This tutorial will show you how to join Ubuntu to an Active Directory Domain quickly and easily, this will allow domain users to logon using their domain account and allows the use of Kerberos authentication with tools such as Ansible. Before I start I’m going to assume you already have a domain controller configured and […]
HBase can be installed in three modes: standalone, pseudo-distributed and distributed – each mode has uses and advantages and disadvantages and slightly different install steps because of it. This article will guide you through the installation of HBase in standalone mode on Ubuntu 18.04. So why use standalone mode? Firstly standalone mode is not recommended […]
Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 of this series can be found at the following locations: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4. Whenever I’ve written about Bosun in the past I’ve always used the official Bosun Docker image provided by Stack Exchange, this has been fine for demonstrations and examples however what […]
A recent problem I came across was setting my Nginx server which is running Ubuntu Server 17.10 to use a static IP address. The normal approach of editing /etc/network/interfaces wasn’t working so I gave up on it and let DHCP do its thing, this worked fine until my Hyper-V server rebooted and then Nginx got a […]
This article will cover installing Nginx (with HTTPS), PHP and Mysql on a Ubuntu 17.10 Server. The first step is to install Ubuntu Server, my installation was done on a virtual machine within Hyper-V however the installation should be the same for pretty much every scenario. SSH was installed when prompted during the installation and […]