Working with Amazon AWS EC2: Ephemeral disks

Ever wondered how useful instance storage (ephemeral disk) could be?

As shown in the previously article, we start to see things differently while working with Cloud Computing, therefore apart from the EBS disks we discussed…

NCDU — Different way to obtain Disk Usage in Linux

Have you ever wondered a different way of getting Disk usage stats? Are you tired of using commands like “df -h”, “du -hs”, combining with several other ones in pipe?

SFTP Jail (chroot) with Active Directory authentication

Another How-To secure SFTP using chroot with AD authentication restricting by Group.

Connecting your Linux to a Cisco AnyConnect (SSL) — Part 1

Hi there !

Have you ever wondered an easier way to connect to a Cisco SSL VPN using Linux?

I have been given such task to replace an old OpenVPN to a Cisco one, then I…

Troubleshooting SSH connectivity issues

Have you ever got stuck troubleshooting why your SSH connection is dropping, sometimes freezes every time you run some commands like top? Check out this quick…

MySQL PAM and Active Directory authentication

How-To configure your MySQL to use PAM and/or Active…

Virtual machine images for Virtualbox and VMware

Looking for Virtual machine images for Virtualbox and/or VMware? That quick tip is for you then.

Sometimes you need to build a dev environment or even a quick one for learning purposes. However, you are always in a…

Working with Amazon AWS EC2: Resizing disks

Have you ever thought how easy would be to resize a disk in a Cloud environment?

Now, imagine with Amazon AWS… much easier though :)