Are you confused about LAMP, LEMP, MEAN, XAMPP, WAMP, and AMPPS stack terminology? Let’s find out about them! LAMP LAMP is an acronym for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Each of these components is open source and free to use, which has helped contribute to their popularity. The lamp stack is probably the most common…
Let’s learn the fundamentals of AWS Lambda and how to run a function step by step. Introduction When you are building applications, you want them to deliver an excellent user experience. To make the magic happen, your application needs a backend code that runs in response to events. But managing the infrastructure to host and…
Love Grafana for server metrics monitoring? You’ll love Blackbox Exporter for website monitoring too! In this tutorial, you will learn to install Blackbox Exporter on CentOS/RHEL and understand how to use it with Prometheus and Grafana to monitor website performance and uptime. Prerequisites Prometheus and Grafana must be pre-installed. Follow this article to install Prometheus…
In this article, you will learn how to monitor the global performance of a website with Grafana and worldPing. Features of worldPing: Tests the performance of your applications and uptime With the advanced alerting system, it notifies you about any issue. Gives comparative performance metrics of your competitors Easily shares interactive snapshots with anyone you…
In this tutorial, I will talk about Prometheus and Grafana. You will learn to install both on CentOS/RHEL and understand how to use Prometheus and Grafana to monitor the Linux server. Introduction Grafana is a leading time-series, an open-source platform for visualization and monitoring. It allows you to query, visualize, set alerts, and understand metrics…
Let’s talk about some of the best practices you should follow while using containers. Containerization is widely being used across several organizations to deploy applications inside a container. These containers are popular because they are very lightweight. To leverage the most out of containers, you should follow some best practices while you are working with…
I will show you several operations which an administrator can perform on a remote windows system using ansible-playbook. Ansible is one of the most used DevOps tools in the market today. It provides a bunch of windows modules that are used to configure and manage the Windows server. I assume you already have Ansible installed…
Let me quickly show you how to connect the Windows server from Ansible running on Ubuntu. To follow the steps below, you need to have python 3.x and Ansible installed on both the system. You can follow the below articles if you need help. How to Install and Configure Ansible on Ubuntu? How to install…
There are many short names used in Cloud Service Models, and sometimes it may be confusing. When you get started with Cloud Computing, there are many things to learn. In this article, I will talk about some of the popular cloud service models that are widely used and are a must-know for aspiring cloud architects….
A step-by-step guide to install Headless Chromium on Ubuntu and CentOS. What is Headless Chrome? Headless Chrome is like running a chrome browser without UI (browser) i.e., it is running in a headless environment, which is very useful for running automated tests. So, what does headless Chrome unlock for us? One of the most exciting…
