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Revision as of 15:59, 6 January 2022
Todo: This material needs to be re-organized .. as Howtos are smaller articles and tutorials are more detailed document both need to be reordered as independent sections
Welcome to Tutorials and Howtos, a place of basic and advanced configuration tasks for your Alpine Linux.
The tutorials are hands-on and the reader is expected to try and achieve the goals described in each step, possibly with the help of a good example. The output in one step is the starting point for the following step.
Howtos are smaller articles explaining how to perform a particular task with Alpine Linux, that expects a minimal knowledge from reader to perform actions.
IMPORTANT: contributions on those pages must be complete articles as well as requesting topics to be covered, don't override already made contributions. If you want to request a topic, please add your request in this page's Discussion.
Postinstall: desktops and applications
- Desktop environments and Window managers (overall information only)
- Alpine and UEFI Support Status and related topics
Developers: compilers, IDEs and tools
Servers: deploy in production
- Alpine production deploy
- Alpine production monitoring
Storage
- Alpine local backup (lbu) (Permanently store your modifications in case your box needs reboot)
- Setting up disks manually
- Setting up a software RAID array
- Raid Administration
- Setting up encrypted volumes with LUKS
- Setting up LVM on LUKS
- Setting up Logical Volumes with LVM
- Formatting HD/Floppy/Other
- Setting up iSCSI
- Setting up NBD
- Setting up ZFS on LUKS
- Setting up ZFS with native encryption
- High performance SCST iSCSI Target on Linux software Raid (deprecated)
- Linux iSCSI Target (TCM)
- Disk Replication with DRBD
- Burning ISOs
- Partitioning and Bootmanagers
- Migrating data
- Create a bootable SDHC from a Mac
- Alpine on ARM
Networking
- Configure Networking
- Connecting to a wireless access point
- Bonding
- Vlan
- Bridge
- Bridge wlan0 to eth0
- OpenVSwitch
- How to configure static routes
- Configure a Wireguard interface (wg)
- Alpine Wall - How-To Alpine Wall - Alpine Wall User's Guide (a new firewall management framework)
- Using serial modem
- Using HSDPA modem
- Setting up Satellite Internet Connection
- Using Alpine on Windows domain with IPSEC isolation
- Setting up a SSH server (Using SSH is the preferred way to administer your box remotely)
- HOWTO OpenSSH 2FA with password and Google Authenticator (A simple two factor setup for OpenSSH)
- How to setup a wireless access point (Setting up Secure Wireless AP w/ WPA encryption with bridge to wired network)
- How to set up Alpine as a wireless router (Setting up a firewalled, Wireless AP with wired network on a Pi Zero W)
- Setting up a OpenVPN server with Alpine (Allowing single users or devices to remotely connect to your network)
- Experiences with OpenVPN-client on ALIX.2D3
- Generating SSL certs with ACF
- Setting up unbound DNS server
- Setting up nsd DNS server
- TinyDNS Format
- Fault Tolerant Routing with Alpine Linux
- Freeradius Active Directory Integration
- Multi_ISP (Dual-ISP setup with load-balancing and automatic failover)
- OwnCloud (Installing OwnCloud)
Post-Install
- Setting up a new user
- Enable Community Repository (Providing additional packages)
- Package Management (apk) (How to add/remove packages on your Alpine)
- Alpine local backup (lbu) (Permanently store your modifications in case your box needs reboot)
- Init System (OpenRC) (Configure a service to automatically boot at next reboot)
- Setting up Xorg
- Upgrading Alpine
- Setting up a ssh-server (Using ssh is a good way to administer your box remotely)
