Jānis Valters
System administrator / DevOps / Ethical Penetration tester
Category Archives: DevOps
Docker MySQL container Setup and basic configuration
As we all know, there are several database engines, and some software, website CMS or systems require a specific database engine as its structure is based on that engine. Each database engine has different pluses and minuses, for example, Google to make their search faster uses MongoDB ( or as it is called NoSQL )….
How to set up Gitlab on a Docker and why do you need it?
People that work in the IT field already know, the benefits of Git, how it not only increases your workflow but also helps several teams and team members to work on one project at the same time. Thanks to GIT technology we can do a version controller and at the same time better and faster…
WHMCS In a Docker
Let’s start with a simple thing, what is WHCMS? In my view, WHCMS is a good automated hosting client control system, that can help you run your hosting business. With this tool, you can not only automate selling your shared hosting, VPS, domain, and other hosting services but also automate billing and support. This is…
Zabbix Monitoring system on Docker
If you have several servers that you manage or several websites, you would need to know what is happening with your server resources, is server accessible, is overloaded, or if your website responding to the correct response code. With Zabbix, you can monitor many interesting things and get many metrics that I will be talking…
Easily manage Docker containers ( Portainer )
Once we have set up a Docker ( if you aren’t then you can read here on how to ) there are 2 ways to manage your simple Docker system containers. Is the old-fashioned way, by using the Linux terminal. Is by using a web UI called Portainer, besides Portainer there are also other popular…
Docker Nginx reverse proxy and LE SSL
Docker has become an efficient way of boosting productivity in IT development processes. As the market keeps growing, people want to explore the biggest Docker benefits and they want to know more about this valuable tool. The main question here is: why Docker? Essentially, companies including corporations and developers utilize Docker containers because it is…
What are the benefits of Docker?
Docker has become an efficient way of boosting productivity in IT development processes. As the market keeps growing, people want to explore the biggest Docker benefits and they want to know more about this valuable tool. The main question here is: why Docker? Essentially, companies including corporations and developers utilize Docker containers because it is…
How to install Docker and Docker Compose on Ubuntu 20.04 using Ansible
In this tutorial ( how-to ) I will show you an easy way to install Docker and Docker Compose on a Ubuntu server 20.04 LTS using the well-known DevOps tool Ansible. How this is a basic setup. 1 Requirements To start you would need Ansible, now Ansible you can install on any Linux distributor and…