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bpd29 Dec 2025

Introducing WireGuard: The Modern, Fast, and Simple VPN

A Lean and Mean Alternative to OpenVPN While OpenVPN is powerful, it can be complex to set up. The Ubuntu System Administration Guide also introduces WireGuar

bpd26 Dec 2025

Configuring Promtail to Collect Systemd Journal Logs

Capture Every Log on Your Ubuntu Server Modern Ubuntu systems use the `systemd` journal as the central place for all system and service logs. To capture this cr

bpd25 Dec 2025

Exposing Your Services: Kubernetes Ingress with Traefik and MetalLB

How to Get External Traffic into Your Cluster Once your application is running in the cluster, how do people access it from the outside? The Ubuntu System Admi

bpd24 Dec 2025

CI/CD Pipeline Step 1: Building and Pushing a Docker Image

Packaging Your Application for Deployment The Ubuntu System Administration Guide starts to build a basic CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment)

bpd24 Dec 2025

Hosting Multiple Websites on One Server with Apache Virtual Hosts

Maximize Your Server s Potential You don t need a separate server for every website you want to host. The Ubuntu System Administration Guide explains how to u

bpd19 Dec 2025

Personalize Your i3 Environment: Custom Backgrounds, Lock Screens, and More

Make Your i3 Desktop Your Own A fresh i3 installation is minimal, but the Ubuntu System Administration Guide shows how easy it is to customize. You can make y

bpd19 Dec 2025

The Power of Snapshots: Save and Restore Your VM State in KVM

Never Fear Breaking Your System Again One of the most powerful features of virtualization, highlighted in the Ubuntu System Administration Guide , is the abili

bpd17 Dec 2025

Centralized Logging with the Elastic Stack (Filebeat, Elasticsearch, Kibana)

Search and Analyze Logs from All Your Servers in One Place Metrics tell you what s happening, but logs tell you why. For managing logs from multiple servers, th

bpd15 Dec 2025

A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating OpenVPN Certificates with Easy-RSA

The Foundation of Your VPN s Security The Ubuntu System Administration Guide breaks down the process of generating the necessary certificates for your OpenVPN

bpd12 Dec 2025

Secure Your Connection: Setting Up a VPN on Ubuntu

Create a Secure Tunnel for Your Internet Traffic A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is an essential tool for protecting your online privacy and securely accessing

bpd12 Dec 2025

Adding Centralized Logging with Loki and Promtail to Your Container Stack

Complete Your Observability Stack with Logs Metrics tell you what s happening, but logs tell you why. To complete the monitoring solution, the Ubuntu System Ad

bpd11 Dec 2025

Adding Persistent Storage to Kubernetes with OpenEBS Hostpath

Giving Your Stateful Applications a Place to Store Data By default, data inside a Pod is ephemeral; if the Pod is deleted, its data is lost. For stateful applic