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Posts in 2019

  • Running Nginx using Docker Compose

    Friday, February 01, 2019 in Linux

    Pre-Requisites: Docker: Install Using Convenience Script: curl -fsSL https://get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh && sudo sh get-docker.sh Docker-Compose: Install Using: sudo apt-get install docker-compose Steps Create docker-compose.yaml file …

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Posts in 2018

  • Linux Process Manager: Upstart

    Monday, October 22, 2018 in Linux

    Definiation: Upstart is an event-based replacement for the /sbin/init daemon which handles starting of tasks and services during boot, stopping them during shutdown and supervising them while the system is running. Upstart Processes reside in …

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  • Monitoring with Nagios and Nginx

    Saturday, January 06, 2018 in Linux

    Nagios provides enterprise-class Open Source IT monitoring, network monitoring, server and applications monitoring. We’ll cover Linux (Ubuntu) Server Monitoring. Update your system. apt update and optionally upgrade using apt upgrade Install …

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Posts in 2017

  • Understanding Crontab Syntax

    Saturday, October 07, 2017 in Linux

    What is a Cron? A Cron is a time-based job scheduler in Unix Operating Systems. It is driven by Crontab (cron table) - a configuration file that specifies shell commands to run periodically on a given schedule. Crontab files are usually stored …

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  • Free SSL Certificates using Certbot

    Saturday, September 30, 2017 in Linux

    What is SSL? Secure Sockets Layer is a cryptographic protocol that provided communications security overa computer network. Also makes a domain name reflect HTTPS on your browser address. SSL is currently succeeded by TLS (Transport Layer Security) …

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