Developers Technical Tutorials

Bash Script Backup MySQL Databases

By Mike Goh June 10, 2021Developers Technical TutorialsBackup, Command LineNo Comments

Introduction Back in the good old days, when Git was not invented, database administrators will use a bash script to backup their MySQL databases periodically. This method is not true anymore because GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket provide free plans and…

Email Verification using Laravel Fortify

By Mike Goh May 18, 2021Developers Technical TutorialsCoding, Web4 Comments

Introduction It was my first attempt to use Laravel email verification to build an online web application and I shortlisted Fortify for account authentication as it provides register new and login pages out of the box. These two pages were…

Set Up Prometheus for Systems Monitoring, Alertmanager to Send Alerts and Node Exporter as Machine Metrics Collector

By Mike Goh October 30, 2020Developers Technical TutorialsDevOps, NetworkNo Comments

Introduction Previously, we discovered how to deploy Terraform as infrastructure provisioning tool. Today we will learn about infrastructure monitoring. While old-time favorites Zabbix and Nagios are still under active development, Prometheus integrated with Grafana has become a common monitoring stack…

Build and Run Test from Jenkins with Docker

By Mike Goh September 1, 2020Developers Technical TutorialsDevOps, DockerNo Comments

Introduction My DevOps learning roadmap says "learn some CI/CD tool" and so I picked up Jenkins - an open source continuous integration and continuous delivery automation server. Although I am already using GitLab to keep track and backup my source…

Using Docker Swarm Container Orchestration to Manage Multiple Containers

By Mike Goh July 25, 2020Developers Technical TutorialsDevOps, DockerNo Comments

Introduction Previously, I had mastered the basics of Ansible as infrastructure configuration management tool as part of my self-learning DevOps journey. Today, I had to understand and try out what is a container orchestration tool. I started with Kubernetes as…

Using Ansible to Automate Deployment for Apps and IT Infrastructure

By Mike Goh July 3, 2020Developers Technical TutorialsDevOps, ServersNo Comments

Introduction Ansible is one of the few configuration management tools in the DevOps environment. It is an infrastructure automation platform used to deploy our applications and systems rapidly to enable continuous integration and continuous deployment. While there are others like…

Bash Script Backup MySQL Databases

Email Verification using Laravel Fortify

Set Up Prometheus for Systems Monitoring, Alertmanager to Send Alerts and Node Exporter as Machine Metrics Collector

Build and Run Test from Jenkins with Docker

Using Docker Swarm Container Orchestration to Manage Multiple Containers

Using Ansible to Automate Deployment for Apps and IT Infrastructure

Asus Router Setup – Wifi Settings

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Create Helpdesk Ticketing System with Google Apps Script

Host Multiple Websites with jwilder nginx-proxy and letsencrypt-companion