Tag Archives: 2018
Ansible and Dynamic Amazon EC2 Inventory Management
To create amazon ec2 instances dynamically and to manage them I have followed the following instructions-I have chosen Ubuntu 16.04 as my ansible controller machine and will be using an ubuntu AMI. I have also generated some credentials from amazon’s IAM. Add the credentials into environment variables. export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID='YOUR_AWS_API_KEY' export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY='YOUR_AWS_API_SECRET_KEY' To get started with dynamic EC2 inventory management, we…
Free != Open Source
As I was talking with a couple of my friends the other day, it came to my attention that most of them don’t know the difference between free software and open-source software, although all of them are computer/software engineers with one or more master’s degree. Isn’t that pathetic? At this point, two things come to…
How to Install NGINX in Ubuntu
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, a mail proxy server, and a generic TCP/UDP proxy server. Install NGINX Installing nginx is pretty easy and starlight forward. To install nginx use the following command(s) sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get -y install nginx These should install and start the web-server service. To check the current status of nginx,…
How to Install Jenkinks 2.0 in Ubuntu
Jenkins is one of the most popular open-source automation/build servers with a lot of plugins to support building, deploying, and automating any project. Prerequisites Java 11 Install Jenkins Installing jenkins from repository in ubuntu 16.04.6 server requires repository list modification to install and receive updates for Jenkins itself. To start the installation process we need to add the jenkins official repository key…
How to Install OpenJDK (JAVA) in Ubuntu
Installing java in Linux/UNIX based system can be a bit tricky sometimes because it requires the user to set an environment variable called JAVA_HOME and finding the right version of java can be sometimes overwhelming. To stay in the open-source realm, we will use openjdk-8-jdk. First, we need to make sure that currently, there is no…