The Internet can be a little unfair. It’s way too easy for ISPs, telecoms, politicians, and corporations to block access to the sites and information...

**The problem** Suppose you’re an operator who, in a massively scaled-out and highly automated deployment, is responsible for keeping a few hundred o...

It’s been a really long time since I’ve written an article, so I really feel like I need to make this a good one. Sometimes I am just awestruck with ...

**Command Rundown** We start by creating an SSH key into my Digital Ocean account. To create this SSH key, we’d locally run: cd ~/.ssh ssh-keygen -t...

Introduction* Elasticsearch [1] is a platform for distributed search and analysis of data in real time. Its popularity is due to its ease of use, po...

In the second article [1] of the Ansible and WordPress series, we discussed the basic Ansible project structure and setting up WP-CLI and PHP. Today...

Since writing the article on why you should use Ansible for managing your WordPress deploys on VPS servers [1] , I’ve added some basic configuration...

In this series of articles, we’ll be automating server ( VPS ) configuration with the help of Ansible [1] , an open source IT automation platform. I...

**a radically simple IT automation system** Administrator It handles configuration-management, application deployment, cloud provisioning, ad...