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 …
In this “‘little” tutorial, I will explain how to view and analyze the space in the command line on Linux with ncdu. If you are adapted from WinDirStat or TreeSize on Windows, the ncdu utility on Linux allows you to have the “same” thing in a terminal. The first thing to do is to install …
In this tutorial, I will explain to you how to install Docker on Ubuntu and then through a concrete example how and why to use Docker. At the time of writing this tutorial (in 2021) as SysAdmin, I was having a hard time finding a concrete use for containers including Docker (so I’ll let you …
In this tutorial dedicated to Nginx, I will explain how to configure it in order to have a reverse proxy. Before getting to the heart of the matter, I will quickly introduce you to Nginx and what a reverse proxy. For this tutorial, I used an Ubuntu 20.04 machine. Introducing Nginx Nginx is a web …