Windows Admin Center (WAC) is a browser-based, locally deployed management tool for IT Admins to manage Windows Server and Windows 10 systems. Windows Admin Center is now production ready and will continue to grow and mature. In this post, I’m just going to cover the bare-basics of getting it up…
This guide assumes you already have a working LAMP server, and have already met the WordPress requirements. Prerequisites The WordPress requirements as of 2018 February: PHP 7.2 or greater MySQL 5.6 or greater OR MariaDB 10.0 or greater Nginx or Apache with mod_rewrite module HTTPS support PHP-JSON (required for wp-cli)…
This will guide you through the process of setting up a Fedora 27 LAMP server with SSL (https) from Let’s Encrypt. Installing Fedora 27 Install Fedora 27 via Net Install ISO. In Software Selection, select Minimal Install. It may take a minute to download metadata before you can go in…
Relax-and-Recover allows you to back up a Linux server by creating a bare-metal image of the system. This can be stored any number of places such as on the network, tape, USB, etc. It can also be used to migrate a Linux installation to another host. ReaR is not for…
There are quite a few steps you need to take to harden your server in the context of security. These should be done no matter your deployment scenario, but is especially true if your server is facing the public internet.
Salt consists of a master server that controls or manages client servers and computers. The master server is known as the Salt-Master and the clients are known as Salt-Minions. This is PART 1: Installing and Configuring SaltStack PART 2 will be all about managing minions. Installing the Salt-Master Following the…
Hyper-V does not expose Virtualization Extensions to Linux VMs (for nested virtualization) automatically. However, Microsoft provides a PowerShell script to run against the Linux VM in which you want to use nested virtualization. The PowerShell script runs a few basic Hyper-V PowerShell commands against the VM, which basically enable the…
This guide will show you how to get GitLab running on a new Fedora 26 VM using your internal PKI for SSL access. In PowerShell on your Hyper-V Hypervisor: New-VHD -Path “E:\Hyper-V\Virtual Hard Disks\gitlabServer.vhdx” -SizeBytes 500GB -Dynamic -BlockSizeBytes 1MB After Fedora 26 is installed: dnf install hyperv-daemons hypervvssd hyperv-tools Disable…
This is the second part of a two-part series. Part 1 (Server Prep – Setting up the server) >>> Part 2 (Kimchi Set-up – Getting things going) <<< This part focuses on configuring Kimchi storage, network, and templates so you can get your first VM going. Kimchi Set-up After you…
This is the first part of a two-part series. >>> Part 1 (Server Prep – Setting up the server) <<< Part 2 (Kimchi Set-up – Getting things going) I created this guide because there is not any real info out there on how to do this. It took me a…