Laravel is an open source PHP framework that provides a set of tools and resources to build modern PHP applications. In this guide, you'll install and configure a new Laravel application on an Ubuntu 18.04 server, usi...

UFW, or Uncomplicated Firewall, is an interface to iptables that is geared towards simplifying the process of configuring a firewall on Linux servers. In this guide, you'll learn how to set up a firewall with UFW on U...

Laravel's Seeders are special classes that live in the database/seeders directory in a Laravel project that allow you to programmatically insert a collection of default or sample records in the database. In this guide...

A “LAMP” stack is a group of open-source software that is typically installed together to enable a server to host dynamic websites and web apps. This term is actually an acronym which represents the Linux operating sy...

In the second part of our Practical Introduction to Laravel Eloquent Series, you’ll learn how to insert records in the database using Eloquent models. One of the biggest advantages of using an ORM system is the abilit...

In this tutorial, learn how to set up a one-to-many relationship in Laravel Eloquent. You’ll modify the initial database structure from the Landing Laravel demo application to include a second table, which you will us...

A "LAMP" stack is a group of open source software that is typically installed together to enable a server to host dynamic websites and web apps. This stack typically consists of the Linux operating system, the Apache ...

UFW (uncomplicated firewall) is a firewall configuration tool that runs on top of iptables, included by default within Ubuntu distributions. It provides a streamlined interface for configuring common firewall use case...

This guide will walk you through a few procedures that you should take early on in order to create a solid foundation for your new Ubuntu 18.04 server, before moving on to installing and configuring any software or se...

Laravel Sail is a Docker development environment that is included by default within newer Laravel versions. In this guide, you’ll bootstrap a new Laravel application with Laravel Sail and create a styled “about me” la...

Visual Studio Code, also known as VS Code, is a free source code editor software or IDE (integrated development environment) available for all major operating systems. With a large collection of extensions for many pr...

While handling increased system load is a common concern, decreasing downtime and eliminating single points of failure are just as important. High availability is a quality of infrastructure design at scale that addre...

In a nutshell, handlers are special tasks that only get executed when triggered via the notify directive. Handlers are executed at the end of the play, once all tasks are finished. In Ansible, handlers are typically u...

Templates allow you to create new files on the nodes using predefined models based on the Jinja2 templating system. Ansible templates are typically saved as .tpl files and support the use of variables, loops, and cond...

If you were following along with all parts of this series, at this point you should be familiar with installing system packages, applying templates, and using handlers in Ansible playbooks. In this guide, you'll creat...

Automating the installation of required system packages is a common operational task in Ansible playbooks, since a typical application stack requires software from different sources. In this guide, learn more about ho...

It is important to understand how privilege escalation works in Ansible, so that you're able to execute your tasks with appropriate permissions. By default, tasks will run as the connecting user - this might be either...

When automating server setup, sometimes you'll need to repeat the execution of the same task using different values. For instance, you may need to change permissions of multiple files, or create multiple users. To avo...

In Ansible, you can define conditions that will be evaluated before a task is executed. When a condition is not met, the task is then skipped. This is done with the "when" keyword, which accepts expressions that are t...