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 ..
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 ..
One of the reasons why you may consider setting up a local apt repository server is to minimize the bandwidth required if you have multiple instances of Ubuntu to update. Take for instance a situation where you have 20 or so servers that all need to be updated twice a week. You could save a ..
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. ..
Introduction Nginx is a high performance web server that is responsible for handling the load of some of the largest sites on the internet. It is especially good at handling many concurrent connections and excels at serving static content. While many users are aware of Nginx’s capabilities, new users are often confused by some of ..
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 ..
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 ..
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, ..
Introduction This article and the image have been created by a joint effort between Bacula Systems S.A, bytemine GmbH, and ProfitBricks GmbH. We offer an image with a basic Bacula install that should cover everything you need to get started with Bacula Enterprise and cloud storage. We will show you how use Bacula to build ..
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 ..
