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I have a working Ansible Playbook that installs the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana and for this example, Filebeat) across three different computers. I have tested the playbook several times and it works each time which is a great sign, however the playbook itself is a little messy. Note: All…

I’m currently spending time learning more about the ELK stack, which is made up of ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana (ELK) and Beats. The ELK stack can be created and run within containers (e.g. Docker) but I am going to use an Ansible Playbook to install and configure the ELK stack. You…

When using the terminal or command line in a Linux operating system you can recall your previous commands using the up arrow but did you know that you can also potentially recall commands from a lot further back? This functionality is provided via a command called history. “I go into…

With an understanding on how permissions work in Linux, and how to change them, it is probably time for a blog post on chown. Before jumping into chown, let’s look at the permission of an object in more detail using stat, and a little bit of an overview on Linux…

In my previous blog post I discussed how Linux file permissions work, and now I am going to discuss how to change permissions using chmod. Note: Only the object owner, superuser or root account can change the permissions of a file/folder. chmod chmod is the command used to change the…

Permissions on Linux can be a little confusing if you are new to Linux. Today my aim is to write a blog post to help with a discussion on viewing permissions and how permissions work. Viewing Permissions I personally use the command ls -ahl which should return all the files/folders within…