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Setting up the Kubernetes dashboard in Minkube

Containerization and orchestration (in our case, Kubernetes) is amazing, cutting-edge technology. Even though Kubernetes is pretty solid, there still may be a need to look at logs and see things from a UI

  • Michael Levan
    Michael Levan
2 min read
test

Testing Integrations

This is a test. Please ignore... Or comment :D

  • Chris Kennedy
    Chris Kennedy
1 min read
linux

Linux Tip of the Week: Cool Permissions

Today is the start of a new week! Well, for a lot of us. I know some of you crazy, eccentric people start your week on Monday. You can stick around, but start

  • Chris Kennedy
    Chris Kennedy
2 min read
personal

One Year Later...

To Whom It May Concern,If you're reading this right now, then, you know, it happened. Wow, that was pretty ominous, yeah? Let's dial that darkness and creepiness back and start celebrating! The

  • Chris Kennedy
    Chris Kennedy
4 min read
saa-c01

AWS Solutions Architect Study Notes

Great success!!! I have recently made it official, I obtained the AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification by passing the SAA-C01 exam! Resources Used for StudyingOkay so how did I do it? Before my

  • Phil Afable
    Phil Afable
5 min read

Spinning up a K8s cluster with Kubeadm

In today's world, we have several public cloud technologies that will ultimately help us with spinning up these infrastructures. This however comes with a price. Because a public cloud provider (like AWS or

  • Michael Levan
    Michael Levan
4 min read
shell

Bash Positional Parameters

Hello everyone! It's been too long. I have had a script in the works for a long time to assist me with KVM builds. I started very small, just rerunning the script in

  • Chris Kennedy
    Chris Kennedy
4 min read
aws

Creating a Bastion Host on AWS

So you maybe wondering why I'm creating this tutorial, when I already have a setup in Azure (see blog entry here)? Well to keep things simple, I have been studying the AWS Solutions

  • Phil Afable
    Phil Afable
5 min read

Happy New Year

Happy New Year from The rollBak! Late? Sure. No idea why this is here? Me either! WE'VE BEEN HACKED.Jk. Just doing some tests and maintenance. Carry on!

  • Chris Kennedy
    Chris Kennedy
1 min read
Azure

Creating a Jump / Bastion Host on Azure

Hello Rollbak friends and happy 2019! I figured I'd start the year fresh with a cloud related topic and provide a tutorial on setting up an Azure lab environment. I have decided to

  • Phil Afable
    Phil Afable
7 min read

Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform - Part 2 Into the cluster in GCP! Create our first pod

Now that our cluster is up and running (please see part 1 to see up your K8s cluster), let's take a look inside!Once we click on the cluster, we see some well-written

  • Michael Levan
    Michael Levan
3 min read

Test your Python3 code in VSCode with a Docker container

With great code, comes great testing (or so we hope).This blog post will require the following:1. VSCode installed.2. Docker extension in VSCode.3) Docker for Mac or Windows.4. A

  • Michael Levan
    Michael Levan
4 min read

Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform - Part 1 Set up GCC

Moving into a containerized world can be tricky and confusing at first. The orchestration portion of containers and the ability to scale them can be the trickiest. In this 3 part series, we're

  • Michael Levan
    Michael Levan
3 min read

Docker on Windows - Part 3 Creating A Container with Docker Compose

Welcome back and thank you for checking out my third and final blog post in the series of running Docker on Windows. In the first blog post, we set up Docker on Windows.

  • Michael Levan
    Michael Levan
5 min read
configuration management

SaltStack Execution Modules

Saltstack's execution modules allows you to run specific modules written in python that will conduct system management tasks on remote servers. What does this mean? Let's say you want to upgrade all of

  • Phil Afable
    Phil Afable
2 min read
podcast

December 2: Episode with Paul Joyner

Hello everyone! I thought this episode deserved its own "post", as Twitter usually takes a minute to update, plus I want to be able to reference this in the future ;) Today we had

  • Chris Kennedy
    Chris Kennedy
1 min read
version control

Git Branches

Creating git branches are an integral part of a devops workflow. It allows you and your colleagues to work on a project without affecting the main development branches.  Also branches allow for a

  • Phil Afable
    Phil Afable
2 min read

Docker on Windows - Part 2 Creating A Container

Welcome back and thank you for joining me on this epic journey! On part 1 of the Docker series, we went over installation and configuration of Docker on Windows. Today, we will bring

  • Michael Levan
    Michael Levan
3 min read

Docker on Windows - Part 1 Installation & Configuration

As we go through the journey of distributed applications and containers, there's an up-and-comer, Microsoft. Microsoft has been in the container game since Server 2016, and it is now available on Windows 10.

  • Michael Levan
    Michael Levan
3 min read
code

Programming with Go: Installation

Welcome to The rollBak's Programming with Go Code-Along! This is going to be a structured, in-depth series that covers the Go programming language. We're going to start with the bare minimum of basics,

  • Chris Kennedy
    Chris Kennedy
7 min read
Web Development

Creating a Web App Using NodeJS

At some point in every techies life they have dabbled with creating a website. Websites sounds complicated... sort of, but not really. There are tons of hosting providers that will host your site

  • Phil Afable
    Phil Afable
5 min read
networking

Intro to GNS3 and Layer 3 Routing (OSPF)

When it comes to network emulation GNS3 is as close as you can get. Packet Tracer is a great alternative however some commands do not function as intended or are completely lacking. GNS3

  • Phil Afable
    Phil Afable
20 min read

Utilizing Python3 to manage AWS

So, here we are. Deep into cloud architecture, getting our feet wet in application deployment/distributed systems, and we find ourselves doing a ton of manual tasks. These manual tasks could be point/

  • Michael Levan
    Michael Levan
5 min read
unix

Creating NFS Shares

There comes a time when you're working on multiple servers or nodes that need the same files or resources to function. You can upload everything you need to each instance, but that doesn't

  • Phil Afable
    Phil Afable
2 min read

Building an AWS EC2 instance with CloudFormation

Welcome back and thank you for taking the time to read my blog. After the last few blog posts being about Docker, Kubernetes, and micro-apps, I wanted to switch gears and jump into

  • Michael Levan
    Michael Levan
4 min read
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