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Getting Started with Ansible: A Tutorial for Beginners
Ansible, an open-source automation platform, is rapidly gaining popularity among IT experts and organizations seeking simple yet powerful solutions for automation. It streamlines IT operations by automating configuration management, application deployment, and task automation. It speeds up tasks and ensures infrastructure consistency. This Ansible beginner tutorial will take you through the essential steps of getting…
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Connecting VPN Before Windows Logon
The built-in VPN client in Windows, by default, does not let you connect to the VPN server before the user signs in. This poses a challenge for Active Directory-linked computers that connect to the domain network via VPN. Users can log into their systems using stored domain credentials and then establish a VPN connection. However,…
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How to Encrypt Linux LVM with Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) Using Cockpit
Linux’s logical volume management (LVM) system regulates and apportions data on physical disks. This piece elaborates on LVM’s functioning, methods to manage it on a solo volume, and steps for its encryption through Cockpit. Subsequent articles will delve into the arrangement of your Linux distribution with full-disk encryption, Secure Boot, and TPM2.0 integration (akin to…
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How to Renew a WSUS Certificate After a Connection Error
Admins who work with WSUS regularly are used to connection issues of the MMC console. However, it is not clear from the error message what the cause of these problems could be. One possible reason is an expired certificate. After renewing it, you assign it to the WSUS website. For Server Core, you can do…
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Exploring Nested Docker Containers: How to Run Docker Inside a Docker Container
Working with nested Docker containers has several use cases. In this article, I will discuss three methods to create a container inside a Docker container: Docker socket (Dood), dind tag, and Sysbox. You will learn about the advantages and disadvantages of each solution, and I will outline the downsides of nested containers. Use cases for…
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Step-by-Step Guide: Installing Loki and Visualizing Logs Using Grafana
Loki is an open-source log aggregation system developed by Grafana Labs and tailored for cloud-native and containerized apps. Loki is often used in conjunction with Grafana for log visualization. In this guide, I will explain how to install Loki and outline how you can integrate the log aggregation solution with Grafana. Grafana Loki benefits Here…
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How to Uninstall the Azure Arc Setup Feature from Windows Server 2022
October cumulative update KB5031364 for Windows Server 2022 implements a novel Azure Arc Setup facet. Moreover, Azure Arc hasn’t merely been incorporated as an elective component, but it’s now also initiated by default, a distinct icon has emerged in the tray and Start Menu, and irritating alerts have surfaced on the desktop emphasizing the requirement…
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How to Remotely Connect to VirtualBox VMs Using RDP (VRDP)
Users can connect to Virtual Machines (VMs) on a distant machine with the VirtualBox Remote Display Protocol (VRDP) without requiring to activate Remote Desktop (RDP) in the guest OS. This feature allows VirtualBox to host virtual desktops that are accessible from different clients. Similar to VMware Workstation, VirtualBox is a second type of hypervisor that…
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A Comprehensive Guide to Utilizing WPAD (Web Proxy Auto-Discovery Protocol) on Windows
The WPAD (Web Proxy Auto-Discovery) protocol provides an easy solution for proxy settings configuration on the network clients. WPAD is designed such that a client can utilize DHCP and/or DNS to locate a web server within your network holding a PAC configuration file with proxy settings (http://yourdomain/wpad.dat). Create Proxy Auto-Discovery File (wpad.dat) A distinctive PAC…
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Branches on GitHub can be merged.
In this blog post, we will dive deeper into the concept of branches and explore how they can be merged using pull requests (PR) in Git and GitHub. If you’re new to this topic, we highly recommend checking out our previous article to understand the background, code samples, and environment setup. It lays the foundation…