When someone just wants to play around Kubernetes on its local environment without accessing to Cloud provider resources, one can set Kubernetes up on local environment with minikube with single node mode.This post will provide a simple guideline on how to set up KUbernetes with minikube and docker on Ubuntu.Before all the steps can be started, you may need to first set up kubectl which is a command line tool to operate on Kubernetes resources.Post that, can ensure that docker is installed on Ubuntu, in case it's not installed, can follow below steps.Update local software repository databasesu...

GitHub, GitLab and BitBucket are the three most famous code hosting platform in the world. They have different features which allow teams or individuals to share code with others remotely. In case you want to build your own code hosting server so that you can host and share the code by yourself, you can install and set up your own server. In this post, we will walk you through a guide on installing and setting up GitLab server on Linux environment.gitlab is a web based code hosting tool which is open sourced to everyone. Below we start the installation and setup process. The Linux system we ar...

Apache Superset (incubating) is a modern, enterprise-ready business intelligence web application. Compared with business-focused BI tool like Tableau, superset is more technology-navy. It supports more types of visualization and able to work in distributed manner to boost the query performance. Most importantly, it is free of charge!An example dashboard:Let’s go and set it up.Create a virtualenvAssume Anaconda is installed for python management.# create a virtualenv with python 3.6conda create -n superset python=3.6Install in virtualenventer the virtual environment and follow the of...

JSON now becomes a very popular data format because of its simplicity and light-weight. Nowadays many RESTful APIs will offer a choice of exchanging JSON data between the server and client. Sometimes the data may not be formatted and it cannot be easily read by human beings. It's frequently desired that the unformatted JSON data should be formatted before read.Today we will show a few ways to format JSON data on Ubuntu. Assume we have a json file test.json with below content.{ "title": "Test", "description": "Sample description" }The normal cat command will output below content.postman@postman...

By default, VirtualBox only allows to install 32 bit OS on it. But sometimes, 64 bit OS is wanted for specific uses such as running platform specific tests. To allow installing 64 bit OS on VirtualBox. Below information is needed.Here is the official documentation about 64 bit OS:VirtualBox supports 64-bit guest operating systems, even on 32-bit host operating systems, provided that the following conditions are met:You need a 64-bit processor with hardware virtualization support (see the section called “Hardware vs. software virtualization”).You must enable hardware virtualization ...

Have you ever tried to have two OSs installed on your PC? Do you want to try out the new Ubuntu system? If you do want to use Ubuntu when at the same time you are using Windows, you may want to install your Ubuntu in an VirtualBox. In this post, we will show you how to install Ubuntu in VirtualBox on Windows.Pre-requisitesVirtualBox -- You can download it from Oracle.Ubuntu -- You can download it from here. Please note it should be an ISO fileThe Ubuntu used in this post is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.InstallationStep 1. Install the VirtualBox, it is like any other application installation on WindowsStep...

The biggest movement of escaping from MySQL in this century starts, openSUSE,Fedora and Arch have started to use MariaDB instead of MySQL as their default database. Many people also dislike the attitude of Oracle on MySQL, so it's reasonable to migrate from MySQL to MariaDB. The whole process is not complicated. Here we share the steps to migrate from MySQL to MariaDB in Ubuntu.Installation procedure:sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 0xcbcb082a1bb943dbModify /etc/apt/sources.list, add:# MariaDB 5.5 repository list - created 2013-04-08 14:44 UTC# http://mariadb.org/m...

HP has just released its first beta version of the webOS, It is said the user experience of webOS is quite impressive, so I immediately had it installed on my PC. There are two versions of Beta release,one embedded version and one Ubuntu version. I briefly share my installation experience of webOS in Linux.In the official document, it says "By 'Linux' we mean 'Ubuntu Linux'", it doesn't support server version and 64 bit version of Ubuntu. Here I use Mint 13.1. Clone source code from githubAddress : https://github.com/openwebos/build-desktopgit command :1git clone https://github.com/openwebos/b...