Projects to Learn Linux

scottalanmiller

Yeah, it's not tragic, but the ways that we are used to working are gone. So have to adapt.

Dashrender

@johnhooks said:

I just finished setting up an ELK server. Much less painful than I expected

Mine was horribly painful a year ago. I haven't come back to it. My problem was trying to go CentOS 7 when it was too new. If I had done CentOS 6 then, it would likely have been simple.

I was the same, about 3 months ago I started one, but ran into road blocks.. haven't gone back yet.

dafyre

I wouldn't mind seeing a good guide for ELK. I've thought about setting one up, but never had the resoures in my home lab until recently.

Joy

@scottalanmiller said:

Few things on Linux are ever as painful as people imagine that they will be.

That was me before- I thought it was very painful, but as time goes by I discovered it's not that painful if you're already familiar or at least you already know the command.
And I need to do work more to improve my knowledge. Looking forward to start working on learning Linux projects.

scottalanmiller

@dafyre said:

I wouldn't mind seeing a good guide for ELK. I've thought about setting one up, but never had the resoures in my home lab until recently.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-4-on-centos-7

dafyre

@scottalanmiller Thanks.

stacksofplates

@scottalanmiller said:

@dafyre said:

I wouldn't mind seeing a good guide for ELK. I've thought about setting one up, but never had the resoures in my home lab until recently.

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-4-on-centos-7

That's the one I used.

If you want to cheat, they have a one click installer

scottalanmiller

Definitely no need to build your own from scratch. They have they prebuilt for you.

dafyre

I tried to Spin it up on CentOS7 at home last night... I got it almost working, but I'm still missing something aparently...

Where's that one-click installer at? I didn't see it anywhere...

scottalanmiller

When you go to build a new machine on Digital Ocean, you select ELK as the VM type.

scottalanmiller

Here you go...

scottalanmiller

Calling it a "one click installer" is very confusing. It's nothing like that. It's a pre-built image.

dafyre

@scottalanmiller Ah, this would be my problem... I'm trying to build it myself, lol. Once I can deploy it by hand, then I'd look at a DO droplet or the like.

Learn it the hard way first, that way when you break it from the one-click-installer, you can at least go digging to figure out why it broke.

dafyre

So I got my own ELK stack installed in my meager office lab... It wasn't too teribly bad... I enjoy using the most recent packages when I (attempt) to build something, so I used the latest & greatest betas out for Logstash and Elastic. A few quick googles and I was good. 8-)

Now to replicate this on my home server which arguably sees more traffic than my office test setup, lol.

Joy

Just finished installing Mediawiki on Centos

http://104.167.112.241/index.php/Talk:Main_Page

Joy

I want to install next is Logging Server

mlnews

@Joy said:

I want to install next is Logging Server

Any particular kind?

Joy

@mlnews said:

@Joy said:

I want to install next is Logging Server

Any particular kind?

I was reading this one, trying to figure out

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-elasticsearch-logstash-and-kibana-4-on-centos-7

scottalanmiller

ELK is definitely the way to go. So powerful!

dafyre

That DO article left out some steps about allowing Firewall rules for some of the ports, I think. I've bee na few days since I've looked at it... I have noticed that I need to set the Kiban4 and logstash processes to restart once a day or the whole thing stops.