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Navigator's Guide: High Availability — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

Navigator’s Guide: High Availability

It doesn’t matter if you’re running a small blog, a large application, or an API; you never want it to be offline. A single point of failure is any part of your infrastructure that will cause downtime if it fails. A highly available infrastructure has no single point of failure. A highly available configuration is not only important for redundancy. It will also be faster and more cost effective to scale your infrastructure as well.

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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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How To Set Up Object Storage with Django — step-by-step Python tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up Object Storage with Django

object storage is an object storage solution, ideal for unstructured data such as audio, video, images or large amounts of text. To learn more about Spaces and object storage, you can read through [An Introduction to the cloud provider…

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Navigator's Guide: Initial Environment Setup — step-by-step DevOps tutorial on Progressive Robot

Navigator’s Guide: Initial Environment Setup

This is the first hands-on portion of the book. First, we’ll go over the tools we’ll be using, how they fit together, and how they can be beneficial to you as you begin to create and manage your infrastructure on the cloud provider. Then, we’ll set up a single Droplet which we’ll use as as a controller to run and use the rest of our tool belt.

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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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