How to install Seafile on Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr)

How to install Seafile on Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr)

How to install Seafile on Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr)Seafile is a OpenSource cloud storage software. It offers file sharing and syncing for individual users and groups, it provides client side encryption and easy access from mobile devices. This tutorial describes the steps to install Seafile on Ubuntu 14.04.Installing the Seafile dependenciesList of dependencies as describedJava Runtime Environment (JRE)Poppler-utils Libreoffice 4.1+ and Python-uno    libpython 2.7Python libraries (make sure python 2.7 is included in this installation, you may verify using the command on the image 1.2, if its

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How to use Dropbox Cloud Storage in Ubuntu 15.04

How to use Dropbox Cloud Storage in Ubuntu 15.04

How to use Dropbox Cloud Storage in Ubuntu 15.04Canonical was the first Linux Distribution to integrate its own cloud service into its Linux Distribution Ubuntu, but, unfortunately, their cloud storage is lagging behind other services feature wise. Thanks to the work of many developers, Ubuntu is resolving these shortcomings and is making other Cloud services available trough the Ubuntu Software Center. One of these developments is “Dropbox for Ubuntu”. Dropbox synchronizes folders in your PC with a virtual hard disk on the cloud. This tutorial shows the installation of Dropbox in Ubuntu 15.04

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Two Factor Authentication for ownCloud

Two Factor Authentication for ownCloud

Two Factor Authentication for ownCloudenlighten your own Cloud using two factors to authenticateby arnobabotte @pixabayIn this tutorial, I will show you how to protect your ownCloud installation with privacyIDEA, which you can be used to manage the second authentication factors of your users.ownCloud is a system to store your own or your companies data not on someone else’s computer (a.k.a “the Cloud”) but on your very own computer under your control. privacyIDEA is a system to manage authentication devices for two factor authentication in your own network – not at any Identity Provider – thus

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How to install ownCloud 8 on Debian 8 (Jessie)

How to install ownCloud 8 on Debian 8 (Jessie)

How to install ownCloud 8 on Debian 8 (Jessie)What is ownCloud? OwnCloud is a OpenSource file sync and share software that can be hosted on your own server. It provides access to files trough an intuitive web interface and by WEBDAV. There are also native clients for Windows, Linux, MAC and mobile operating systems available that allow easy syncing between folders of your local PC or mobile device and the ownCloud instance on your server. There are many apps and addons available for ownCloud like a PDF viewer, an email client, calendar and a task tracker. The full list of apps can be found her

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How to monitor free disk space at Amazon EC2 with Cloud Watch

How to monitor free disk space at Amazon EC2 with Cloud WatchAs you know Amazon AWS is a great platform to develop a Cloud Infrastructure. It supposedly covers every aspect that is needed for a whole IT infrastructure. With amazon AWS, you can implement Virtual Servers, CDN, Monitoring, Performance Boosting, Scaling on demand, Storage at low cost, Big Data and so on.The focus of today is the interaction between virtual server instances (Amazon EC2) and the server monitoring service Cloud Watch.Cloudwatch is a great tool that offers a lot of ready to use parameters, but one missing function is

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How to sync your documents with Google Drive on Ubuntu

How to sync your documents with Google Drive on Ubuntu

How to sync your documents with Google Drive on UbuntuGoogle Drive is a popular online service that allows for the easy sharing and collaborative editing of documents (word files or spreadsheets). Under the most usual day to day circumstances, the GDrive tool is very useful serving as a cloud space and/or a readily available online collaboration platform. On this guide, we will see how you can install an open source client tool for the service named Grive, and how to set it up according to your needs.Grive InstallationThe Grive client can be downloaded as a source or as a deb package from the

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Install CloudPanel Control Panel on Debian 10

Install CloudPanel Control Panel on Debian 10

Install CloudPanel Control Panel on Debian 10CloudPanel is a free, open-source, and powerful server Control panel used for managing several web components. With Cloud panel, you can manage MySQL, NGINX, PHP-FPM, Redis, Domain, FTP, User management, and many more from the web-based interface. It supports all major cloud providers including, AWS, Google, Digital Ocean, and specially designed for high performance with minimal resource usage. It also offers a CLI tool that helps you to perform several operations including, database backup, password reset, permissions, and more.In this post, we wil

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How to create a DynamoDB table on AWS using Terraform

How to create a DynamoDB table on AWS using Terraform

How to create a DynamoDB table on AWS using TerraformIn this article, we will see the steps to create a DynamoDB Table using Terraform. We will create a DynamoDB Table with the “PAY_PER_REQUEST” billing model. Before we proceed with this article, it is assumed that you are aware of AWS DynamoDB Service and know its basics, along with Terraform. Click here to learn more about DynamoDB arguments and properties available in Terraform.Pre-requisitesBasic understanding of Terraform.Terraform installed on your system.AWS Account (Create if you don’t have one).’access_key’ & ‘secret_key’ of an AWS IA

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How to store AWS user access key and secret key in Jenkins

How to store AWS user access key and secret key in Jenkins

How to store AWS user access key and secret key in JenkinsYou can store your AWS keys securely in Jenkins credentials. If you want to interact with AWS from your Jenkins server, you can store your AWS IAM user keys securely in Jenkins rather than openly using the keys in your Jenkins Pipeline. “CloudBees AWS Credentials” Jenkins plugin allows storing AWS IAM user credentials within the Jenkins Credentials API. We can then use these credentials in our pipeline and inject them in the pipeline with the “withAWS” step. To use “withAWS” step, we need to install the “AWS Steps Plugin” plugin.In this

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How to increase the disk space of an AWS EC2 Ubuntu instance

How to increase the disk space of an AWS EC2 Ubuntu instance

How to increase the disk space of an AWS EC2 Ubuntu instanceSometimes there could be a need to increase the disk space of your servers. It is always recommended to take a snapshot of the volume before you extend it or increase the disk size. Also, it is not advisable to decrease the disk size. Increasing the size of a volume does not increase the size of the partition, its file system must be extended. One needs to use a file system-specific command to resize the file system of the volume. In this article, we will increase the disk space of the boot volume (root partition) with the filesystem

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