A Beginner’s Guide to Terraform: Getting Started, Best Practices, and More

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Section 1: Introduction to Terraform Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code (IaC) tool that enables developers and operators to manage and provision infrastructure resources across different cloud providers and on-premises infrastructure. It was created by HashiCorp and released in 2014. Terraform allows you to define infrastructure resources in code, rather than using manual processes … Read more

Creating a Custom Boot Menu with iPXE and PXE Server: Take Your Network Installations to the Next Level

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Are you tired of manually installing different operating systems on multiple computers? Look no further than iPXE and PXE server to make your life easier! With a PXE server and iPXE, you can deploy Windows, Linux, or any other operating system to multiple computers over the network. In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to … Read more

Build Your Own Search Engine and Web Crawler in 5 Minutes with Node.js, MySQL, and Elasticsearch

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In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to build a search engine and web crawler using Node.js, MySQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch. We’ll start by creating a web crawler that will endlessly crawl the web and add new URLs to a MySQL database and a Redis cache. We’ll then set up Elasticsearch to index the pages … Read more

Mastering Web Crawling and Indexing: Advanced Techniques for Building Your Own Search Engine with Node.js, MySQL, and Elasticsearch

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In this tutorial, we will take the basic search engine and web crawler we built in our previous tutorial and make it more advanced by customizing the crawler, using more advanced indexing techniques with Elasticsearch, and implementing a PageRank algorithm to rank pages higher based on the number of links between domains. If you haven’t … Read more

Automate Your Email Management: Deploy a Mail Server with Ansible

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Are you tired of manually setting up and configuring your mail server every time you need to deploy a new server or update your existing configuration? Do you want a way to automate the entire process and save yourself time and effort? If so, you’re in luck! In this article, we’ll show you how to … Read more

An Introduction to Ansible for Server Automation

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Part 1: Introduction What is Ansible? Ansible is an open-source automation tool that simplifies the management of configuration files and software deployments. It allows you to automate repetitive tasks, such as configuring servers, deploying software, and managing system updates. With Ansible, you can manage large, complex infrastructures with ease, and ensure that your systems are … Read more

The Ultimate Guide to Creating Your Own PXE Server with iPXE for Windows 10 Installation

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If you want to install Windows 10 on multiple computers without having to manually install it on each one, then a PXE server with iPXE is your solution. A PXE (Preboot eXecution Environment) server allows you to boot multiple computers from the network and install the operating system remotely, without the need for physical media … Read more

Setting Up WordPress on Linux with Nginx and PHP-FPM Using Ansible

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Introduction In our previous article, we showed you how to install and set up WordPress on Linux with Nginx and PHP-FPM. In this tutorial, we’ll take things a step further by showing you how to use Ansible to automate the entire process. Ansible is a powerful tool for automating server configuration and deployment tasks, and … Read more

Setting up Email Filtering and Autoresponder Rules using Sieve Scripts in Dovecot

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Introduction In a previous blog post, we showed you how to set up a mail server on Linux using Postfix, Dovecot, Roundcube, ClamAV and Amavis. In this tutorial, we’ll build on that setup by showing you how to use Sieve scripts in Dovecot to filter incoming email messages and set up autoresponder rules. What is … Read more