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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 ...

Xubuntu is one of the most popular among the “lighter” distros as it hardly consumes 200MB when idle and even older machines are able to run with acceptable performance. Ubuntu-MATE which is based on MATE Desktop (a GNOME-2 fork) is also a similar competing distro though its debatable whether its as light as Xubuntu in terms of resource consumption. Making ...

The zsh shell, such as many others, supports aliases to minimize the amount of typing required. Beside simple command aliases, zsh comes with a multitude of extended alias features. Normal, or command aliases are very helpful for commands that you keep typing all over again. How often do you type git status, mvn clean install, or docker build yourself, manually? ...

On my last conference talk (it was about Ansible and Docker at DevOpsCon in Berlin), I was asked what is the best way to run Ansible on a Windows system. Ansible itself requires a Linux-based system as the control machine. When I have to develop on a Windows machine, I install a Linux-based virtual machine to run the Ansible’s playbooks ...

In my previous post, I showed why Cockroach DB might help you if you need a cloud native SQL database for your application. I explained how to install it in Kubernetes/OpenShift and how to validate that the data is replicated correctly. In this post, I am going to show you how to use Cockroach DB in a Spring Boot application. Notice that ...

CockroachDB 2.0 has just been released. For those who don’t know what it is, it can be summarized as a SQL database for the cloud era. One of the best things about CockroachDB is that it automatically scales, rebalances and repairs itself without sacrificing the SQL language. Moreover, Cockroach implements ACID transactions,  so your data is always in a known ...

Hello readers, in this tutorial, we will learn how to rename a file in the Linux operating system. For this tutorial, we will rename a file either: By using the mv command to rename the file Using rename command 1. Introduction Renaming files in Linux is not an advanced option, but it’s surely the interesting one. Developers know that Linux ...

This installation needs to have the Red Hat Middleware product streams installed (pre-configured container options) and all the extras like source to image and .Net Core containers.Since the release of the OpenShift Container Platform  it has been my desire to provide a simple, fully configured and easy to use installation. Since I last updated this project, OpenShift Container Platform 3.9 ...

Hello readers, in this tutorial, we will learn how to shut down a Linux system using the shutdown command. 1. Introduction The shutdown command in the Linux system powers down the system in a safe and secure manner. During the system power down process, all logged-in users are notified about the system shutdown and the login operations are blocked. This ...

My relationship with the terminal—especially Windows PowerShell—has been a bit of a roller coaster. I first discovered the terminal when I heard about Python and didn’t know anything about anything. Like the average person who uses computers for games and applications like Excel and PowerPoint, I went to the site, downloaded the installer, installed it, and clicked the icon. Imagine ...