Install ZFS on Ubuntu

Installing ZFS Filesystem on Ubuntu

We will be using the command line Terminal application for the installation of the ZFS filesystem. To launch the command line Terminal, use the Ctrl+Alt+T keyboard shortcut. Now to install the ZFS filesystem on Ubuntu, issue the following command in Terminal:

$ sudo apt install zfsutils-linux

When prompted for the password, provide the sudo password.

After running the above command, the system might ask for confirmation that if you want to continue the installation or not. Press y to continue; after that, the package will be installed on your system. To verify ZFS file system installation, issue the following command in Terminal:

$ which zfs

You will see the output similar to the following:

Creating the ZFS storage pool

After the installation is completed, we will now create a storage pool for our drives. Here are the steps to do so:

1. First, find out the names of the drives for the pool. Use the following command in Terminal to do so: Continue reading “Install ZFS on Ubuntu” »

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Install Xen Orchestra on Ubuntu 20

Prework

apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

Node.js

For this particular installation node 16 is needed to be installed. Lets install-

Add NodeSource PPA

This command will add PPA sources required to be able to install NodeJS 16 on your Ubuntu 20.04 installation:

curl -s https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | sudo bash

Install NodeJS 16

Now that the PPA source has been added, we can install NodeJS 16 on our Ubuntu 20.04 installation. Run the following command:

sudo apt install nodejs -y

Tip: The -y flag means we’re not prompted to confirm our choices. Continue reading “Install Xen Orchestra on Ubuntu 20” »

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Flushing IPTables rule and allow all traffic for Debian or Ubuntu

Flushing all iptables chain rules shell script

#!/bin/sh
echo "Stopping IPv4 firewall and allowing everyone..."
ipt="/sbin/iptables"
## Failsafe - die if /sbin/iptables not found
[ ! -x "$ipt" ] && { echo "$0: \"${ipt}\" command not found."; exit 1; }
$ipt -P INPUT ACCEPT
$ipt -P FORWARD ACCEPT
$ipt -P OUTPUT ACCEPT
$ipt -F
$ipt -X
$ipt -t nat -F
$ipt -t nat -X
$ipt -t mangle -F
$ipt -t mangle -X
$ipt -t raw -F
$ipt -t raw -X

Make sure you can execute the script using the chmod command: Continue reading “Flushing IPTables rule and allow all traffic for Debian or Ubuntu” »

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Install Collabora Online on Ubuntu 20 for Nextcloud

First, log in to your Ubuntu 20.04 server through SSH as the root user or any other user with sudo privileges:

ssh root@IP_Address -p Port_number

You will need to replace ‘IP_Address‘ and ‘Port_number‘ with your server’s respective IP address and SSH port number. Additionally, replace ‘root’ with the username of the system user with sudo privileges.

You can check whether you have the proper Debian version installed on your server with the following command:

$ lsb_release -a

You should get this output:

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal

Before starting, you have to make sure that all Ubuntu OS packages installed on the server are up to date. You can do this by running the following commands: Continue reading “Install Collabora Online on Ubuntu 20 for Nextcloud” »

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Install OnlyOffice 7 on Ubuntu 22

Install OnlyOffice Document Server on Ubuntu

OnlyOffice document server depends on PostgreSQL, Node.js, Redis Server, RabbitMQ server and Nginx. The following steps are tested on a Ubuntu 22.04 server but should also be applicable to Linux distributions in the Debian family.

Install PostgreSQL on Ubuntu

PostgreSQL is available from the default Ubuntu repository. The PostgreSQL team always strives to make performance improvements with every new version. Run the following commands to install the latest version of PostgreSQL from the postgresql.org repository.

echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/postgresql.asc] http://apt.postgresql.org/pub/repos/apt $(lsb_release -cs)-pgdg main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pgdg.list
sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings/
wget --quiet -O - https://www.postgresql.org/media/keys/ACCC4CF8.asc | sudo tee /etc/apt/keyrings/postgresql.asc
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y postgresql postgresql-contrib postgresql-15 postgresql-client-15
sudo -i -u postgres psql -c "CREATE DATABASE onlyoffice;"
sudo -i -u postgres psql -c "CREATE USER onlyoffice WITH password 'onlyoffice';"
sudo -i -u postgres psql -c "GRANT ALL privileges ON DATABASE onlyoffice TO onlyoffice;"

Note: Both the username and password must be onlyoffice. Continue reading “Install OnlyOffice 7 on Ubuntu 22” »

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Setup HAProxy Load Balancer for MariaDB Galera Cluster

If you check the above test scenario and try to create DBs on any of the nodes, you would see that the data would automatically sync between the nodes. Which means Availability is achieved. Now to achieve high availability we will use HaProxy as the loadbalancer.

