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Hello, In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install Gitlab on Ubuntu 21.04
GitLab is a web-based DevOps lifecycle tool that provides a Git repository manager providing wiki, issue-tracking, and continuous integration and deployment pipeline features, using an open-source license, developed by GitLab Inc.
Hello, In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install Focalboard on Ubuntu 20.04
Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana. It’s a project management tool that helps define, organize, track and manage work across teams, using a familiar kanban board view
Update the System.
apt update
apt upgrade
Install Focalboard
Download the focalboard packages and then move it into /opt/focalboard directory.
wget https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/releases/download/v0.9.2/focalboard-server-linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar -xvzf focalboard-server-linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo mv focalboard /opt
Install NGINX
Now install NGINX using the following command. By default, the Focalboard server runs on port 8000.
sudo apt install nginx
Adjust firewall setting as per your need. You can open port 8000 in the firewall or you can disable the firewall in your server.
root@vps:~# apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg-agent software-properties-common
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
ca-certificates is already the newest version (20210119build1).
ca-certificates set to manually installed.
curl is already the newest version (7.74.0-1ubuntu2).
curl set to manually installed.
software-properties-common is already the newest version (0.99.10).
software-properties-common set to manually installed.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
eatmydata libeatmydata1 python3-certifi python3-importlib-metadata python3-jinja2 python3-json-pointer
python3-jsonpatch python3-jsonschema python3-markupsafe python3-more-itertools python3-pyrsistent
python3-requests python3-urllib3 python3-zipp
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
apt-transport-https gnupg-agent
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 6,940 B of archives.
After this operation, 212 kB of additional disk space will be used.
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root@vps:~# add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
Repository: 'deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu hirsute stable'
Description:
Archive for codename: hirsute components: stable
More info: https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu
Adding repository.
Press [ENTER] to continue or Ctrl-c to cancel.
Adding deb entry to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/archive_uri-https_download_docker_com_linux_ubuntu-hirsute.list
Adding disabled deb-src entry to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/archive_uri-https_download_docker_com_linux_ubuntu-hirsute.list
Hit:1 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute InRelease
Get:2 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-updates InRelease [109 kB]
Get:3 https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu hirsute InRelease [28.3 kB]
Hit:4 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-backports InRelease
Get:5 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute-security InRelease [101 kB]
Get:6 https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu hirsute/stable amd64 Packages [2,406 B]
Fetched 240 kB in 1s (364 kB/s)
Reading package lists... Done
Installing Docker CE.
apt install docker-ce
Output:
root@vps:~# apt install docker-ce
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
eatmydata libeatmydata1 python3-certifi python3-importlib-metadata python3-jinja2 python3-json-pointer
python3-jsonpatch python3-jsonschema python3-markupsafe python3-more-itertools python3-pyrsistent
python3-requests python3-urllib3 python3-zipp
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following additional packages will be installed:
containerd.io docker-ce-cli docker-ce-rootless-extras docker-scan-plugin libslirp0 pigz slirp4netns
Suggested packages:
aufs-tools cgroupfs-mount | cgroup-lite
The following NEW packages will be installed:
containerd.io docker-ce docker-ce-cli docker-ce-rootless-extras docker-scan-plugin libslirp0 pigz
slirp4netns
0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 108 MB of archives.
After this operation, 465 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
To check status.
systemctl status docker
Output:
root@vps:~# systemctl status docker
● docker.service - Docker Application Container Engine
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/docker.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Sat 2021-05-01 03:45:52 UTC; 1min 6s ago
TriggeredBy: ● docker.socket
Docs: https://docs.docker.com
Main PID: 632611 (dockerd)
Tasks: 8
Memory: 41.1M
CGroup: /system.slice/docker.service
└─632611 /usr/bin/dockerd -H fd:// --containerd=/run/containerd/containerd.sock
root@vps:~#
Installing Docker Compose on Ubuntu
Compose is a tool for defining and running multi-container Docker applications. With Compose, you use a Compose file to configure your application’s services. Then, using a single command, you create and start all the services from your configuration.
Use curl to download the Compose file into the /usr/local/bin directory.
root@vps:~# docker-compose ps
Name Command State Ports
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
root_db_1 docker-entrypoint.sh mysqld Up 3306/tcp, 33060/tcp
root_wordpress_1 docker-entrypoint.sh apach ... Up 0.0.0.0:8080->80/tcp
Hello, In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install Python 3.9 on Ubuntu 21.04
Ubuntu has had Python installed by default since at least version 8.04 and since 18.04 LTS the python included in the base system is Python 3.
Use python command to run commands for any older Python 2.x version, to run a command using the newer version, use python3.
You can check the python version by executing the following command.
python3 --version
If python is not installed by default, you can install it by using the following command.
apt install python3
Output:
root@vps:~# apt install python3
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
libpython3-stdlib python3-minimal python3.9 python3.9-minimal
Suggested packages:
python3-doc python3-tk python3-venv python3.9-venv python3.9-doc binutils
binfmt-support
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libpython3-stdlib python3 python3-minimal python3.9 python3.9-minimal
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,387 kB of archives.
After this operation, 6,460 kB of additional disk space will be used.
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