Found 25 results
AWS Switch Role Setup is our next tutorial where we will explain how to setup IAM Policies and IAM Roles in order to switch between multiple AWS accounts without using various credentials for each individual account. Setting up Role Switching within AWS may seem difficult or maybe confusing but in reality this is quite simple and easy to implement. Such a solution will definitely ease your user management tasks and in the same time will give you the flexibility to manage users access in a more granular fashion. For this specific tutorial, which will be a very short one, we […]
Category: AWS | Published: 15/10/2019 | Updated: 15/10/2019AWS Lambda Function to Stop and Start EC2 Instances
AWS Lambda Function to Stop and Start EC2 Instances based on Tags is our next tutorial where we will guide you, step by step, how to save money on AWS monthly bill just by using a simple AWS Lambda Function backed up by a Python script. Nowadays most of the modern companies relies on many cloud technologies from various cloud providers like AWS for pretty much any environments and tiers that we can think of like production, QA, staging, development and so on but everything comes at a price. We can reduce our monthly AWS bill and also, indirectly, becoming […]
Category: AWS | Published: 21/08/2019 | Updated: 24/09/2019NGiNX traffic split or traffic distribution can be very handy in various user cases, for example this can be used to improve security for our websites or web applications. In this particular tutorial we will show you how to make use of this great feature that comes with NGiNX by implementing a simple solution for traffic distribution in order to protect our backend web applications or maybe a websites by simply using two individual backend upstreams. Same traffic management principle using NGiNX, explained below, can be used for various other backend services and solutions within various stacks. Table of contents […]
Category: Security | Published: 03/07/2019 | Updated: 12/08/2019NGiNX Reverse Proxy Caching Setup
NGiNX reverse proxy caching can boost your website or web application loading speed when enabled and properly configured. We all know that NGiNX, at least for now, is one of the best software mainly used for web servers but NGiNX has more amazing capabilities, can be easily used as Reverse Proxy and even as Load Balancer within any stack, can be used in many other cases but these are the common scenarios. In this very short tutorial we will be focusing on its caching capability, more precisely caching with NGiNX when used as Reverse Proxy for backend web servers. Table […]
Category: General | Published: 03/06/2019 | Updated: 07/08/2019Secure NGiNX with Let’s Encrypt SSL on CentOS 7
Just another tutorial from Tufora where we will be showing you how to secure NGiNX with Let’s Encrypt SSL on CentOS 7. As you are well aware NGiNX is a very powerful software that can be used for various applications and workloads being as HTTP server, reverse proxy, load balancer and nowadays even as router for containers, pretty good portfolio we would say. On this tutorial we will be focusing on securing a NGiNX deployment with a SSL certificate issued by Let’s Encrypt (letsencrypt) using certbot utility on a CentOS 7 server. Table of contents Package instalation Generate Diffie–Hellman Exchange […]
Category: Security | Published: 31/05/2019 | Updated: 19/07/2019How to install MySQL 8 on CentOS 7 is our next quick tutorial where we will learn in just a few easy steps how to install and test latest MySQL 8 available – as of today – from Oracle on a CentOS 7 server by using only our terminal window. These days most of modern companies are using Cloud managed services for their databases, some of these with fancy names, different functions, speeds and sizes but sometimes we may have no other choice than to use the classic MySQL. Depending on the project requirements we may have to perform these […]
Category: General | Published: 14/05/2019 | Updated: 19/07/2019