If you need to quickly standup a secure HTTPS server on a machine, perhaps to validate that a client is sending the proper method or parameters, the socat utility can assist. In this article we will use “socat.local” as the FQDN of our certificate and host. Maybe you already have a pem key+certificate for this … Linux: socat used as secure HTTPS web server
The Windows Zabbix Agent provides a native interface to the Windows Performance Counters. and Event Log. This means that with minimal overhead, and no additional shells out to Powerscript or the command line, you can collect any of the metrics available from PerfMon or Event Viewer.
Cloud Foundry is an opinionated Platform-as-a-Service that allows you to manage applications at scale. It supports multiple infrastructure platforms, and is able to standardize deployment, logging, scaling, and routing in a way friendly to a continuous delivery pipeline. This article is Part 1 of a series on Cloud Foundry concepts: Deploying the spring-music webapp, Part 1 … CloudFoundry: Deploying the spring-music webapp, Part 1
When tasked with deploying a web application and it is not responsive to your browser requests, sometimes you need to take a step back from the complexity of your full stack and run a quick sanity check. You can use netcat as a simple web server to prove to yourself that the network infrastructure is … Ubuntu: Simulating a Web Server using Netcat