DevOps

How to Install Vagrant and VirtualBox on Ubuntu 24.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up ArgoCD on Ubuntu 24.04

ArgoCD is a declarative GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. It synchronises Kubernetes cluster state with Git repositories automatically. This guide installs ArgoCD on a Kubernetes cluster running on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 24.04 LTS server A running Kubernetes cluster (kubeadm or k3s) kubectl configured Helm installed […]

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How to Install Vagrant and VirtualBox on Ubuntu 24.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Vagrant and VirtualBox on Ubuntu 24.04

Vagrant provides a consistent, portable development environment by automating the creation and provisioning of virtual machines. This guide installs Vagrant and VirtualBox on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 24.04 LTS desktop or server CPU with hardware virtualisation enabled (VT-x/AMD-V) A user with sudo privileges Step 1 – Add […]

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How to Install Vagrant and VirtualBox on Ubuntu 24.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure SonarQube on Ubuntu 24.04

SonarQube is an open-source platform for continuous code quality inspection, detecting bugs, vulnerabilities, and code smells. This guide installs SonarQube on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with PostgreSQL 16. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 24.04 LTS server Minimum 2 GB RAM (4 GB recommended) Java 21 installed PostgreSQL 16 installed A user with […]

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How to Set Up a DNS Server with Bind9 on Ubuntu 26.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure Traefik Reverse Proxy on Ubuntu 26.04

Traefik is a modern, cloud-native reverse proxy and load balancer designed for microservices. It auto-discovers services from Docker labels, Kubernetes ingress, and other providers, and automatically provisions Let’s Encrypt TLS certificates. This guide installs Traefik v3 on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with Docker. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with Docker […]

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How to Set Up Software RAID with mdadm on Ubuntu 26.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Prometheus and Grafana on Ubuntu 26.04

Prometheus is an open-source metrics collection and alerting system, while Grafana provides beautiful dashboards for visualising those metrics. Together they form the most popular open-source monitoring stack. This guide installs both on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with Nginx and SSL. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with Nginx installed A user […]

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How to Set Up a Git Server with Gitea on Ubuntu 26.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Jenkins on Ubuntu 26.04

Jenkins is the most widely used open-source automation server. It supports building, testing, and deploying software through pipelines defined as code (Jenkinsfile). This guide installs Jenkins LTS on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and secures it behind Nginx with HTTPS. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with Java 21+ (OpenJDK) Nginx installed […]

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How to Set Up a Git Server with Gitea on Ubuntu 26.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install GitLab CE on Ubuntu 26.04

GitLab Community Edition (CE) is a self-hosted Git repository platform with built-in CI/CD, issue tracking, container registry, and merge request workflows. This guide installs GitLab CE on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS using the official Omnibus package. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with at least 4 GB RAM and 2 CPUs […]

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How to Set Up a Git Server with Gitea on Ubuntu 26.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up a Git Server with Gitea on Ubuntu 26.04

Gitea is a lightweight, self-hosted Git service written in Go. It provides a GitHub-like interface with repositories, issues, pull requests, and actions CI/CD, but runs on minimal hardware. This guide installs Gitea on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with Nginx and a PostgreSQL database. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with Nginx […]

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How to Set Up a Git Server with Gitea on Ubuntu 26.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Ansible on Ubuntu 26.04

Ansible is an agentless IT automation tool that uses SSH and YAML playbooks to configure servers, deploy applications, and orchestrate complex workflows. It requires no agents on managed nodes — just SSH access and Python. This guide installs Ansible on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and runs a first playbook. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS […]

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How to Set Up a Git Server with Gitea on Ubuntu 26.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Terraform on Ubuntu 26.04

Terraform is HashiCorp’s infrastructure-as-code tool that lets you define cloud and on-premises resources in human-readable configuration files that you can version, reuse, and share. This guide installs Terraform on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and runs a first configuration. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 26.04 LTS A user with sudo privileges Cloud provider […]

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