Author: Raphael Gab-Momoh

Raphael Gab-Momoh (Azure Cloud MVP) is a versatile DevOps practitioner, Cloud engineer and FinOps professional with years of experience. He has worked on solutions that met reliability, low latency, high availability, and security best practices using open-source tools such as Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins and others. Raphael is a Microsoft Certified Trainer and an active community member in the Azure Nigeria User Group.

Deploy a function app from Visual Studio to Azure Platform

01/06/202227/08/2024

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Deploy a function app from Visual Studio to Azure Platform

Azure Functions is a serverless cloud service that allows you to write less code, manage less infrastructure, and save money. Rather than worrying about deploying and maintaining servers, the cloud infrastructure provides all the current resources necessary to keep your applications running. You concentrate on the code that matters most to you, while Azure Functions…

AWS/Azure/OpenShift, Windows

How to install and configure JIRA on Linux

30/04/202215/08/2024

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JIRA is a proprietary and comprehensive software program developed by Atlassian that is primarily used for project management, problem tracking, and bug resolution. In this article, we will discuss how to install and configure JIRA on Linux. JIRA has an easy-to-use dashboard that allows you to keep track of issues. These concerns could include software…

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How to Install and Configure Apache Cassandra on Linux Server

30/04/202211/07/2023

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Apache Cassandra is an open-source NoSQL database engine with fault tolerance, linear scalability, and consistency across multiple nodes. Apache Cassandra’s distributed architecture allows it to manage massive amounts of data with dynamo-style replication. When replicas are kept on several nodes in a cluster, you’ll achieve high availability and zero points of failure. Cassandra has been…

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How to Install and Configure Elasticsearch on Linux

29/04/202219/07/2023

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Elasticsearch is a search engine that uses the Lucene library as its base. It is free and open-source. Therefore, it’s a full-text search engine with a distributed, multitenant capability, an HTTP web interface, and schema-free JSON documents. It is also a NoSQL database. Let’s look at how Elasticsearch differs from other NoSQL databases, as there…

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Elasticsearch: How to stop systemd service start operation from timing out

28/04/202228/09/2023

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Elasticsearch: How to stop systemd service start operation from timing out

The Elastic Search Platform is a data store, search engine, and analytics solution. This article was necessitated out of the frustrations systemd threw at the writer when he tried to work on Elasticsearch. So, hopefully, you will find the steps below useful if you are having a comparable situation as shown in the code box below. Also,…

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How to install Amazon RDS using Terraform

25/04/202221/03/2024

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How to install Amazon RDS using Terraform

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is one of Amazon Web Services (AWS) database offerings, and it often necessitates a lot of scrolling about and clicking in the AWS Management Console. While this procedure might take several minutes, if you’re a DevOps or just need to automate it, Terraform and AWS RDS are a perfect match. This article…

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Install and configure Prometheus for Monitoring on a Linux

03/04/202206/01/2024

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Prometheus is a lightweight open-source monitoring system with an effective alerting system. In this article, we shall discuss how to “Install and configure Prometheus for Monitoring on a Linux”. Prometheus gathers and saves metrics as time-series data, which means that metric data is kept alongside the timestamp at which it was captured, as well as…

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How to install Gradle on Ubuntu

28/03/202201/07/2023

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Let’s first explain Gradle before we discuss how to install it on Ubuntu. Gradle is a build tool that is well-known for its versatility in software development, especially with regard to automation. The process of making applications is automated using a build automation tool. Compiling, linking, and packaging the code are all part of the…

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How to install and configure Microsoft Teams on Ubuntu

28/03/202202/07/2023

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How to install and configure Microsoft Teams on Ubuntu

With Office 365, Microsoft has created its most collaborative platform yet. Microsoft Teams has been available for Linux users since 2019. This program is well-known around the world since it allows users to employ an endless number of features in a single forum. Furthermore, audio and video calls, chats, online meetings, file and data collaboration,…

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How to install PostgreSQL on Ubuntu

26/03/202203/07/2023

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PostgreSQL (sometimes known as Postgres) is a relational database management system that implements the SQL querying language. It complies with industry standards and has numerous advanced features such as dependable transactions and concurrency without read locks. The PostgreSQL project began in 1986 at the University of California’s Berkeley Computer Science Department. The project was previously known…

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How to Install Apache OpenOffice on Ubuntu

25/03/202203/11/2023

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In this guide, we shall discuss how to Install Apache OpenOffice on Ubuntu. OpenOffice is a free and open-source office suite that runs on a variety of platforms. In like manner, the Java and C++ programming languages are used to create this application software. Furthermore, this office suite comes in a whopping 121 different languages….

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How to install and configure Tripwire on Ubuntu

24/03/202222/04/2023

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How to install and configure Tripwire on Ubuntu

Tripwire is an application (IDS) that monitors your vital system files and reports in real-time to see if they’ve been tampered with or destroyed by a hacker (or by mistake). It enables the system administrator to quickly determine what has been compromised and remediate the situation. When it comes to managing internet servers, security is…

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How to install Node.js on Ubuntu

23/03/202205/01/2026

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In this guide, we shall discuss how to install Node.js on Ubuntu. Node.js is a server-side programming runtime based on JavaScript. It enables developers to design scalable backend functionality using JavaScript. JavaScript is a language that many people are already familiar with through web development in the browser. Node takes JavaScript out of the browser….

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