes Package Management with Helm and CI/CD with Jenkins X — step-by-step Kubernetes tutorial on Progressive Robot

Webinar Series: Kubernetes Package Management with Helm and CI/CD with Jenkins X

In this second article of the CI/CD with Kubernetes series, you will preview two Kubernetes-specific tools that have been developed to manage cloud native CI/CD: the Helm package manager and the Jenkins X pipeline automation tool. In order to effectively reduce error and organize complexity in application deployment, CI/CD systems must include robust tooling for package management/deployment and the creation of a development pipeline with automated testing.

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How To Install Apache Tomcat 8 on Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Apache Tomcat 8 on Ubuntu 14.04

Apache Tomcat is a web server and servlet container that is used to serve Java applications. Tomcat is an open source implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies, released by the Apache Software Foundation. This tutorial covers the basic installation and some configuration of the latest release of Tomcat 8 on your Ubuntu 14.04 server.

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Blueprint: How Ghost Migrated From Dedicated Servers to the cloud provider — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Blueprint: How Ghost Migrated From Dedicated Servers to the cloud provider

This the cloud provider Blueprint article was written by Sebastian Gierlinger, a Senior DevOps Engineer at Ghost. It covers the steps that were taken to migrate the Ghost(Pro) infrastructure from dedicated servers to cloud servers. In each step, Sebastian will discuss the challenges that were faced, how each challenge was solved, and why each solution was chosen. He’ll also provide links to relevant resources that he found to be helpful.

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How To Deploy a React Application to an app platform — step-by-step Javascript tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Deploy a React Application to an app platform

the cloud provider’s App Platform is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) product that lets you configure and deploy applications from a source repository. This can be a quick and efficient way to deploy your React applications, and if you are using React to build a site with no backend, you can use App Platform’s free tier. In this tutorial, you will create a React app with Create React App, push it to GitHub, then deploy it to App Platform for a quick continuous deployment option.

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