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Install MySQL 8 on CentOS 7

How 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

Install latest NGiNX on CentOS 7

In this short tutorial we will learn how to install latest NGiNX version on CentOS 7. In an era of containers and all fancy technologies we have to admit that from time to time we need to look and even go back to the basics and install ourselves, manually services like NGiNX for example. NGiNX is a great web server software being able to perform very well as reverse proxy, load balancer and even as ingress router for container technologies. Indeed the free version of NGiNX may not have all capabilities as the commercial one but still plenty of nice […]

Category: General | Published: | Updated: 30/05/2019

AWS Elastic Beanstalk Environment Scheduling

In this short tutorial we will learn about AWS Elastic Beanstalk Environment Scheduling using a simple Shell Script that can be used as part of a possible large automation project where for example you want to save some money on your bill by turning off and on let’s say specific environments that are not used between specific hours during weekdays or weekends for environments like Development, Staging or QA. This solution can be easily used for example being as a Cronjob on one of your management / admin servers or maybe simply as a Jenkins scheduled job, also can be […]

Category: AWS | Published: 18/04/2019 | Updated: 14/05/2019

Setup AWS CLI on CentOS 7

Setting up AWS CLI on CentOS 7 is quite straight forward, no need for advanced knowledge or a huge amount of time in order to install this. AWS CLI is a very powerful toolset that helps you to manage all your AWS resources by using the Command Line Interface API calls instead of the well known classic Web Console. AWS CLI can be used and implemented in various projects like Automation, Cost Control, Security Audit etc. giving you the power to manipulate and query all AWS resources in a more granular manner. In this very short tutorial we will guide […]

Category: General | Published: 09/04/2019 | Updated: 26/08/2019

Install Python from Source

Python is one of the most used programming language and in this tutorial we will show you how to install Python from source on a CentOS 7 operating system. We can safely say that Python, conceived in the late 1980s by Guido van Rossum, comes these days preinstalled on most Linux distributions. If it is not there by default then we can always install it, for example on CentOS we can get Python using yum utility but as we know that will not be the latest Python version available. We may have a new project that requires to be built […]

Category: General | Published: | Updated: 28/05/2019

List users from multiple AWS accounts using Python

List users from multiple AWS accounts using Python is our next tutorial where we will learn how to access AWS APIs using Boto3 package and also how to use pprint package to list all results in a easy to read format, we heard about the term human readable too but we think is not the right way of saying it, at least not in this particular case. Please rest assured that we won’t talk or debate in this tutorial about what Cloud Hosting provider is the best or not and we will simply resume talking about how to get all […]

Category: Python | Published: 13/11/2018 | Updated: 14/11/2018