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Ansible is an open source configuration management, application deployment as well software provisioning tool that is used to deploy, configure & manage servers. Due to ease in using Ansible is one of the easiest & most popular automation tools. It uses YAML, which is easy to learn & does not require you to learn a complicated programming language like Ruby (used in puppet & chef). Also, it does not require any special agent to be installed on client machines & only requires client machines to have python and ssh installed, both of these are usually available on systems.

Glances is an open source real time Linux server monitoring system that aims at providing as much as information possible in as minimum as space possible. Glances is like top command but more refined with many more features & much more real time information of your Linux system.

Earlier we have discussed how we can configure network connections using three different methods i.e. by editing network interface file, by using GUI & by using nmtui command. In this tutorial, we are going to use two other methods to configure network connections on our RHEL/CentOS machines. We are going to discuss 'nmcli' command & 'ifconfig' command in Linux.

SS command in Linux is used to get various network/socket connection-related information from a Linux system. Previously we had used the Netstat command to perform the same operations but it has been long deprecated & was replaced with the ss command in Linux. In this tutorial, we will learn the usage of the SS command with the help of SS command examples.

Unless you have been living under a rock, you would know what SPOTIFY is, but for those who still don’t know. Spotify is now one of the most popular applications to stream music on your Desktop or phone.

Think Netflix but for music.

You can also use the web version on your desktop/laptop using a browser of your choice but then again using a native client app has its own perks. So in this tutorial, we will learn to install Spotify on Ubuntu.

Sharing files between computers set-up across floors, cities, or states is difficult, with an increase in distance and traffic disrupting the flow. To address these concerns we can use FLEXIHUB. It's a software application, which enables us to use USB over the network without any limitations.

SAR or System Activity Report is used for monitoring Linux system resources . It can be used to generate reports relating to performance of a system i.e CPU reports, Memory reports, Disk reports etc. It saves reports in the form of log files on the system.

Echo Command in Linux is one of the most used commands in Bash scripting. It is used to display the ....

Working with MySQL or MariaDB database, you might have faced a situation where you might have forgotten root or another user's password, or being SysAdmin, you might have had to deal with users who have forgotten their password. In this tutorial, we will learn to reset the root password in Mysql or resetting any other user account's password (the same steps can also be used to reset the user's password in MariaDB as well).

MongoDB is an open-source general-purpose, document-based NoSQL database server which uses JSON documents. It is created keeping the current requirements

SSH is one of the most used means to access the Linux servers. In fact, ssh is also used to access a number of firewalls, routers & other such devices. In this tutorial, we will learn how to use SSH command with a password in a single line command.

In this tutorial, we will discuss how to use Terraform for GCP. We will take an example by creating a VPC using Terraform for GCP/Google cloud. This tutorial will demonstrate the complete steps involved in creating the VPC. So let’s start by discussing the prerequisites first.

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ClamAV free & open-source antivirus software that be used to detect virus, trojans, rootkits, malware etc. It is widely used on Linux system to detect the above-mentioned threats. As compared to the Windows systems, Linux...

Speed test by ookla is one of the most trusted websites to check internet speed. It is one of the most popular & widely used tool to check internet speed using your browser. Now it...

Terraform is one of the most widely used applications to use the Infrastructure as Code. It is available for almost all the cloud service providers out there & also can be used for in-house...

Google Cloud SDK is used to manage the google cloud platform using the CLI, command-line interface of your system’s terminal. Google Cloud SDK is basically a collection of tools/commands like bq, gcloud, gsutil, etc for the management of our cloud resources. It supports Linux, Mac & Windows as well.

FSCK is a very important Linux/Unix utility, it is used to check & repair the errors in the file system. It is similar to ‘chkdsk’ utility in Windows operating systems. It is available for Linux, MacOS, FreeBSD operating systems.

Chown command is one of the most important commands in Linux that we should absolutely know about. Those who have some experience with Linux System administration must know that a change in permission or ownership can break your application or even your system. That’s were ‘Chown command’ in Linux comes to the rescue.

Swap-partition holds the memory which is used in case the physical memory (RAM) is full . When RAM capacity has been utilized to maximum , Linux machine moves inactive pages from memory to swap-space which are then used by the system. Though it gets the work done, it should not be considered as a replacement to physical memory/RAM.