Microsoft Azure offers many different virtual machines for use, but Windows Server 2019 remains one of the most recent and a commonly deployed operating system. There are several ways to deploy this server OS, but in this article we are going to explor…
DigitalOcean Spaces offers Amazon S3 compatible object storage for a low cost and with a built-in CDN. Especially if you use the DigitalOcean services, Spaces offers a great way to store backup files (when used as a private repository) or even to host …
Amazon Web Services (AWS)’s solution to the relational database is called Amazon Relational Database (RDS). RDS is an AWS service that enables you to manage relational databases in the cloud. RDS provides various kinds of databases, but the one y…
Single Sign-On (SSO) provides much-needed convenience and intrinsic security to sign-on activities for applications. Fortunately enough, SSO works with any web app in your Azure Active Directory, so let’s take a look at how we can set it up.Read This…
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When PowerShell was first released, the goal was to bring powerful scripting tools to Windows, which typically had GUI-based administration at the time. Since then, PowerShell has grown to become one of the most popular scripting languages. At the time…
DigitalOcean is one of the easiest to use cloud virtual machine providers out there. If you need a quickly provisioned computing environment, DigitalOcean virtual machines typically become available in under 60 seconds. Instead of using the user interf…
In the Linux operating system, many applications send logs to syslog, the primary logging mechanism. Best security practices often dictate that it is ideal to send your logs to a separate system, like Loggly, a SaaS solution for log data management.Re…
Azure Logic Apps provide tools for automating workflows. The solution is intended to help build corporate workflows, which are as simple as IFTTT or Zapier, meaning you can chain triggering events, outputs, and inputs together to result in some outcome…
Prior to Ubuntu 18.04, DNS nameservers would traditionally be configured using the /etc/resolv.conf configuration file. For a long time, this file allowed quick and easy configuration of DNS nameservers, as can be seen in an example resolv.conf file be…
While Azure provides many tools, it doesn’t have everything. We will take a look at how you can configure a functional Let’s Encrypt SSL for any Azure Web App, in order to provide it with the necessary level of security for all standard online …
When populating a user config, you might notice that it can look a bit strange. You need to be careful of line breaks and double quotes to avoid breaking the JSON config.Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT ›
Your SSH config file allows you to define specific settings for each SSH host that makes connecting to that host far easier. By defining many of these common, or uncommon, properties within the file, it eliminates the need to remember this parameter se…
Cloud servers don’t have to be Linux-based—Windows server workloads are able to run in AWS and are compatible with most of the built-in services that Amazon offers, including their CloudWatch monitoring tools, though you will have to instal…
Using REST APIs to extend your scripts is a useful feature to implement. You can gain access to new functionalities, and the possibilities to create new more advanced scripts expand.Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT ›
Most of us have done it—deployed temporary VMs to Azure. Something that many of us also have done is to forget to remove resources attached to those VMs when deleting them. This can lead to unwanted costs upwards to thousands of dollars if you…
The Microsoft GraphAPI is a powerful tool to have. Not only can we use it to create tooling to automate our workloads—we can also access new functions earlier.Read This Article on CloudSavvy IT ›
Data is one of the most valuable commodities in the world, and it’s not hard to see why. From marketing to genomics, the analysis of large sets of data leads to predictive models, which steer to favorable outcomes for the business. The more data …
LetsEncrypt changed the SSL certificate world when its offer of free, short-lived, SSL certificates allowed a vast amount of individuals and companies to secure their web applications at no cost. With this service, the necessary infrastructure would ne…
In software development, it seems that no matter where you go, no matter who you talk to, containers are the new normal. If you’re not developing them or migrating your application already, you’re building supporting systems that use them t…