Tutorials
Setup AlibabaCloud OSS on Windows VM
Setting up AlibabaCloud OSS on Windows VM (ECS) is our next tutorial where we will demonstrate how easy is to setup AlibabaCloud Object Storage Service on a Windows VM or Elastic Compute Service (ECS) how is the product called. AlibabaCloud may not be so popular outside China borders but we can say that is quite a major player on the cloud market, their offering is as good as Amazon AWS, Google Cloud Platform or Microsoft Azure but the only thing that makes AlibabaCloud appealing is the fact that currently is the only company that provides a full range of cloud […]
Category: AlibabaCloud | Published: 09/09/2019 | Updated: 24/09/2019Setup Squid proxy with caching on CentOS
Squid Proxy setup with caching on CentOS is our next short tutorial where we will learn how to install Squid in just a few easy steps, with caching enabled on a CentOS VM. Squid is still one of the best software for setting up a proxy that comes packed with many great features like caching, authentication and many others despite the fact that it has a very small footprint in terms of resources compared to many other solutions available on the market. By using Squid’s caching feature we can save a lot of bandwidth and we can even reduce the […]
Category: General | Published: 26/08/2019 | Updated: 13/09/2019AWS 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: 24/09/2019AWS S3 Read-Write IAM Policy for specific User
In this AWS S3 Read-Write IAM Policy tutorial we will talk about how to create and manage AWS IAM Policies for specific AWS S3 Buckets, policies that can be easily applied to any user or user group within IAM having Read and Write permissions only. We all know that AWS S3 is a really great storage service but used in conjunction with IAM this can become a very powerful tool giving us the freedom and the also the ability to fine tune all necessary permissions in such a way to only allow specific user or user group to only read […]
Category: AWS | Published: 09/08/2019 | Updated: 12/08/2019AWS S3 Read-Only IAM Policy for specific User
In this short tutorial called AWS S3 Read-Only IAM Policy for specific User or User Group we will be guiding you how to create and manage AWS IAM Policies for specific AWS S3 Buckets, these policies can be later applied to any IAM Users or IAM User Groups having just Read-Only permissions. AWS S3 is a great storage service but managed in conjunction with AWS IAM can become a very powerful tool giving us the freedom and the amazing ability to tweak all needed permissions in such a way to only allow specific users or user groups to only read […]
Category: AWS | Published: 23/07/2019 | Updated: 10/08/2019NGiNX 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: 12/08/2019