TEKSpace

One-stop shop: Flow track offers businesses a central system to manage all their work

Flow Track is all in one software as a service that gives small business owners the ability to manage all their productivity tools from one place. Instead of juggling between multiple tools. Flow Track allows business owners and their employees to work from one single system. Here are all the

How to reset Ghost blog admin user password

In case you forgot your password and need to reset the password from the backend. You can do so by replacing the hash password with a new one. Follow the below guide on how to replace the password for the admin user or any user that is unable to use

How to renew Ghost blog Let's Encrypt Certificate

Connect to your ghost server via SSH and login as a ghost user. Then following these commands: 1. Install the latest ghost-cli via npm sudo npm i -g ghost-cli@latest 2. Renew certificate by executing the below command ghost setup ssl-renew 3. Switch to root user sudo su 4. Upgrade

How to Change iCloud Photos Default Folder Location

Suppose you want to change the path of default iCloud location in Windows 10 to point to different partition where you have more storage space. Below guide will provide step by step instructions on how to change the path of default path. Make sure your iCloud backup is turned off

Ubuntu

Mount SMB Shares in Ubuntu Linux

Mounting smb shares with no credentials Install require packate: sudo apt install cifs-utils Create folder to mount sudo mkdir /media/plex Mount smb share with non-credential access: sudo mount -t cifs -o rw,vers=3.0,guest //192.168.1.5/share /media/plex Remount on system reboot sudo vi

K3S

Deploying Kubernetes Dashboard in K3S Cluster

Get Latest Kubernetes Dashboard and deploy GITHUB_URL=https://github.com/kubernetes/dashboard/releases VERSION_KUBE_DASHBOARD=$(curl -w '%{url_effective}' -I -L -s -S ${GITHUB_URL}/latest -o /dev/null | sed -e 's|.*/||') sudo k3s kubectl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/dashboard/${VERSION_KUBE_

Kubernetes

Setup Kubernetes Cluster using K3S, MetalLB, LetsEncrypt on Bare Metal

Setup K3S Cluster By default Rancher K3S comes with Traefik 1.7. We will setup K3S without Traefik ingress in this tutorial. Execute below command on master node 1. curl -sfL https://get.k3s.io | sh -s - server --datastore-endpoint="mysql://user:pass@tcp(ip_address:3306)/databasename"

Kubernetes On-Prem Load Balancing implementation using MetalLB

In this tutorial I will go over how to install and setuo MetalLB for on-prem implementation. Pre-req Kubernetes cluster either K8S or K3S. Installing MetalLB kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/metallb/metallb/v0.9.4/manifests/namespace.yaml kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/metallb/metallb/v0.

raspberry pi

Raspberry Pi 4 K3S cluster setup

In this tutorial, I will show you how to setup lightweigth kubernetes cluster using rancher k3s. My current Raspberry PI 4 configuration: Hostname RAM CPU Disk IP Address k3s-master-1 8GB 4 64GB 192.168.1.10 k3s-worker-node-1 8GB 4 64GB 192.168.1.11 k3s-worker-node-2 8GB 4 64GB 192.168.

Webmin

Install Webmin on Ubuntu 20.04

NOTE: IP address of your host running webmin must be set to static IP address. Follow guide here on how to set static IP address. Update Ubuntu before installing webmin packages sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y Install dependecies: sudo apt install software-properties-common apt-transport-https Setup webmin

Rancher

Rancher Kubernetes Single Node Setup

Pre-req VMrequirements One Ubuntu 20.04 VM node where RKE Cluster will be running. One Ubuntu 20.04 host node where RKE CLI will be configured to use to setup cluster. Disable swap and firewall sudo ufw disable sudo swapoff -a; sudo sed -i '/swap/d' /etc/fstab Update

Linux

How to set Static IP Address on Ubuntu 20.04

Login to Ubuntu node as a sudo user. Backup exiting files sudo cp /etc/netplan/00-installer-config.yaml /etc/netplan/00-installer-config.yaml.bak Edit install config file Open file sudo /etc/netplan/00-installer-config.yaml Set this dhcp4: true to dhcp4: no Right below dhcp4: no enter below values and save and