Set up another VM for this and install HAProxy as follows.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install haproxy

Edit HA Proxy Config as follows.

sudo vim /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg

Add the following lines. Continue reading “Setup HAProxy Load Balancer for MariaDB Galera Cluster” »

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MariaDB Galera Cluster on Ubuntu 20

MariaDB Galera Cluster is a synchronous multi-master cluster for MariaDB with support for XtraDB/InnoDB storage engines. It has the following top features.

  • It provides active-active multi-master topology
  • You can read and write to any cluster node
  • It has an automatic node joining
  • Automatic membership control, failed nodes drop from the cluster
  • Has true parallel replication, on row level
  • Direct client connections
sudo apt update && sudo apt -y upgrade
sudo reboot

Setup Hostnames

Here’re the IP plans of my servers-

Continue reading “MariaDB Galera Cluster on Ubuntu 20” »

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Installer for jitsi-meet, jigasi and jibri

Found this lovely code base (that actually worked) on github, supported on a debian 10/11 or ubuntu 20+ versions-

The script (jitsi_setup.sh) can be used to install stable version of all 3 on a stand-alone server. This is simply a script version of quick-install document at https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/devops-guide/devops-guide-quickstart

It Installs below mentioned software:

nginx, prosody, jitsi-meet-prosody, jitsi-meet, jitsi-meet-web, jitsi-meet-web-config, jitsi-meet-turnserver, jicofo, jitsi-videobridge2

Below are optional, will be installed only if opted for:

jigasi (https://github.com/jitsi/jigasi)
jibri (https://github.com/jitsi/jibri)

Also has option for configuring:

  • secure domain (https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/devops-guide/secure-domain)
  • jigasi authentication (find it towards the end of secure domain link)
  • transcription(Google/Vosk) (https://github.com/jitsi/jigasi#configuring-sip-and-transcription)
  • Etherpad (https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite)

Continue reading “Installer for jitsi-meet, jigasi and jibri” »

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Build WAF with Reverse Proxy Load Balancer using Nginx

Getting Started

First, it is recommended to update and upgrade all your software packages to the latest version. You can update all of them by running the following command:

apt update -y
apt upgrade -y

Once all the packages are updated, install other required packages with the following command:

apt install g++ flex bison curl apache2-dev doxygen libyajl-dev ssdeep liblua5.2-dev libgeoip-dev libtool dh-autoreconf libcurl4-gnutls-dev libxml2 libpcre++-dev libxml2-dev git liblmdb-dev libpkgconf3 lmdb-doc pkgconf zlib1g-dev libssl-dev -y

Once you are done, you can proceed to the next step.

Install ModSecurity on Ubuntu 22.04

By default, the ModSecurity package is not included in the Ubuntu default repository. So you will need to compile it from the source.

First, download the latest version of ModSecurity with the following command:

wget https://github.com/SpiderLabs/ModSecurity/releases/download/v3.0.8/modsecurity-v3.0.8.tar.gz

Once the download is completed, extract the downloaded file with the following command:

tar -xvzf modsecurity-v3.0.8.tar.gz

Next, navigate to the extracted directory and configure it with the following command: Continue reading “Build WAF with Reverse Proxy Load Balancer using Nginx” »

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M3U Restream

There’s a wonderful piece of microservice node.js based restream utility, that let you re-stream from a source and also do the ffmped transcoding if you’d like. I just liked the piece!

My installed OS was Ubuntu 18.x and I used node version 12.x.

The problem

You have an IPTV provider that provides an (extended) M3U playlist file. You want to:

  • Add HTTPS encryption to the streams (and probably move the unencrypted reception offsite).
  • Transcode the streams to a lower bitrate, or convert to a uniform video or audio format.

The solution

Run this software, preferably on an offsite host. It only requires a Node installation (No NPM modules are required!). To add HTTPS support, front it with nginx (or similar). Continue reading “M3U Restream” »

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