Introduction Monitoring and logging are crucial for maintaining a reliable system. Whether you’re managing cloud infrastructure, microservices, servers, or CI/CD pipelines, automation scripts provide a strong foundation & play a key role in preventing late-night production issues In this article, we will look at 13 essential automation scripts that every DevOps engineer should know. These […]
FOR LINUX: You can install Docker Engine in different ways. Before you install Docker Engine for the first time on a new host machine, you need to set up the Docker repository. Afterward, you can install and update Docker from the repository. Below are the steps to install docker on your machine. sudo apt-get update […]
Container service is not new, it was built around ten years ago in Linux environment also known as Linux container (LXC). But today, docker is most popular and has become synonymous to containers. So before talking about some container technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, we have to understand what container service is, and what is the difference between VMs […]
Google Drive is an indispensable part of our life nowadays. From sharing almost every type of file to anyone/anywhere around the world has reduced our cost and time tremendously from self-hosting an FTP server and taking care of its security. From DevOps perspective, it becomes even more convenient if we could have our google drive(s) synced on […]
Linux is the most-used open source operating system. Managing network traffic is one of the toughest jobs to deal with. For this, we must configure the firewall in such a way that it meets the system and users requirements without leaving the system vulnerable. The default firewall in most of the Linux distributions is IPTables. IPTables is used […]
Monitoring servers are very important for every server administrator. There are some command line tools available to monitor server resource usages like top, vmstat, etc. Why ? SAR or sar provides almost all the resource usages reports which we get from many different tools at one place but more importantly is could keep a record of the data which […]
Refer this blog to get a basic understanding of using self-signed SSL certificates on your Apache server. Also, the above link will help you in generating a private key and a CSR (Certificate Signing Request), which contains information about your country, locality, company, your public key, etc.; for your server. For commercial SSL certificates firstly a […]
Linux is an awesome operating system. It performs good with fewer resources and tries to maximize utilization of available resources automatically and because of this, it’s slightly difficult to understand resource utilization. Linux comes with many commands to check memory usage. The “free” command usually displays the total amount of free and used physical and swap […]
As we know AWS provides a good edge in terms of cost over the on-premises data center or in a co-location environment with its On Demand and Reserved pricing. As it is rightly said “Reducing the overall cost is a high priority” and it is true for any organization whether big or small. By using […]