In this tutorial, I will explain how to activate the firewall on a computer with Ubuntu and manage it with UFW. UFW for Uncomplicated Firewall is a simplified Netfilter command line utility, it is a simple alternative to iptables, which allows to manage firewall rules. If UFW is not installed, use the following command to …
In this tutorial, we will see how to configure the size of systemd logs on an Ubuntu distribution. By default, the logs located in the /var/log/journal folder can take several gigabytes of disk space. As can be seen from the screenshot below, the logs take up 4 Giga of disk space. The configuration of the …
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 tutorial, I will walk you through how to install Docker and Docker Compose on Ubuntu and Debian. Installation of Docker and docker-compose from the official repositories Docker and docker-compose are part of the official repositories of both distributions (Ubuntu and Debian), so just run the two commands below: Installing Docker: Installing docker-compose: The …
In this tutorial, I will explain how to install xRDP in order to have a remote desktop server (or rather a service) on Ubuntu. The purpose of this installation is not to make a remote desktop farm so that several users can connect to it simultaneously, but to be able to take control of Ubuntu …
In this tutorial, I will walk you through how to add swap space on Ubuntu 20.04 and above. A swap space on Linux is a location on the disk, which allows the OS to load the random access memory (RAM), on Windows we find this type of file pagefile.sys By default, on server versions of …
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 how to extend a disk’s partition and then the LVM disk. To understand what we are going to do in this tutorial, I have a virtual machine with Ubuntu Server 20.04 installed on an LVM disk, following the addition of data, I must increase the storage capacity, for that …
Here is how to display the default gateway on Ubuntu from the command line. Ubuntu 20.04 + (without net tools) Ubuntu 18.04 – (with net-tools)
In this tutorial, I will explain to you how to secure the network part of your web servers with Crowdsec. The tutorial is made on Ubuntu 20.04 Crowdsec overview Crowdsec is an open source tool that allows you to “secure” or rather add a layer of security to your Linux servers (soon Windows too) by …