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DevOps in Windows: In this post I describe some of the settings and changes I made to make my Windows 11 and Ubuntu WSL2 into a fully fledged development environment. Here are the settings and tools I use for DevOps / SysOps on Windows.
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Here is how you can share your SSH keys between Windows 11/10 and WSL 2 if you don't want to copy over your ssh keys from Windows to WSL 2 Linux, or generate new ones.
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Using WSL 2 it is pretty easy to install Hugo in Windows, setting up your local webdevelopment environment and configure Hugo to listen on your Ubuntu's IP address, here is how.
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In this post, I will show you how to connect to your KVM VMs (virtual machines) in Windows 10 via SSH using virt-manager (Virtual Machine Manager) and qemu+ssh://. This allows you to manage your virtual machines from Windows.
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A couple of years ago, I wrote a blog article about setting up Monit monitoring on an Ubuntu VM on Hyper-V. Now it's time to do the same, but then in Windows Subsystem for Linux, or WSL. So, without further ado, here is how to install and configure Monit monitoring in Windows 10 WSL.
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Learn how to benchmark WordPress using simple load and speed testing with ApacheBench.
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When using recursive scp, symbolic links aren't preserved but copied as normal directories. Use tar over ssh to transfer symlinks.
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OpenSSL comes in handy when you need to generate passwords or random strings. For example for system accounts and services. In this short post I'll give you a quick example on how to generate random passwords with OpenSSL in Linux (Bash), Windows and PHP.
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Tunnel Remote Desktop over SSH with PuTTY: Have you ever been in a situation where you needed to perform remote administration on a Windows Server, and the RDP port 3389 is blocked on a firewall? You can tunnel RDP over SSH with PuTTY 🙂
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Easily setting up a monitoring service for websites and services using Monit on Ubuntu/Hyper-V, following these steps.
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Accidentally deleted an Open-Xchange context? Here is how to restore a deleted OX context and its filestore from your MySQL backups with restorecontext.
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Relive the golden age of PC gaming. Learn how to configure DOSBox on Windows 11 to run classic MS-DOS titles, optimize CPU cycles for period-accurate speed, and set up a custom autoexec.bat menu for easy launching.
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Cconvert decimal to hex hexadecimal to decimal and Unix timestamps in Linux Bash. A quicky for my archives.
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How to set up a global Geolocation DNS load balancing Varnish Cache Content Delivery Network with Bind9, geo-ip database, Varnish Cache and DigtalOcean. DIY High-Availability for your website!
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Flush the MySQL or MariaDB query cache to defragment its free memory, manually on the MySQL shell or automatically through a Linux cronjob.
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Minify JavaScript and CSS the easy and fast way, with YUI Compressor and UglifyJS on the Linux, macOS and Windows command line.
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Investigate SMTP authentication issues like a boss! When using TLS encrypted SMTP connections, it's always handy if you are able to create a SMTP logon credentials and test SMTP authentication over a TLS/StartTLS connection. Preferably from your command-prompt.
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I was FedUp with Fedora Core 17/18 after a day, so I decided to return to my old love: Debian GNU/Linux. It's been a couple of years, but I'm happy to be back! Just run the netinst installer which will take care of the most.