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...

Byobu is an easy-to-use wrapper around the tmux (or screen) terminal multiplexer. This means that it makes it easy for you to open multiple windows and run multiple commands within a single terminal connection. This t...

Ansible 2.0 has recently been released, and with it comes support for version 2 of the DigitalOcean API. This means that you can use Ansible to not only provision your web applications, but also to provision and manag...

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...

Ansible 2.0 has recently been released, and with it comes support for version 2 of the DigitalOcean API. This means that you can use Ansible to not only provision your web applications, but also to provision and manag...

This tutorial is the third in a series about deploying PHP applications using Ansible on Ubuntu 14.04. In this tutorial, we will build on what we learned in the previous tutorials by transforming our single-applicatio...

In this tutorial, we will cover setting up SSH keys to support code deployment/publishing tools, configuring the system firewall, provisioning and configuring the database (including the password), and setting up task...

This tutorial covers the process of provisioning a basic PHP application using Ansible. The goal at the end of this tutorial is to have your new web server serving a basic PHP application without a single SSH connecti...

Ansible is an automation tool that allows you to remotely configure systems, install software, and perform complex tasks across a large fleet of servers without needing to manually log into each. This tutorial goes ov...