MySql

Reset MySql 8.0 root password on Windows

If you forgot your root password and need to reset it for your mysql 8 server. Follow below guide. Stop MySQL80 service on windows Open PowerShell as Administrator and execute below command get-service -Name mysql* | Stop-Service This will stop MySQL80 service. If you wish to stop service from services console,

CentOS

How to encrypt and decrypt files using openssl

In this tutorial we will go over how to encrypt a text file that we can store in public storage without any security concerns. Suppose you are running an application in cloud platform and you are running daily backup of sql files and want to store it securely in block

Certificates

How to generate self-signed certificate in Linux

In this tutorial, I will be using centos 7 to generate self-signed certificate. You can use any linux operating system as long as it is openssl install. To install openssl follow below guide: Openssl installation CentOS, Redhat, Fedora: sudo yum install openssl Ubuntu, Debian sudo apt install openssl Generating certificate

MySql

How to create new MySQL user and assign database

to create new user in MySQL follow below steps: Create new MySQL User CREATE USER 'demo'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'dem0123'; Once the user is created, you will need to set permissions to grant access to database. Here I will first create a testdb to create new database to set permissions.

MySql

How to install MySQL 8 on CentOS 8

Download rpm package and configure yum repository wget https://dev.mysql.com/get/mysql80-community-release-el8-1.noarch.rpm sudo yum localinstall mysql80-community-release-el8-1.noarch.rpm sudo yum repolist enabled | grep "mysql.*-community.*" output: mysql-connectors-community MySQL Connectors Community mysql-tools-community MySQL Tools Community mysql80-community MySQL 8.0 Community Server sudo yum repolist all

MySql

Managing MySQL database using PHPMyAdmin in Kubernetes

NOTE: Before you proceed you must know how to connect to kubernetes cluster, have nginx ingress controller setup with certificate manager, and have mysql database pod deployed. Follow this guide if you do not have mysql deployed. Follow this guide to setup nginx ingress and cert manager. Phpmyadmin is a

base64

Linux Base64 encoding and decoding string value

From linux commandline interface execute below commands to encode or decode string values. Encoding echo -n 'tekspace' | base64 Output: dGVrc3BhY2U= Decoding echo -n dGVrc3BhY2U= | base64 -d Output: tekspace

PowerShell convert string to base64 value

To convert string value to base64 follow below steps in PowerShell commandline window: Encoding to base64 string: $encoded = [Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes("test")) write-output $encoded Output: dGVzdA== Decoding base64 string: $decoded = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetString([System.Convert]::FromBase64String($encoded)) write-output $decoded Output: test

k8s

How to Deploy MySql database on Digital Ocean Managed Kubernetes Cluster

NOTE: This tutorial assumes you know how to connect to Kubernetes cluster. Create secrets to securely store MySQL credentials Guide on how to create base 64 encoded values: Windows 10 guide Linux guide Create new file called: mysql-secret.yaml and paste below value. NOTE: You must first capture value in

Windows Containers

Setup Windows Node with Kubernetes 1.14

Kubernetes 1.14 now provides out of the box support for Windows worker nodes to run windows containers with in Kubernetes cluster. This feature was in preview for long time and now it is production ready. This is a wonderful opportunity for most cloud giant companies to start applying new

Kubernetes

Setup Kubernetes 1.14 Cluster on CentOS 7.6

In this tutorial I will demonstrate how to setup Kubernetes 1.14 Cluster to take advantage of new features that many organizations and community were waiting for. As specially windows containers. Kubernetes now offers windows containers out of the box and allows you to add windows node to Kubernetes cluster.

Ghost blog

Ghost blog content not secure warning

Are you receiving an error in your browser console and a pop-up in chrome browser that content is loaded over http and it needs to be https? If yes, then you came to the right place. Mixed Content: The page at 'https://example.com/ghost/#/site' was loaded over HTTPS,

Docker

Manage Docker Images locally and in remote Container Registry

Managing Docker images is very important. Just as similar to managing application source code in a version controlled repository such as GIT. Docker also provides the similar capabilities. Docker images can be managed locally on your development machine and also on remote container registry also known as Docker hub. In