This guide walks you through how to configure strongSwan for integration with Google Cloud VPN. This information is provided as an example only. This guide is not meant to be a comprehensive overview of IPsec and assumes basic familiarity with the IPsec protocol. Environment overview The equipment used in the creation of this guide is as follows: Topology ..

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Before you begin Before shrinking a WSL2 virtual disk, you need to ensure that WSL2 is not running. You can check if it’s running with the command ‘wsl.exe –list –verbose‘ in PowerShell: PowerShell PS C:\Users\valorin> wsl.exe –list –verbose NAME STATE VERSION * WLinux Running 2 Debian Stopped 2 Ubuntu-18.04 Stopped 2 kali-linux Stopped 2 It ..

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Traditional storage management I use the phrase traditional storage management to describe the process of partitioning, formatting, and mounting storage capacity from a basic hard disk drive. I contrast this standard partitioning with an alternative method called Logical Volume Manager, or LVM. Storage space is typically managed based on the maximum capacity of individual hard disk drives. ..

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Apache Install A basic Apache install is very easy: # sudo aptitude install apache2 apache2.2-common apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils libexpat1 ssl-cert ServerName Towards the end of the install you will see this warning: apache2: Could not reliably determine the server’s fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName Although I’ll be going into some detail about the ..

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ExternalDNS is a relatively new Kubernetes Incubator project that makes Ingresses and Services available via DNS. It currently supports AWS Route 53 and Google Cloud DNS. There are several similar tools available with varying features and capabilities like route53-kubernetes, Mate, and the DNS controller from Kops. While it is not there yet, the goal is for ExternalDNS to include all of the functionality of the other options by 1.0. In ..

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Anyone who has spent time developing Spark applications (or any other distributed application for that matter) has probably wished for some x-ray goggles into the black-box machinery of the framework. While Spark provides a nice and increasingly feature-rich UI for checking on the status of running tasks and even gives statistics on things like runtime, memory usage, ..

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Step 1: Install Java 8 (JDK 8)Open terminal and enter the following commands.sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:webupd8team/javasudo apt-get updateecho debconf shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 select true | sudo debconf-set-selectionsecho debconf shared/accepted-oracle-license-v1-1 seen true | sudo debconf-set-selectionssudo apt-get -y install oracle-java8-installer Setup JAVA Environmentsudo apt-get -y install oracle-java8-set-default Step 2: Verify JAVA VersionAfter successfully installing oracle java using above step ..

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