How to Automatically Start a Virtual Machine (VM) with Windows startup

Command used in the video (Replace VMX file path with the one from the desired VM “C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation\vmrun.exe” start “C:\Users\elastic\Documents\Virtual Machines\Docker\Docker.vmx” For service VMs that don’t need to appear on the screen (Run in the background) just add “nogui” as follows: “C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Workstation\vmrun.exe” start “C:\Users\elastic\Documents\Virtual Machines\Docker\Docker.vmx” nogui Alternative method to placing […]

Follow these instructions to install GNS3 Network Emulation Software in Windows 10 / 11 Open the official GNS3 website https://www.gns3.com and click Free Download, you may need to signup/signin: 2. Download GNS3 application client, and GNS3, both components must be installed: GNS3 VM is available for many hypervisors depending on your preference: 3. Install GNS3 […]

One of the easiest ways to start your first container orchestration cluster with Kubernetes is to use Minikube. minikube is local Kubernetes, focusing on making it easy to learn and develop for Kubernetes. All you need is Docker (or similarly compatible) container or a Virtual Machine environment We will start the tutorial on a fresh […]

!– wp:paragraph –> The following commands are required for Docker post-installation to allow the execution of Docker commands without using sudo: sudo groupadd docker sudo usermod -aG docker $USER newgrp docker sudo reboot After the host reboots, you should be able to run commands such as docker ps or docker run without sudo.

AWS EC2 is a great service to run virtual machines in the cloud. EC2 offers hundreds of images of operating systems and pre-packaged applications to choose from when launching an instance (aka virtual machine). To start using Docker Engine and Docker Compose to create containers and stacks on AWS EC2, we recommend building on Ubuntu […]

Video Sections: 00:00 Intro01:19 Overview of native Docker GUI on Windows01:58 Install Portainer CE on Docker host03:44 Portainer GUI initial setup and overview08:28 Portainer App Templates (HTTPD, NGINX)14:14 Managing multiple or remote docker hosts using Portainer20:13 Portainer volume browser21:09 Docker Engine installed by Snap package manager29:24 Deploy Docker Compose stacks using Portainer

Question came from a user on the Youtube community on how to force Google Safe Search for their network. SafeSearch is a feature in Google Search and Google Images that acts as an automated filter of pornography and potentially offensive and inappropriate content. On November 11, 2009, Google introduced the ability for users with Google […]

Original Script for Docker only on Windows / Linux for DNS-level protection New Script for Docker & Cloudflare for DNS Over HTTPS (DOH) Video Sections00:00 Intro00:15 Issues with DNS00:57 Example DNS setup with No encryption03:44 Example DNS setup with Cloudflare encryption Docker Compose: Infrastructure as Code IaC utility for deploying Docker servicesCloudflared: DNS proxy to […]

Backing up your website database before major changes or updates is important step, and there are many different ways to backup a database using GUI or CLI. In this article you will learn how to use a utility called mysqldump to backup a MySQL or MariaDB database. The same instructions work for both database engines. […]

Backing up your website periodically is a very important procedure to ensure stability and ability to roll back your site to a previous snapshot in case something went wrong. Backing up your website root directory (In Apache setups its called htdocs) into a zip file will make it easy to do so. To Backup you […]