SSL Labs provide a free tool that lets you check the security of your web servers SSL configuration. The tool performs a scan of your server and generates a report with A+ being the best. This tutorial will show you the steps involved in getting an A+ for an NGINX server.
25 Aug 2020
This tutorial will show you how to use Ansible to generate a Let's Encrypt certificate and deploy it to an NGINX server along with a static website. After running the playbook, NGINX will be configured to have an A+ SSL Labs rating.
24 Aug 2020
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.
23 Aug 2020
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.
22 Aug 2020
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.
21 Aug 2020
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.
4 Aug 2020
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.
1 Jun 2020
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.
20 May 2020