The WHM/cPanel can be accessed without knowing the actual password if it satisfies a single condition i.e you must have shell access to the server. If you have the shell access through SSH Keypair or using VPS nodes on the server, you can simply access the WHM panel without knowing the actual root password of the server. The steps to create a session to access the WHM panel for the root or any reseller accounts without a password is detailed below. whmapi1 is the command which could be executed via Linux Shell so as to accomplish this. WHM API 1 accesses the WHM interface’s features. You can make use of this API to administrate cPanel and WHM reseller accounts, perform …
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SNI ( Server Name Identification) allows you to host multiple SSL certificates on a single IP address. Although, hosting several sites on a single virtual private server is possible with the use of virtual hosts, providing separate SSL certificates for each site traditionally required separate IP addresses. The process has now been simplified through the use of Server Name Indication (SNI), which sends a site visitor the certificate that matches the requested server name. Requirements to setup Multiple SSL To install Nginx: Make sure that SNI is enabled in the server Set up Process 1. Create the SSL certificate Directory For easy understanding, I will be working to create a server that hosts both example.com and example.org. The SSL certificate …
Ansible is a multipurpose automation tool used for workflow automation and configuration management. With the Infrastructure as Code approach, teams define and manage system configurations by specifying the packages, versions, and services that must run on a system. This method ensures consistent environments and simplifies infrastructure management.Automating workflows could involve anything from deploying software to setting up cloud infrastructure. Ansible is a Python application that uses SSH to run commands on many devices. Ansible is agentless, which makes learning how to use it much simpler. SSH access and Python installed on the essential machines are all that is required. Ansible maps a collection of hosts (from “inventory”) to clearly defined roles using declarative YML “playbooks.” What is Ansible Semaphore? Uses, …
AWS Organizations help you to centrally manage, grow and scale your AWS resources. Using AWS organization allows programmatically creating new AWS accounts, allocating resources, group accounts to organize your workflows, and simplifying billing by using a single payment method for all of your accounts. AWS Organization Benefits AWS Organization Use Cases 1. Creation of AWS accounts and categorize workloads using groups: Automate the creation of new AWS accounts, when you need to quickly launch a new work environment, auditing and touchless infrastructure deployments. For example, Easy to create separate groups to categorize development and production accounts, use AWS CloudFormation StackSets to provision services and permissions to each group. 2. Share Common resources across accounts: It makes it easy for you …
Docker Compose is an application definition and execution tool for multi-container docker applications. Using Docker Compose, you can connect all the isolated containers as a single service. The containers are still segregated, but they can interact with one another. A YAML file makes it possible to configure the services of your application. Then, with one command, you create and start all services from your configuration. With Docker Compose, you get the benefits of single host deployment, great security, and ease of set up & configuration which leads to really high productivity and efficiency. What is Compose file? A Compose file is a YAML file named: (Default location: ./docker-compose.yml) It defines: Each service definition configures how a container is built, connected, …
AWS Fargate is a computational engine for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) that allows you to execute containers without having to provide, configure & scale clusters of VMs.Now let’s take a little deeper and see how this AWS Fargate actually operates. From the image below, you can see as a first step you built a continuous image in this container.
Wazuh is a complete and open-source platform for threat detection, security monitoring, incident response and regulatory concurrence. This process describes how to construct and use each of the Wazuh components, which consist of the Wazuh server, the Wazuh agent, and Elastic Stack With Wazuh you will have: Security information management: Wazuh monitors system and application configuration settings to ensure they are compliant with your security policies, standards, and/or hardening guides. Security Events: We have all the security events that take place on the system as you can see how many events were executed on the system. Like if you see over there was system logon success like the user successfully logged into the system and then there was the log …
On the DevOps environment, AWS CodeStar, Azure DevOps and Jenkins have a wide variety of features to enhance the process of Continuous integration and Continued development. According to the business requirements, each tool helps to provide software delivery, monitoring and frequent updates in a timely manner. Azure DevOps Azure DevOps tool of Microsoft Azure provides version control, reporting, project management, auto-building features, testing and releasing. It has Kanban boards, an extension ecosystem and workflows. This developer tools set allows a developer to create a CI/CD pipeline from the source to the servers. Components of Azure DevOps are Pipelines, Azure Boards, Azure Artifacts, Azure Repos and Azure Test Plans. Pipelines: Build, test and deploy applications in any language like JavaScript or …
Migration of data is an inevitable process in website hosting. In conventional methods, we will do the migrations manually across the servers, which is hectic in a way. In AWS we have a new feature called AWS DataSync which will transfer the data in S3 buckets between two AWS instances, regions, accounts, etc. With DataSync we can do a one-time data transfer and also can schedule the migration whenever we needed. We will see some examples of data transfer below, thus we can have a proper understanding of the AWS DataSync. Transferring data within the same Amazon S3 account Select the DataSync page in the AWS console and create a task using the ‘Task’ option in the left menu bar. …
AWS Cloud infrastructure management can be defined as setup, optimization of components, monitoring and configurations under the cloud infrastructure. It works through a web-based interface. Mainly cloud infrastructure management provides an enterprise with some level of consolidated IT resources and scalability. The users can share the exact infrastructure without compromising the data of each other. What is an AWS System Manager(SSM)? AWS System Manager which is also known as SSM is an operational section of the AWS platform. It is a service used to view and control the infrastructure in AWS. The System Manager console helps to get the details from various AWS services and can automate the operational tasks all across the AWS resources and also maintain the security …