Dear All,

I have been asked questions that is there an alternative for SSL certificates. Well it’s nice to have one i.e LetsEncrypt which gives you free SSL for atleast 90 days on your registered domain. Not only this you can use this certificate on Amazon Web Services Load Balancer and also on MS Azure cloud portals.

I personally have tried it and you can use the certbot utility to generate certificates for your domain. Not only certbot command lets you generate certificates but also helps you to auto deploy it with nginx/apache webservers too without any hiccups also firing a rewrite rule for redirecting traffic from http to https too.

On the renewal date certbot renew can be used to renew your domain SSL Certificates too.

To understand and implement LetsEncrypt for say your wordpress site you can use the following link :-

Generate Lets Encrypt Free HTTPS SSL Certificate

https://letsencrypt.org/docs/

One more alternative which you can use is https://zerossl.com/ and also can be used for windows.

Feel free for any questions/queries.

Cheers,
Alok Thaker

Dear All,

Thanks for loving Johnny webseries on my youtube channel. I am back with a flyer song for the same. Every view counts the sponsors would give 2Rs view to cancer patients. One more great news is that some action sequences requiring special effects and VFX would be done on linux high end machines.

Johnny1 all episodes on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iB7XwqzpulQ, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqFvgHXKDYY&t=54s,https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-c5j83Uyao.Do share,like & Subscribe.

Enjoy the flyer song of Johnny2 on

Dear Readers,

It has been long time I didn’t shoot any album after 31st Dec, after daughters are blessings. So kind of tie up with various ngo’s for social causes I decided to entertain the audience and people with every view on my latest album urvashi going for social causes like cancer,old age homes, handicapped people etc. I am aossociated with milaap.org and run various campaigns locally and online for crowdfunding for the people. Some of the campaigns I have run are

http://milaap.org/fundraisers/help-chandubhai
https://milaap.org/fundraisers/help-darshan/
https://milaap.org/fundraisers/help-kiran-patil
https://milaap.org/fundraisers/help-ajinkya

I also run local campaigns in Vadodara Gujarat for various social causes and also social awareness programmes on cancer,diabetes,heart attack causes etc. So very view counts for us and we would give 2Rs per view on this album with tie up with various contributors & sponsors for social causes. We would also post pics & video for the donation given from the album as well. So please do watch,share & subscribe on Alok Thaker youtube channel or Alok Film Production Youtube channel.

Cheers & Happy Linuxing
Alok Thaker

Dear All,

Long time I haven’t been blogging for while as been busy with loads of work stuff. So today’s topic I am going to cover is CICD(Continuous Integration,Continuous Delivery & Continuous Deployment) using open source tools for Linux.

Best tools for CICD is apache jenkins,Team City,Gitlab CI,Drone etc. I personally prefer jenkins over all because it gives loads of flexibility for a devops guy to build,automate and deploy making it the most suitable.

Few Posts which I found useful to start for me with jenkins are as follows :-

http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/Jenkins/article.html

https://www.linuxtechi.com/install-configure-jenkins-on-centos-7-rhel-7/

It’s your choice of which tool you want to go for CICD but I would surely suggest for jenkins.

Feel free for any questions/queries.

-Alok Thaker

Dear Friends,

Wait is over after streaming successfully on Amazon Prime US & UK now The Linux Guy movie is now on

Please love,watch,share & subscribe. Tons of Hard work has gone to make this dream into reality.

Cheers,
Alok Thaker

Dear All,

I was working on remote sychronization of pushing files to various servers normally preferred choice was to do an ssh and rsync with password less authentication but somehow came to know about rdist tool which is quite handy tool for remote sync transfer of files.

rdist requires rsh to be installed which you can do on a centos box by the command yum install -y rsh rdist

After installation is done. You have to create distfile for the remote transfer but before writing a file you have to setup password less authentication between the nodes which you want to transfer files. Following are the steps for the same :-
#ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 1024
#ssh-copy-id root@192.168.223.135 (To transfer the keys for password less authentication)

Create a distfile for eg with following syntax :-

HOSTS = ( ldap1 root@ldap1 )

FILES = (/root/tdist/* )

(${FILES}) -> (${HOSTS})
install -R ;
${FILES} :: /root/tdist/*
notify root@ldap1;
# End of distfile file

The file commands are quite self explanatory. HOSTS refers to the remote host where the file needs to be transferred with the username.Files refer to the files to be transferred and destination. If the directory tdist is not there it would be created and all files in tdist directory would be remotely transferred. After first revision if the files are there and not updated on source host the files won’t be updated. Another advantage of rdist is that it keeps the timestamp,permissions,ownerships intact.

Now how to run the rdist command with ssh protocol.
rdist -P /usr/bin/ssh -f /rdist/distfile

You should be able to see the verbose output of the successful transfer.

Cheers. Please feel free for any queries/suggestions.

-Alok Thaker

Dear Friends,

After living a dream of the linux guy streaming on amazon prime. Me,Adilkhan Balooch & Anzerkhan Balooch dreamt of making a hindi bollywood movie which not only gives a strong social message on male chauvinism,dowry,domestic voilence,caste politics etc but also show your things to do in your life what you can achieve if you want too.

After the linux guy which had a message how a linux professor comes in college and changes the lives of 4 losers and make them successful. Things To Do is your story,mine story and everyone’s story it’s a journey of ups and downs of various individuals who are willing to get their things to do at any cost. It has romance,thrill,action,glamour,college and relates to you being a disabled dancer, a struggling RJ, a married women who wanted to be pilot, a canteen guy who want to become a basketball national player,a college politician who wanted to win elections big time and what not. Please love,share and support as we are new film makers but with sense of creative cinema. All talented artist are taken from gujarat (India) and they have shown their metal. I request all the viewers and bloggers to check out the trailer and support us in giving a good cinema.

This is a hindi bollywood project titled “Things To Do”.

Things To Do is not my story it’s everyone’s story…inspired from real stories from apru gujarat and shot in apru ahmedabad….Check out the official trailer now…Love,share & support common Gujarat..show that we have tons of talent and we rock anywhere anytime.

Check out the trailer now on :-

Thanks & Regards,
Alok Thaker
www.alokthaker.com

Dear All,

Wishing you all my readers and viewers a fabulous new year ahead with loads of goodies plus god blessings to you and family. As an entertainer I wanted to start a new year with a message of saving the girl child and to emphasis how daughters makes anyone’s world complete. Though I am single but still really love this little angels and I request that girls have all the rights to live their dreams and goals. They should be provided full support  without any discrimination. Request you to love,share and subscribe to our channel. We would keep providing quality content.

Love,

Alok Thaker

Dear All,

It feels great sharing that another dream of creating an action webseries have been completed. After successful hit of johnny’s trailer we have released johnny’s first episode of action,romance,thrill,comedy with a perfect dose of entertainment.

Feel free to love,watch,share and subscribe.

Love & Cheers,

Alok

Dear All,

After the linux guy streaming well on Amazon prime US,UK and Canada. I have been working on a web series which as action,thrill,romance,drama and martial arts. This project has been close to my heart and hope you all would love it. Here releasing the trailer and 1st episode would be aired soon too.

Love,

Alok Thaker