How to speed-up an Ansible Playbook

Speed up Ansible

Ansible is an open-source IT automation tool for continuous deployments or zero downtime rolling updates, software deployment, configuration management, and orchestration of more advanced IT tasks. Ansible minimizes the workloads and saves a lot of time during server configuration and application deployment. In some scenarios we do have to maintain a large number of servers … Read more

How to install Reveal.js on Ubuntu 20.04 

RevealJS on Ubuntu 20.04

Reveal.js is a free and open-source HTML presentation framework that enables users to create free, fully-featured, and attractive presentations using a web browser. Users can use web technologies in the presentations using the reveal.js framework. This tool helps to add more CSS styles, add an external web page, include <iframe>and custom user behavior using different … Read more

How to Install urBackup on Ubuntu 20.04

Linux Client/Server Backup

UrBackup is a client/server backup tool that supports image backups as well as file backups. It is available for both Linux and Windows operating systems. A prominent feature of this backup system is that it never interrupts the current working of your system rather the backups are created in parallel while your target system is … Read more

How to install Varnish Cache on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu Varnish Cache

Now more than ever, page loading speed is crucial to any website owner. A few seconds of lag in loading your website will quickly send internet users to the next site leading to high bounce rates and reduced revenue. In fact, page loading speed is a crucial ranking aspect that Google uses to rank websites. … Read more

How to install and use R and RStudio in Linux

R Programming Language

R is a programming language that is mostly used for statistical computing, data mining, and graphics. RStudio is an Open Source and free-to-use integrated development environment (IDE) for R. Prerequisites Before moving to the R and RStudio installation, we need to make sure of some basic things for the smooth run. You need to have … Read more

How to detect and manage devices on Linux

Detect Linux Devices

Many of the Linux beginners coming from Windows know how to manage devices on their Windows systems. But they do not know how to do the same on Linux unfortunately. This is not because Linux is different, rather they are new and unaware of where to find the right help. Here I am going to … Read more

How to Install Ntopng Network Monitoring Tool on Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu Network Monitoring

Ntopng is a web-based application for true network traffic flow monitoring that is available as open freeware. It’s an improved kind of innovative Ntop that displays network use, statistics, and analytical data. It works with a variety of computer systems, including Windows, Linux, Mac OS, and BSD. Ntopng comes in professional and corporate editions with … Read more

How to install LAMP stack on AlmaLinux 8

Linux Apache MySQL PHP on AlmaLinux

LAMP is a popular open-source software stack that is mostly used for testing and hosting web applications. It’s an acronym for Linux Apache MariaDB / MySQL and PHP. It compromises a web server ( Apache ), a database server ( MariaDB or MySQL ), and the PHP scripting language which supports dynamic web pages written … Read more

How to Enable and Disable Network Interfaces in Ubuntu 20.04

Ubuntu Network Interface management

Whenever we operate as an Ubuntu admin, we are responsible for managing the system’s network settings. When you make modifications to the Network card on some kind of Linux system, the connection goes down. The network interfaces seem to be either practically or virtually existent, and you may simply activate them using one of the … Read more