In this tutorial, we will setup a basic ruby on rails web app, that consists of a /hello_world and a /status controller. The hello_world controller will return Hello, World and our /status controller will return a HTTP 204
Ruan Bekker
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Capture Geo Location Data with Python Flask and PyGeoIP
With the PyGeoIP package you can capture geo location data, which is pretty cool, for example, when you have IOT devices pushing location data to elasticsearch and visualizing the data with Kibana. That will be one example, but the possibilites
Install Java Development Kit 10 on Ubuntu
With the announcement of improved docker container integration with Java 10, the JVM is now aware of resource constraints, as not from prior versions. More information on this post Differences in Java 8 and Java 10: As you can see
Setup a LAMP Stack with Ansible using Ubuntu
This is Part-2 of our Ansible-Tutorial and in this post we will cover how to setup a LAMP Stack on Ubuntu using Ansible. We will only have one host in our inventory, but this can be scaled easily by increasing
Getting Started with Ansible on Ubuntu
Part 1 - This is a getting started series on Ansible. The first post will be on how to setup ansible and how to reach your nodes in order to deploy software to your nodes. Install Ansible: Ansible relies on
Salt and Hash Example Using Python With Bcrypt on Alpine
This is a post on a example of how to hash a password with a salt. A salt in cryptography is a method that applies a one way function to hash data like passwords. The advantage of using salts is
Tutorial on DynamoDB using Bash and the AWS CLI Tools to Interact with a Music Dataset
In this tutorial we will be using Amazons DynamoDB (DynamoDB Local) to host a sample dataset consisting of music data that I retrieved from the iTunes API, which we will be using the aws cli tools to interact with the
Setup a PPTP VPN on Ubuntu 16
In this post we will setup a PPTP VPN on Ubuntu 16.04 Disable IPv6 Networking: Edit the grub config: $ vi /etc/default/grub Make the following changes: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="ipv6.disable=1" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=
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