Jānis Valters
System administrator / DevOps / Ethical Penetration tester
Category Archives: Linux
How to set up a GitLab Runner in Docker

This blog post is about how to set up your own GitLab Runner in a Docker system. If you don’t have your own GitLab yet, then I have already created a blog post, on how to set up your own GitLab in a Docker container the post you can find here Once we have a…
Digital workplace and at the same time your own test lab with Kasm solution

In 2019 COVID-19 shook the world and many companies to continue working started to work remotely. That was a challenging time as I remember that there was a problem to purchase enough laptops large ques to order them and a long wait time, therefore you needed a good communication with the suppliers to get around…
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 )….
Plex media server on Ubuntu 20.04

In the modern 21-century, we have several online media available for example Globally known Netflix.com and Viaplay.com, but let’s say you have made some videos, that you would like to share with your family and friends, or by visiting some people in other countries you want to share some moments or watch some video format…
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…
How to Enable SSH on Kali Linux

By default, Kali Linux doesn’t have SSH enabled since it is more used as a desktop version. But for example, if you have a static IP or VPN to your internal network and would like to access your Kali Linux on what you have needed documents, scripts, or installed services that are needed for Penetration…
How to configure SoftEther VPN on Ubuntu 20.0 LTS

Now if you have read my previous post on “How to Setup SoftEther VPN on Ubuntu 20.0 LTS” and have installed SoftEther VPN, then in this post you will find information How to configure SoftEther VPN. So, let’s get started. Open your Terminal and login to your server with root user or by becoming root…
How to Setup SoftEther VPN on Ubuntu 20.0 LTS

With all the COVID-19 pandemic data thieves have become more active in stealing data and also many companies would like to know more about you or what you do by adding a tracer to Smartphone/Pad applications. Of course, some people have nothing to hide, but it is more a question of principle do you want…
How to install Zabbix Server 5.0 LTS on Ubuntu 20.0 LTS

Today there was planned to come out a tutorial about how to setup self-hosted VPN on Linux Machine, that supports many protocols, but I didn’t finish the second part that also is needed, the VPN configuration part, and therefore since I was needed to install Zabbix on few servers, I created this tutorial that was…