Deploy to a Dynamic Serverlist With Capistrano
At our company we use Capistrano for deploys. It reads Ruby instructions from a ./Capfile in the project's root directory, then deploys accordingly via SSH. It has support for rele...
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Prefix Streaming stdout & stderr in Go
If you are writing code in Go and are executing a lot of (remote) commands, you may want to indent all of their output, prefix the loglines with hostnames, or mark anything that wa...
Too Many Authentication Failures for Root
I recently had an annoying encounter with the error message: Too many authentication failures for root. I found out this can be caused because you've hoarded too many SSH keys :)...
Login Automatically With SSH Keys
With SSH you can securely login to any Linux server and execute commands remotely. You can even use SSH to transfer and synchronize files from one server to another. Automating the...
Synchronize Files With rsync
Synchronizing files from one server to another is quite awesome. You can use it for backups, for keeping web servers in sync, and much more. It's fast and it doesn't take up as muc...
Block Brute Force Attacks With Iptables
Since 2005 there has been an immense increase in brute force SSH attacks and though Linux is pretty secure by default, it does not stop evil programs from indefinitely trying to lo...
Make SSH Connections With PHP
Not everyone knows about PHP's capabilities of making SSH connections and executing remote commands, but it can be very useful. I've been using it a lot in PHP CLI applications tha...