This tutorial will demonstrate how to write an Ansible playbook so that you can automate the installation and configuration of NGINX on a Ubuntu Server. The playbook will install NGINX, remove the default website, create a new virtual host and deploy a static website.
By Tony Mackay
This tutorial will show you how to inject environment variables into your Ansible playbooks. This allows the playbook to be stored inside a Git repository without exposing secrets.
By Tony Mackay
This tutorial will show you how to create an Ansible playbook that makes it easy to automate the creation and renewal of Let's Encrypt SSL certificates.
By Tony Mackay
This guide will show you how to write an Ansible playbook that will automate the deployment of a DigitalOcean Droplet (VPS) and configure it to host a static website with NGINX.
By Tony Mackay
This tutorial will show you how to install and configure Jenkins on Ubuntu Server 18.04. We will also install the Blue Ocean plugins so that you have a better UI for creating Pipelines.
By Tony Mackay
This guide will show you how to install Dnsmasq on FreeNAS and configure it so that your Virtual Lab can resolve hostnames to IP addresses.
By Tony Mackay
This guide will show you how to create a FreeNAS VM with VMware Fusion and configure it to work with ESXi so that you can test features like VMotion in your virtual lab. We will also setup multipathing and make sure failover works when an iSCSI NIC or switch fails.
By Tony Mackay
This tutorial will show you how to add extra network adapters to VMware Fusion VMs with an example of how to configure them in Ubuntu once added.
By Tony Mackay