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How to create snapshot and restore snapshot with elasticsearch

In this post we will show you how to create snapshots and restore those snapshots with ElasticSearch easily. This is a very easy method if you want to migrate your current elasticsearch cluster to a new version, which cannot be performed on major upgrades, and you don't want to loose

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How to install Ansible and use it to upgade a server.

For this tutorial we will install Ansible 2 on debian jessie. In order to install the latest version of ansible on debian jessie we will need to compile it from source since the official debian repositories does not support Ansible 2.x yet. Therefore first we will need to fetch

debian

Loadbalance your website with haproxy and varnish

In this post will show how to install haproxy and varnish. The setup will have haproxy as frontend and varnish will be between haproxy and the nodes. Why not use varnish as a frontend? Because in case you would like to use https varnish does not have https support. We