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How To Configure Chroot Environments for Testing on an Ubuntu 12.04 VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Configure Chroot Environments for Testing on an Ubuntu 12.04 VPS

Often, you may need to set up an environment that is isolated and slightly different than your normal operating system in order to test some software or configuration details. A common strategy in this situation is to configure a chroot environment, which provides a decent amount of isolation and basically provides a bare-bones guest operating system inside of the current one. In this guide, we’ll discuss how to set one up on an Ubuntu VPS instance.

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How To Configure Remote Access for MongoDB on Ubuntu 20.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Configure Remote Access for MongoDB on Ubuntu 20.04

This tutorial walks you through configuring a MongoDB installation to securely allow access from a trusted remote computer. This will involve updating your firewall rules to provide the remote server access to MongoDB’s default port and changing Mongo’s configuration file to update its IP binding setting.

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How To Create an SSH CA to Validate Hosts and Clients with Ubuntu — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Create an SSH CA to Validate Hosts and Clients with Ubuntu

When dealing with an extensive infrastructure and many team members, managing SSH keys for authentication can become unwieldy. However, SSH can utilize certificates in order to sign and validate user and host credentials to allow a seamless experience. In this guide, we’ll learn how to set this up using three Ubuntu 12.04 VPS instances.

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