Do you operate servers that run on physical hardware on-premise, in a colocation facility, or a DIY server closet? Do you have a need or interest to bring your systems to the cloud? This presentation walks through the migration of a CentOS 5.X Physical Server to a cloud-hosted Ubuntu 16.04 Virtual Machine. The server in…
Online businesses which sell goods direct to consumers are often powered by online payment services. The server code which communicates with these payment services typically runs on hosted machines in datacenters which can be costly to service and maintain. In many cases, operators of these types of businesses have little concern for the underlying technology, they simply require a…
Running WordPress requires an ability to run PHP and MySQL database for storing content and Azure Web Apps offer the ability to deploy WordPress instances in just a few clicks. Out the box, Azure Web Apps support PHP up to the latest version. However, your options for fulfilling WP’s dependency on MySQL in Azure Web Apps have consisted of using a third party…
I recently had the opportunity to participate in the 2016 China – US Young Maker Competition as part of a prize sponsorship from the The Ministry of Education of People’s Republic of China, Chinese ServiceCenter for Scholarly Exchange, Tsinghua University, Beijing Gehua Cultural Development Group, Intel Corporation, and Hackster.io. The prize consisted of a week long…
The Rio 2016 Olympics are currently underway and millions around the world are tuning into the various events taking place. Like many, I want to watch the action in the comfort of my living room with my family and friends. Unfortunately, I was stuck with pretty much two options for watching the event. I could…
Microsoft Azure allows for deploying a variety of stock Linux Images from the virtual machine gallery. There is a wide selection to choose from but you will notice that the OS disk that is created when using these templates may not be sufficient for your needs. Here is how you can resize the OS Disk for…
In this post, we demonstrate development and deployment of a Jekyll blog instance from Bash on Ubuntu on Windows within Visual Studio Code with Deployment to Azure . [Demo Notes] Windows Prerequisites: Install VS Code Install Xming Bash on Ubuntu on Windows Prerequisites: Install Jekyll as per Install the azure xplat-cli enable DBUS: sudo sed -i ‘s$<listen>.*</listen>$<listen>tcp:host=localhost,port=0</listen>$’ /etc/dbus-1/session.conf
In my previous posts we walked through installing and configuring Bash on Ubuntu on Windows as an integrated terminal in Visual Studio Code. Next, we looked at setting up an X11 server using XMING to display X11 graphical applications from BoUoW. Today we are going to build on those concepts to see if we can run one of…
X11 Apps work on the recently announced Bash on Ubuntu on Windows! Ingredients: Host OS running latest Windows Insider Preview with Windows Subsystem for Linux enabled with Bash on Ubuntu on Windows Xming Instructions: Open Bash on Ubuntu on Windows Ensure Xming is running In Bash prompt, enter “export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0” to connect to Xming host over TCP/IP and enable UI apps…
