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Essential SSH commands

Securely managing remote servers

Checking disk health in Linux

Identify bad drives before they fail

Setting up the Kubernetes Dashboard

Deploying a visual overview of your k8s cluster

Upgrading a PostgreSQL Database with Docker

Safely switching between major releases

What are NewSQL Databases?

A primer on the drop-in replacements for traditional RDBMS systems

Monitoring a docker server with Prometheus and Grafana

Making the monitoring solution part of the container stack

Why bash shell aliases deserve your attention

A seriously underrated feature of the bash shell

Managing packages with apt

How to find, install, update and remove packages - and everything inbetween

Enabling automatic background updates with unattended-upgrades

Keep your debian-based servers up to date automatically