This article will teach you how to use Git when you want to deploy your application. While there are many ways to use Git to deploy our application, we'll focus on the one that is most straightforward.

In this tutorial, we will go over the installation of the Elastic Stack on an Ubuntu 18.04 server. You will learn how to install all the components of the Elastic Stack (including Filebeat, a Beat used for forwarding ...

Configuration management systems are designed to make controlling large numbers of servers easy for administrators and operations teams. They allow you to control many different systems in an automated way from one c...

Configuration management systems are designed to make controlling large numbers of servers easy for administrators and operations teams. While there are many popular configuration management systems available for Linu...

This tutorial will walk you through the process of creating an automated server provisioning using Ansible, a configuration management tool that provides a complete automation framework and orchestration capabilities....

Docker is an application that simplifies the process of managing application processes in containers. This guide explains how to use Ansible to automate the steps contained in our guide on How To Install and Use Docke...

Puppet, from Puppet Labs, is a configuration management tool helps system administrators automate the provisioning, configuration, and management of a server infrastructure. Planning ahead and using config management ...

As a broader subject, configuration management (CM) refers to the process of systematically handling changes to a system in a way that allows the system to maintain integrity over time. In this tutorial, we will discu...

Once your application is up and running in a cloud server environment, you may be wondering how you can improve your server environment to make the leap from "it works" to a full-fledged production environment. This a...

After setting up Puppet in an agent/master configuration, you may need some help writing Puppet manifests and modules. In order to use Puppet effectively, you must understand how manifests and modules are constructed....

Immutable infrastructure is an infrastructure paradigm in which servers are never modified after they're deployed. This article explains the conceptual and practical differences between mutable and immutable infrastru...

Configuration management systems are designed to streamline the process of controlling large numbers of servers, for administrators and operations teams. They allow you to control many different systems in an automate...

Ansible is a flexible configuration management system that can be used to manage the configuration of remote hosts easily and automatically. In this guide, we will discuss the basics of how to use playbooks, which ar...

Terraform is a tool for building and managing infrastructure in an organized way. In this tutorial, you'll install and use Terraform to create an infrastructure on DigitalOcean that consists of two Nginx servers that ...

Ansible and Terraform are not competing solutions, as they resolve different phases of infrastructure and software deployment. In this tutorial, you'll deploy Droplets using Terraform, and then immediately after their...

Ansible is a powerful configuration management system used to set up and manage infrastructure and applications in varied environments. While Ansible provides easy-to-read syntax, flexible workflows, and powerful tool...

Ansible Vault is a feature that allows users to encrypt values and data structures within Ansible projects. This provides the ability to secure sensitive data that may be necessary to successfully run Ansible plays, b...

This tutorial will explore how to create roles with templates and static files. Once you are familiar with the fundamentals of building roles, we'll use Ansible Galaxy (https://galaxy.ansible.com/) to incorporate comm...

This tutorial uses Docker Compose to demonstrate the automation of continuous integration workflows. We will create a Dockerized Python application and a Bash test script. Then, the test script will be Dockerized in i...

DigitalOcean's web based control panel provides a convenient, point-and-click interface for managing Droplets. There are many times, however, when a command-line tool may be a preferable alternative. doctl, the offic...