Bare Metal Servers

This article explains how to do a dry run of an Ansible playbook by using the built-in check mode feature. Ansible is an Infrastructure as Code tool that allows you to use a single control node to monitor and manage remote servers. It allows you to manage remote servers by creating playbooks, which contain lists of tasks for the remote servers to perform.

This article talks about the available billing models for Bare Metal Cloud servers. Here, you will also learn how to view the usage reports, deploy a server from an existing reservation, and cancel the auto-renew option.

Upgrade from Ubuntu 16.04 to Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) in a couple of simple steps. This guide shows you two different ways to upgrade your Ubuntu 16.04 system - through the graphical user interface or the command line.

In Linux, an NTFS partition is accessed in dual-boot setups where file exchange between drives is required. This article provides a detailed explanation of the NTFS partition mounting process.

Ansible allows you to quickly and easily use a single control node to manage a multiple remote servers. You can use Ansible to create files and folders on remote servers. This tutorial covers several ways to do that.

Creating and deleting partitions in Linux is common because users must structure storage devices (USB and hard drives) before using them. In this tutorial, you will learn how to delete a partition in Linux.

This guide shows you how to use the Remote Console functionality in the Bare Metal Cloud Portal. Before you can do so, you must create a user with a password using your terminal, and this guide covers that as well.

This article helps you install IPMItool on your CentOS or Ubuntu system. Download, install and enable IPMItool and get to know the most common IPMItool commands today.

This article explains how to automate the deployment of Apache Spark clusters on Bare Metal Cloud. Learn how to provision a Bare Metal Cloud server and deploy a Spark cluster with our Python code examples.

Learn how to successfully install the Bare Metal Cloud Ansible module on your control machine. Take a look at the benefits of using this module and how to use playbooks to effectively manage your servers.