Ubuntu 22.04: install Docker

In this tutorial, I will show you a script to install Docker and Docker Compose on Ubuntu 22.04. Today more and more applications are available in containers with Docker, I regularly have to install a new machine on Ubuntu and have to install Docker and Docker Compose. Personally, I prefer to install Docker from the …

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Zabbix – monitor Docker

In this tutorial I will explain how to build a Docker server with Zabbix using agent 2. Zabbix agent2 allows you to monitor Docker without needing to add a template or plugin to the agent because it does it natively. Here is the official page : Docker monitoring and integration with Zabbix. My environment: Configuring …

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Nginx – GeoIP: configuration

In this new tutorial dedicated to Nginx, I will explain to you how to configure GeoIP in order to be able to set filters (restrictions) based on the country of your visitors. GeoIP will allow us to determine the country (see city) of a visitor based on their IP address, for this we will rely …

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Keycloak: deploy an identification manager with Docker

In this tutorial, I will explain how to deploy Keycloak with Docker. Keycloak Overview Before getting to the heart of the matter, I will present to you Keycloak. Keycloak is open source software, which allows you to set up a single sign-on SSO system that supports: If you know ADFS, Keycloak allows you to do …

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Docker: create a MariaDB or MySQL container

In this tutorial, I will explain how to create a MariaDB or MySQL container with Docker. Today, more and more applications are present in businesses and require a database. Previously, we often had a server dedicated to the MySQL or MariaDB database where all the databases coexisted on the same server and with the same …

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Zabbix: monitor a website

In this tutorial, I will explain to you how to monitor a website using Zabbix. The supervision of Internet sites is done using Web scenarios and it is possible to add parameters for example if authentication is necessary, here we will simply keep it as simple as possible. With Zabbix here is the information you …

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Zabbix: restart a Windows service

In this tutorial, I will explain how to restart a Windows service where Zabbix agent is installed. If you followed the tutorial: Zabbix – Restart a service on Ubuntu – Linux, it’s almost identical. To illustrate this tutorial, we will try to restart the Winlogbeat service. As you can see, on several servers the Winlogbeat …

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Zabbix – monitor an Nginx web server

In this new tutorial dedicated to Zabbix, I will explain how to monitor a web server under Nginx in order to have performance metrics. For monitoring, Zabbix agent should be installed on Nginx server, as we will use it to collect statics which will then send to Zabbix monitoring server. Before configuring monitoring at Zabbix …

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Update Ansible on Ubuntu

In a previous tutorial, I explained how to install and use Ansible to execute automatic actions on your Windows and Linux servers. Like all applications, Ansible is regularly updated and so to enjoy the latest features and bug fixes, you should also update Ansible. The “problem” when you go through the official repositories of distributions …

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