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How to setup Java on Ubuntu 18.04

Most of the devices we use run on JAVA. Therefore, in this CloudSigma tutorial, you will learn how to setup JAVA on Ubuntu 18.04 server. JVM (JAVA Virtual Machine) is required to run various kinds of software like Jenkins, Tomcat, etc. In addition, JAVA Development Kit (JDK) is used to compile and run some specific JAVA Based Softwares. Using the …

MongoDB

How to setup & optimize MongoDB in Ubuntu in the public cloud

Businesses imply lots of data and that makes the problem of handling and managing it harder. Traditionally, the industry has been using RDBMS systems over the decades now, but with the advent of Big Data in the 21st century, NoSQL (Not only SQL) databases came into the picture for large scale unstructured and semi-structured data. In this post, I am …

Docker Ubuntu

How to install & operate Docker on Ubuntu in the public cloud

Docker is one of the most popular products in organizations these days. It makes the process of managing applications in containers very easy. Docker provides portability, performance, agility, scalability and isolation to the applications, since it uses containers, which are more portable and require less resources than virtual machines. In this tutorial, you will go through the steps required to …

Cloudflare

Cloudflare Access: Securing Access to Web Applications

In these times of uncertainties, the global trend is to make the working environment more agile and the work tools more portable. Never has been more important than during the COVID19 crisis with the requirement to work remotely from the main corporate office locations. Cloudflare Access replaces traditional corporate VPN clients by putting Cloudflare’s global edge network in front of …

VPN server under Docker

Run your own VPN server under Docker with OpenVPN Access Server

In this tutorial, I will be setting up an Open VPN server under Docker with CloudSigma. With CloudSigma’s cloud locations spread all over the globe, you can create a server in any of them and access the content from there. Creating the machine First, I am creating a machine with the following resources: 20 GHz CPU 16 GB RAM 20 …

How to use vnStat and iftop

How to use vnStat and iftop to monitor data consumption within a VM

In the generation of cloud computing, virtual machines (VMs) have become very common, while the usage of physical machines has started to gradually decrease. In this post, we will introduce the tools, ‘vnStat’ and ‘iftop,’ which we can use to monitor data consumption in a VM. First, I am creating a machine with the following resources: 20 GHz CPU 16 …

Installing Hadoop Tutorial

Installing Hadoop on a Single Node in Five Simple Steps

Welcome to our guide on installing Hadoop in five simple steps. To start with, the Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models. It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each offering local computation and storage. Rather …

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Host your own Git Repositories with GitLab

In this post, I am going to demonstrate the installation of GitLab. With GitLab, we can host our own repositories at a central place with the ease of the Git features. GitLab is the first single application for all stages of the DevOps lifecycle. Only GitLab enables Concurrent DevOps, unlocking organizations from the constraints of the toolchain. In addition, GitLab …

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Setting up a Big Data Cluster on Cloudera Tutorial

CDH is Cloudera’s 100% open source platform distribution, including Apache Hadoop and built specifically to meet enterprise demands. CDH delivers everything you need for enterprise use right out of the box. By integrating Hadoop with more than a dozen other critical open source projects, Cloudera has created a functionally advanced system that helps you perform end-to-end Big Data workflows. (Source). …

Simple Server Creation

CloudSigma How To Series: Simple Server Creation

This is the first in a series of brief how-to tutorials. The series will cover some of the most used features of our cloud. We hope you find them useful in getting from A to B with your cloud computing at CloudSigma. CloudSigma offers two approaches to server creation – a quick and simple creation process and a detailed, flexible …