Tag Archives: DevOps

How to Configure Splunk Behind NGINX Reverse Proxy

Splunk is a very popular option for managing and handling logs. Configuring Splunk with nginx reverse proxy can be a headache sometimes. Considering that splunk has been installed correctly and currently serving the web GUI at http://127.0.0.1:8000 Before getting into nginx configuration, splunk itself needs a little bit of configuring. Find web.conf file at ${SPLUNK_HOME}/etc/system/local/ and open it with a text editor…

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How to Configure Jenkins Behind NGINX with SSL

For a production server, I have been trying to get jenkins running behind NGINX a reverse proxy with SSL enabled. What I faced is that there are many configurations available in wiki.jenkins.io but mostly those configurations worked for the authors with different configurations according to their need. I have found a couple of useful instructions but they led me nowhere….

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How to Generate Self Signed SSL Certificates

!WARNING! Self-signed certificates should not be used in production. Almost all the websites nowadays have https enabled and it’s really useful to have https enabled environment while developing. Getting an https enabled environment might cost you money but there is an alternate way of enabling https with self-signed certificates. In this post, we are going to see how we can create self-signed…

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