Concept Review (Volunteer Mentor/Tutor)

1. What is RADIUS?
   • Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service
   • It provides functionality similar to AD, so what does Active Directory do?
   • You can configure RADIUS to protect access to all kinds of resources: a...

In a previous post we completed our K8 PI Cluster, we're now going to configure everything necessary to utilize the Kube Dashboard for monitoring and — optionally — managing our deployment graphically.

The following command will deploy the base...

Creating a Custom Linux Service

It often useful to create custom services to perform tasks without user intervention. They are flexible allowing you to customize or extend functionality whenever you need, and allow you the granularity of control to...

You may find my language uncharacteristically terse in this post, this is due to the large scope of topics we'll touch on. I consider any Kubernetes work: implementation, development or administration complex resulting from the number of technical...

Prerequisites:

• A device or single board computer with at least 512MB of RAM
• 2GB+ Micro SD Card
• Internet connection
• Router admin console access

Begin by ensuring a static IP address is set on your device (or make...

Since I know you'll be working from multiple operating systems, we're going to start by ensuring we're all operating from a homogenous environment.

To accomplish this, we'll start by SSHing into a Windows 2019 Server to get some hands...

Let's break the following command down into its individual components

Get-EventLog -LogName Security -ComputerName REHl8SERV1, CENTOSSERV2 -Verbose

Components:

• Command: Get-EventLog
• Parameter Name 1: -LogName
  • Parameter Value 1: Security
• Parameter Name 2: -ComputerName
  • Parameter Value 2 (multiple): REHl8SERV1, CENTOSSERV2
• Parameter...

Dissection of an Nginx Reverse Proxy Configuration

Really, just the Server Blocks portion (equivalent to VirtualHosts for Apache challenged folks)

Below is the configuration file for this blog/web application which sits within /etc/nginx/conf.d/ known as

devopsblog.conf

Line by line let's review...