4.1 Linux administration
Every entry filed under Linux administration and its subtopics.
What kind of help
What do these mean?
- Beginner
- You are new to this topic.
- Intermediate
- You use it, and want to get better.
- Advanced
- You know it well and need the details.
- Guided project
- Build something small from start to finish, step by step.
- Explains an idea
- Plain words on how something works and why.
- Step by step
- Numbered steps to get one task done.
- Cheat sheet
- Commands and options in a table, to look up fast.
- Fixes an error
- An error message, what it means, and how to solve it.
4 entries match these filters
- 0349 Set up a WireGuard VPN with wg-easy in Docker Run a WireGuard server with a web admin page on one Linux host, open the UDP port, add a client from the… Intermediate · Guided project · Linux Article Networking & firewalls · VPN & tunnels 15 Oct 2026
- 0265 Turn a one-liner into a robust bash script: strict mode, options, logging, traps, locking and a schedule Grow a find-and-gzip one-liner step by step into a dependable bash script with strict mode, getopts, usage text, logging, error traps, dry-run,… Intermediate · Guided project · Linux, macOS Article Services & systemd · Shell scripting 15 Oct 2026
- 0249 Set up and harden a fresh Linux server in one afternoon Take a new Ubuntu, Debian or Rocky/Alma server from first login to a safer baseline: sudo admin, SSH keys only, firewall, automatic… Beginner · Guided project · Linux Article Networking & firewalls · Packages & updates · Users, sudo & hardening 15 Oct 2026
- 0255 Build a monitoring stack with Prometheus, node_exporter and Grafana on one Linux server Install Prometheus and node_exporter as systemd services, scrape and query host metrics with PromQL, then add Grafana with a dashboard and an… Intermediate · Guided project · Linux Article Prometheus & Grafana · Services & systemd 15 Oct 2026