Though there are many, what are some practical uses? In this article, we explore one potential use case, that of performing redirects directly on the edge. Once you sign on to the CloudFlare Dashboard, you will notice an icon for Workers. Let’s take a look at the development environment to understand how this can help us. There are three main sections. On the left side, we have a code editor and on the right, we have two views....
If you need a quickly provisioned computing environment, DigitalOcean virtual machines typically become available in under 60 seconds. Instead of using the user interface (UI), it’s often best to automate. In this article, we explore how to use Terraform to provision a DigitalOcean Droplet (virtual machine). Installing Terraform Terraform is available for a multitude of platforms, Windows and Linux alike. The following steps outline how to create a new API key specifically for use with Terraform....
Since then, PowerShell has grown to become one of the most popular scripting languages. (If you ever have trouble keeping these two straight, just imagine it tipping over. The best practice here is to keep directory names in lowercase, no matter what path you use. It’s much easier to pop in or than even with tab completion. That’s especially true for Linux and macOS systems. and running on Windows 10 vs Ubuntu Linux....
Quick Links Peacock TV is NBC’s streaming service. If you decide it’s not for you, canceling your subscription is pretty easy. Just don’t plan on using your mobile app. This means canceling your account on an Android phone or iPhone requires opening a surfing app. smack the red “Cancel Plan” link. Peacock will send you to a confirmation screen. you might downgrade or upgrade your subscription in just a few seconds....
In this article, Ubuntu is the distribution of choice, notably that of 18.04. Instructions for other distributions are locatedhere. There are two main packages we need to install for rsyslog. Beyond the base package itself, thersyslog-gnutlspackage allows us to use an encrypted connection to the Loggly service. Configuring Loggly Over time, the configuration directives and syntax have changed for rsyslog. Often, there is a mix of the old and new directives available....
Quick Links Azure Logic Apps provide tools for automating workflows. So, if you want to monitor your website, you’re able to do that. And that’s what we are going to do in this article. We will attempt to send out a return signal every quarter-hour to an endpoint. You should already have a personal Gmail account. In the config blade, you should provide a name for the App. We can move on to configuring the probe....
Starting in Ubuntu 18.04, data pipe prefs, including nameservers, are now controlled through theNetPlaninterface. So, what prompted this change to using the new NetPlan interface? Using a human-readable YAML file makes configuring complex networking configurations far easier to do. In addition, debugging is quicker and errors are easier to track. Instead of using/etc/resolv.conf, navigate to/etc/netplan, and you may find a series*.yamlfiles there. NetPlan will load these files in the following directory order of precedence and then by the preceding number order....
Quick Links While Azure provides many tools, it doesn’t have everything. What Is Let’s Encrypt? But what’s the catch? Can it really be that simple? Well, the SSL certifications only last 90 days, not multiple years like other certs can. Nonetheless, there is a reason for this. But it is possible to do without this. The account should not be of BlobStorage, because it won’t work. It should be of either “Storage” or “StorageV2....
In this way, it is easy to get started and not break any existing scripts. The following steps outline how to create a new API key specifically for use with Terraform. To authenticate, we need the following, as pulled from the documentation. This is accomplished via OAuth, which is a substitute for a username and password. This token, therefore, must be well-protected as it will allow full access to a DigitalOcean account....
It’s important to keep an eye on permissions within the.sshfolder. Most SSH clients want the files to be mode within this folder. An example of a simple configuration is below. As you might tell from the above configuration, this is about as basic as one can get. By defining this connection, on the command line we can simply do the following. The connection will usually prompt for a password, as an SSH connection should not be unprotected....
Running servers in on-prem data center may mean having an infrastructure-monitoring solution that runs alongside each server. This solution often consumes just as many resources as the software it’s supposed to be monitoring! AWS’s solution to this problem isCloudWatch. CloudWatch is an AWS service that captures the logs and server metrics from various sources. CloudWatch collects information from resources like EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances or on-prem servers. It then consolidates them into one central location in AWS....
Why can’t we just pay for the channels we want? “A It’s something TV watchers have hoped to see for decades. But nowthese cheaper services are consistently climbing in price. YouTube TV is now almost double what it cost per month when it launched in 2017. YouTube TV tries to justify its higher price with intangibles. When are we getting the real a-la-carte TV experience? When can we pay for just what we watch, nothing more and nothing less?...
The biggest difference is the operating system: the Surface Go 2 runs Windows, the Duet runs ChromeOS. There are also big differences in value, software, and hardware to consider. Even with the keyboard, the Duet has a starting retail price of $280. Hardware But that lower price does come with a few sacrifices. For example, those low specs mean that it can only drive an external monitor at 1440x900 resolution....
