Here at System Code Geeks we know how much you love books about system administration; we are geeks ourselves. After all, a geek that respects himself should always have his face in a book, he has to keep up with the latest technologies and developments. For this reason, we have decided to distribute 6 of our books for free. You ...

The usual advice you get when seeking a more resource conserving distro is to use a lighter spin-off such as Xubuntu, Lubuntu, or a Debian with Openbox, etc. However, not many people know that even a “heavy” distro such as Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with the default Unity Desktop could be made much lighter by uninstalling some stuff and removing others ...

Running a linux distro on android devices is a hot topic these days, and why not? After all, android is already based on linux kernel, but a pretty much locked-down and dumbed-down version of it. The OEM doesn’t give you root and in most cases, not even an open source bootloader or kernel. That way, its good for maybe the ...

Note: This article largely borrows from my previous writeup on installing K8s 1.7 on CentOS. Getting a local K8s cluster up and running is one of the first “baby steps” of toddling into the K8s ecosystem. While it would often be considered easier (and safer) to get K8s set up in a cluster of virtual machines (VMs), it does not ...

Please Note: If you are looking for a comprehensive, step-by-step guide on installing Kubernetes on CentOS, check out this guide (composed by one of my colleagues) instead. Caution: This blog was originally composed several months ago, when the K8s release cycle was at v1.7.0-alpha.3. As always, K8s has zoomed past us, hence most of the content would be downright obsolete ...

Bash is a command-line shell now available on all major operating systems, and it is the environment from which most developers can accomplish the majority of tasks for a system. Many of the commands that need to be executed to complete a task can be grouped together in a script to help avoid repetition when typing the commands. Furthermore, there’s ...

In this short guide, I’ll be reviewing the necessary information for how to manage services from the command line on Windows workstations and servers. It should also go without saying that “services” are an integral part of pretty much all computer systems. You should also be aware that “services” are sometimes referred to as daemons (pronounced “demons”), especially in various ...

In a previous article, I wrote about using pgbench to tune PostgreSQL. While I covered a very common tunable shared_buffers, there are many other tuning options that can be used to gain performance from PostgreSQL. Today’s article is going to cover one of those additional options. However, this tunable does not belong to PostgreSQL. Rather this tunable belongs to the ...

This is a Bash If-Then-Else Example. Sometimes you need to specify different courses of action to be taken in a shell script, depending on the success or failure of a command. The if construction allows you to specify such conditions. The following table shows an overview of the whole article: Table Of Contents 1. Introduction 2. Expressions used with if-then-else ...

In this article, we’ll review the necessary information for how to backup and restore information from a Microsoft Windows DHCP server database. Depending on how familiar you are with this procedure, you may or may not be aware that there’s more to it than just a simple “backup and restore the database”. Besides wanting a full copy of your database, sometimes ...