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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.

Update System.

apt update

apt upgrade -y

Install the Gitlab package dependencies.

apt-get install -y curl openssh-server ca-certificates

Add the GitLab Repository.

curl -sS https://packages.gitlab.com/install/repositories/gitlab/gitlab-ce/script.deb.sh | sudo bash

Install Gitlab

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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

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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install and use Docker Compose on Ubuntu 21.04

Installing Docker on Ubuntu

Check for system updates and install it.

apt update

apt upgrade

Install basic dependencies.

apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg-agent software-properties-common

Output:

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 

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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

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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install LAMP Stack with MariaDB on Ubuntu 21.04

Update the system

First, lets check for any pending system package updates,

apt update
apt upgrade

Install Apache

A command to install apache2 and with its utilities.

apt install -y apache2 apache2-utils

Next, check the Status of Apache.

systemctl status apache2

Output:

root@server:~# systemctl status apache2
● apache2.service - The Apache HTTP Server
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/apache2.service; enabled; vendor prese>
     Active: active 

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Hello,

In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install WordPress on Ubuntu 21.04

Prerequisites:

• Root access to your Ubuntu 21.04 server.
• LEMP Stack installed and running. Learn how to configure LEMP Stack

Creating database

Log into MySQL with the following command.

mysql

First, we’ll create a new database.

MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE DATABASE wordpress_db;

Next, create a new MySQL user account that we will use to operate on WordPress’s new database, with username “wordpress_user”.

MariaDB [(none)]> CREATE USER 

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In this week’s feature highlight, we look at How to Install LAMP Stack on Debian 11 bullseye

A LAMP stack is a group of open-source software that is typically installed together to enable a server to host dynamic websites and web apps. This term is actually an acronym which represents the Linux operating system, with the Apache web server. The site data is stored in a MariaDB database, and dynamic content is processed by PHP.

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