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 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 Register a GitHub Actions Self-Hosted Runner on Ubuntu 26.04

GitHub Actions self-hosted runners allow you to run CI/CD workflows on your own hardware, giving you full control over the environment, installed tools, network access, and compute resources. This guide registers and configures a GitHub Actions self-hosted runner on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 26.04 LTS A GitHub […]

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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 and Use Helm on Ubuntu 26.04

Helm is the package manager for Kubernetes. It uses charts — pre-configured Kubernetes application packages — to simplify deploying complex applications. Helm 3 removed Tiller, making it more secure and easier to use. This guide installs Helm on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and demonstrates common workflows. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 26.04 […]

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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 ArgoCD on Ubuntu 26.04

ArgoCD is a declarative GitOps continuous delivery tool for Kubernetes. It monitors Git repositories and automatically syncs the desired application state into your Kubernetes cluster. This guide installs and configures ArgoCD on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with a running Kubernetes cluster. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with a running Kubernetes […]

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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 Vagrant and VirtualBox on Ubuntu 26.04

Vagrant is a tool for building and managing virtual machine environments. Combined with VirtualBox as the hypervisor, Vagrant lets developers spin up reproducible development environments from a simple Vagrantfile configuration. This guide installs Vagrant and VirtualBox on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (desktop or server with […]

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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 and Configure SonarQube on Ubuntu 26.04

SonarQube is an open-source platform for continuous inspection of code quality. It detects bugs, security vulnerabilities, and code smells across 30+ programming languages. This guide installs SonarQube Community Edition on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with PostgreSQL. Tested and valid on: Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Prerequisites Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with at least 2 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 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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