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How To Automate Backups with object storage — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Automate Backups with object storage

Backing up important data is an essential part of managing any computer infrastructure. In this tutorial, we will build a script around the s3cmd command line tool which can be used to quickly upload data to object storage. We will then use crontab to regularly invoke the backups script and upload files to our Space.

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How To Create a High Availability Setup with Heartbeat and Reserved IPs on Ubuntu 16.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create a High Availability Setup with Heartbeat and Reserved IPs on Ubuntu 16.04

Heartbeat is an open source program that provides cluster infrastructure capabilities—cluster membership and messaging—to client servers, which is a critical component in a high availability (HA) server infrastructure. Heartbeat is typically used in conjunction with a cluster resource manager (CRM), such as Pacemaker, to achieve a complete HA setup. However, in this tutorial, we will demonstrate how to create a 2-node HA server setup by simply using Heartbeat and a the cloud provider Reserved IP.

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