My Journey Learning Prometheus
I've been learning a lot more about DevOps lately and decided to pick up a book called Prometheus: Up & Running to learn the ins and outs of Prometheus. I…
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Add wildcard Let's Encrypt certifications with Namecheap
Let’s Encrypt recently added wildcard certifications but it involves a little more steps than a normal certification process. First you must make sure you have certbot version 0.22.0 or above.…
Read MoreCustom Bash Argument Parser
In this post we will go over implementing a custom argument parser for Bash. You can see the final product here. Some features that I wanted to have are:Parsing command-line…
Read MoreRunning Nightmare.js on a headless server
Nightmare.js is a high level browser automation library. I recently w anted to use it to scrape data off a website that make it fairly difficult to scrape via normal…
Read MoreRun a Cron on the Last Day of the Month
Run everyday to see if it is the last day of the month. If it is then run cron 'command'.
Read MoreNginx "Too many open files" Error Solution for Ubuntu
If you run an Nginx server, you may come across an issue where you’ve reached the limit of how many files Nginx can have open. System wide resources are controlled…
Read MoreConnect to Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN with OpenVPN on Ubuntu
This post will go over using OpenVPN in Ubuntu 16.04 to connect to a Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN server. PIA has pre-made configuration files here which we will use…
Read MoreConfiguring, Installing, and Starting Nginx From Source Code
This post will go over the manual installation and configuration of Nginx source code on a Linux based system. Building from source code instead of directly installing from a pre-built…
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