LHB Linux Digest #24.06: Learn Commands, Vagrant Triggers, Git Hooks and More

Hey tiatira,

I added a 'Learn Linux Commands with Examples' section on the homepage.

It has over 70 Linux commands divided into categories at the moment. And all of these categories will have more Linux commands added to them in the near future. This way, you can easily use them for reference and you won't have to look around the website or the internet.

Makes learning a bit easier, isn't it?

💭 What else you get in this edition of LHB Linux Digest:

• Accessing Proxmox lab with dynamic IP
• Beginner's guide to Fail2Ban
• Using triggers in Vagrant
• Tools and memes for Linux lovers

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📖 Linux learnings and tutorials

Helder shares his experience where he cleverly figured out a way to access his homelab behind a router that used dynamic IP.

How I Access Proxmox Homelab Without Static IP from Anywhere

Sharing my experience setting a domain on dynamic IP hosted Promox node.

Linux Handbook •Helder

I just love the simplicity of Fail2Ban. Helps in reducing SSH bot attacks on server.

How to Install and Configure Fail2Ban to Secure Linux Server

This detailed guide teaches you what is Fail2Ban, how to configure it and how to use it for providing an additional layer of security on your Linux system.

Linux Handbook •Abhishek Prakash

BusyBox is getting popular as an alternative to GNU Coreutils, specially for containers.

What is BusyBox in Linux? How to Use it?

Learn why BusyBox has suddenly gained a following among certain Linux users.

Linux Handbook •Abhishek Prakash

📚 DevOps and Self-host Tutorials

Couple of tutorials on streamlining your workflow by adding automation.

The first one is about using Git Hooks to set some preconditions for the commits.

Git Hook Management with Pre-commit

Git provides a powerful tool for automation under the hood: hooks. In this tutorial, you will learn about the pre-commit framework that can bring order and structure to your script collection.

Linux Handbook •LHB Community

Second one is about using Triggers to define automated steps at certain points in the lifecycle of a VM.

Vagrant Triggers: Automate Virtual Machine Lifecycle Events

Vagrant Triggers allow automating specific actions before or after certain stages of a virtual machine’s lifecycle, providing increased control over the management of your development environments.

Linux Handbook •LHB Community

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Linux Foundation has started an all-access subscription for all its training. It also allows 1 certification exam for free in the annual plan.

The good thing is that it is free for the first 10 days till 5th April. Give it a try, maybe?

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💡Quick Terminal tip

While viewing a file in less pager, you can get a small status by pressing the = key. This will display a small bar on the bottom that shows current line numbers in the view, total line number, percent of the file already scrolled past, etc.

📰 Linux news that matters

• The popular xz utility was smartly backdoored in the recent few versions
• Red Hat released Podman 5.0
• Redis move from being open source to source available
• And Linux Foundation forked it to a new open source project named Valkey

🛠️ Nifty tool

Open source, self hosted with ease. It uses Devcontainers spec and scales from a single machine to a global fleet of servers.

GitHub – lapce/lapdev: Self-Hosted Remote Dev Environment

Self-Hosted Remote Dev Environment. Contribute to lapce/lapdev development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub •lapce

😂 Geek humor

🔜 Soon on LHB…

The new courses on Linux command line is almost ready. Editing is in the final phase and it will be published next week. It will be for LHB Pro members only.

This will be the first course in the Cloud Bootcamp program. It may see a changed pricing structure as Cloud Bootcamp is extensive and will be expensive. Existing Pro members won't be affected if the pricing structure is changed.

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