From zero to WordPress in less than 2 minutes on Linode using cloud-init and/or Terraform
Yeah, it’s true. You can get a fully running VM with installed MySQL, Apache, PHP and WordPress configured in less than 2 minutes! 1:58 to be exact 🙂 Ok, what is cloud-init in the first place? Cloud-init is a widely…
Building your IT landscape on Akamai Connected Cloud – Part 3 – Writing down requirements
Part 1 – Intro Part 2 – Defining the project Part 3 – this post Welcome to the third post of “Building your IT landscape on Akamai Connected Cloud” series. In this post we will start writing and breaking down our FR’s…
Linode’s Metadata service is live!
Linode finally introduced an internal metadata service! <3 I’m sure all of you have been in a situation where after deploying Compute Instances, it’s almost always needed to perform additional configuration before your server is ready to do any real…
How to deploy a DHCP server in a Linode VLAN
When a VLAN is assigned to a network interface and given an IPAM address, the Compute Instance should automatically be able to communicate over that private network. This is due to Network Helper, which is enabled by default on most instances….
Deploying Linode Marketplace StackScripts with Terraform
Recently, I needed to deploy a 3 node Redis Cluster from Linode’s Marketplace. Quick glance at Linode’s Terraform provider shows that we can deploy instances using StackScripts, but in order to do that, we need to specify the StackScript ID….
Installing and configuring 2FA enabled web managed access solution (jumphost) to any infrastructure deployed on Akamai Connected Cloud Compute – part 2
In previous post, we deployed our Cockpit server which we will use as a jump host/tunnel. For us to actually start using the solution, we need to do a few things: Creating users Creating users is extremely easy doing Cockpit;…
Building your IT landscape on Akamai Connected Cloud – Part 2 – Defining the project
Related posts Part 1 – Intro Part 2 – this post Welcome to the second part of the “Building your IT landscape on Akamai Connected Cloud” series. In this post we will define the basic scenario and requirements for our…
Building your IT landscape on Akamai Connected Cloud – Part 1 – INTRO
Related posts Part 1 – Intro Part 2 – Defining the project Intro These blog post series will serve as an example on how to utilize Akamai Connected Cloud to build and run your company’s IT landscape. In the series…
Installing and configuring 2FA enabled web managed access solution (jumphost) to any infrastructure deployed on Akamai Connected Cloud Compute – part 1
First, let’s start by defining what a “jumphost” is. Jumphost is nothing more than a server or a collection of servers whose only purpose is to provide a single entry point to different segments of your infrastructure. A typical configuration…