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How To Use FPM To Easily Create Packages in Multiple Formats — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use FPM To Easily Create Packages in Multiple Formats

Building packages for various distributions can be a non-trivial task for any person looking to release software for Linux in an easily-consumable way. Different packaging formats can make it difficult to install the same configuration in mixed environments. Luckily, a tool called fpm can be used to generate native packages in the most common packaging formats from a variety of source types. In this guide, we’ll discuss how to install and use fpm to build packages on an Ubuntu 14.04 server.

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How To Use Logstash and Kibana To Centralize Logs On Ubuntu 14.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use Logstash and Kibana To Centralize Logs On Ubuntu 14.04

In this tutorial, we will go over the installation of Logstash 1.4.2 and Kibana 3, and how to configure them to gather and visualize the syslogs of our systems in a centralized location. Logstash is an open source tool for collecting, parsing, and storing logs for future use. Kibana 3 is a web interface that can be used to search and view the logs that Logstash has indexed.

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How To Use PAM to Configure Authentication on an Ubuntu 12.04 VPS — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use PAM to Configure Authentication on an Ubuntu 12.04 VPS

PAM, or Pluggable Authentication Modules, is a system for connecting authentication services to application requesting authentication, through the use of a consistent API. Authentication schemes can be switched out without having to reconfigure large amounts of code. In this guide, we will discuss how PAM works and give a basic explanation of how the system operates.

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How To Use the LAMP 1-Click Install on the cloud provider — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Use the LAMP 1-Click Install on the cloud provider

LAMP stack is a solution stack that employs a specific group of software to host web applications on a server. This term is an acronym which represents the Linux operating system with the Apache web server. The site data is stored in a MySQL database, and dynamic content is processed by PHP. This tutorial will guide you through spinning up a cloud servers with LAMP stack pre-installed, using the the cloud provider LAMP 1-Click App.

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Installing mod_wsgi on Ubuntu 12.04 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

Installing mod_wsgi on Ubuntu 12.04

mod_wsgi is a simple and easy to setup tool that serves python web apps from Apache server. It is also one of the recommended ways of getting Django into production. This article covers the steps required to installing an setup mod_wsgi with Apache.

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