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Here are some steps that need to be done when creating a VM template that will be used multiple times: Template Usage See this page to setup a deployed instance from a template VM: Ubuntu Host Setup References Here’s a good reference for template generatio...

Here’s a list of steps to connect with an SSH server from a Windows PC using SSH key authentication. Open the Putty application, Putty.exe. From the GUI, set the hostname and port of the SSH service, and come up with a memorable name for the session, and sav...

Once you have confirmed that you have SSH key access to a Linux host (using SSH without a password), it is safe to disable password-based authentication. WARNING: This step will lock down password-based logins, so ensuring that you will still be able to get a...

Here are steps to setup the SSH server on an Ubuntu host. Here's a good reference article for how to do what we're doing here: How to Enable SSH on Ubuntu 20.04 Here are the commands to execute: sudo apt update Install the SSH server with this: sudo apt i...

Here's a quick and dirty way to upload SSH keys to a remote user account, using the CAT command. This can be done, if your local host doesn't have the ssh-copy-id utility. If you do not have ssh-copy-id available, but you have password-based SSH access to an...

See this article for an update based on obsolete SHA-1 RSA key usage: Ubuntu 22.04 SSH the RSA key isn't working since upgrading from 20.04 NOTE: We currently have two tutorials for this, that need to be consolidated into one. So, maybe this alternate tutoria...

Here are some things to check on when the disk on a docker host gets full. sudo docker system prune -a -f This will cleanup other resource types: docker system prune -a This command will remove older logs from the container logs folder: sudo find /project...

Here are the minimal steps to setup a clean Ubuntu VM. Note: These instructions are tested on on Ubuntu v22 through v24.They may require updates for other versions. Spawn VM Clone The first step is to spawn a clone of the template VM. Be sure to do the fol...

Reference: https://ubuntu.com/server/docs/install-a-root-ca-certificate-in-the-trust-store Install the CA certificate package: sudo apt-get install -y ca-certificates Now, you can install any local intranet root CA, with this: NOTE: We are copying in the ....

This how to consolidates several aspects of setting up SSH key access to a Linux server. NOTE: We currently have two tutorials for this, that need to be consolidated into one. So, maybe this alternate tutorial fills your use-case: Ubuntu SSH Key Access NOTE:...