- HOWTO OpenSSH 2FA with password and Google Authenticator (A simple two factor setup for OpenSSH)
- setup-acf (Configures ACF (webconfiguration) so you can manage your box through https)
- Changing passwords
- Ansible (Configuration management)
- Enable Serial Console on Boot
- How to get regular stuff working some notes on need-to-know topics
- Installing Oracle Java
- Setting up periodic backups with rsnapshot
Virtualization
- Xen Dom0 (Setting up Alpine as a dom0 for Xen hypervisor)
- Xen Dom0 on USB or SD
- Create Alpine Linux PV DomU
- Xen PCI Passthrough
- Xen LiveCD
- QEMU
- KVM (Setting up Alpine as a KVM hypervisor)
- LXC (Setting up a Linux container in Alpine Linux)
- Docker
- Install_Alpine_on_VirtualBox
- Install Alpine on VMWare
Desktop Environment
- AwesomeWM
- dwm
- EyeOS (Cloud Computing Desktop)
- Gnome
- KDE
- MATE
- Oneye (Cloud Computing Desktop - Dropbox Alternative)
- Nextcloud (Self hostable cloud suite - Dropbox Alternative)
- Remote Desktop Server
- River
- Suspend on LID close
- Sway
- Xfce Desktop
- Sound Setup
- PipeWire
- Printer Setup
- Default applications
Raspberry Pi
- Raspberry Pi (Installation)
- Raspberry Pi - Headless Installation
- Classic install or sys mode on Raspberry Pi
- RPI Video Receiver (network video decoder using Rasperry Pi and omxplayer)
- Linux Router with VPN on a Raspberry Pi
- Linux Router with VPN on a Raspberry Pi (IPv6)
- Raspberry Pi 4 - Persistent system acting as a NAS and Time Machine
- Raspberry Pi 3 - Configuring it as wireless access point -AP Mode
- Raspberry Pi 3 - Setting Up Bluetooth
- Raspberry Pi 3 - Browser Client - kiosk or digital sign
- Raspberry Pi Zero W - Installation
- Raspberry Pi Bluetooth Speaker
PowerPC
IBM Z (IBM z Systems)
Applications
Telephony
- Setting up Zaptel/Asterisk on Alpine
- Freepbx on Alpine Linux
- FreePBX_V3 (FreeSWITCH, Asterisk GUI web acces tool)
- 2600hz (FreeSWITCH, Asterisk GUI web access tool)
- Kamailio (SIP Server, formerly OpenSER)
- Hosting services on Alpine (Hosting mail, webservices and other services)
- ISP Mail Server HowTo
- ISP Mail Server Upgrade 2.x
- ISP Mail Server 2.x HowTo (Beta, please test)
- ISP Mail Server 3.x HowTo
- Roundcube (Webmail system)
- Setting up postfix with virtual domains
- Protecting your email server with Alpine
- Setting up clamsmtp
- Setting up dovecot with imap and ssl
- relay email to gmail (msmtp, mailx, sendmail
HTTP
- High Availability High Performance Web Cache (uCarp + HAProxy for High Availability Services such as Squid web proxy)
- Setting up Transparent Squid Proxy
- SqStat (Script to look at active squid users connections)
- Obtaining user information via SNMP (Using squark-auth-snmp as a Squid authentication helper)
- Setting up Explicit Squid Proxy
- Drupal (Content Management System (CMS) written in PHP)
- WordPress (Web software to create website or blog)
- MediaWiki (Free web-based wiki software application)
- DokuWiki
- Darkhttpd
- Tomcat
- Kopano (Microsoft Outlook compatible Groupware)
Other Servers
- Setting up a ssh-server (Using ssh is a good way to administer your box remotely)
- HOWTO OpenSSH 2FA with password and Google Authenticator (A simple two factor setup for OpenSSH)
- Setting up a nfs-server
- Setting up a samba-server (standard file sharing)
- Setting up a samba-ad-dc (Active Directory compatible domain controller)
- Phpizabi (Social Networking Platform)
- Statusnet (Microblogging Platform)
- Pastebin (Pastebin software application)
- Setting up Transmission (bittorrent) with Clutch WebUI
- Patchwork (Patch review management system)
- Redmine (Project management system)
- Request-Tracker (Ticket system)
- OsTicket (Ticket system)
- Trac (Enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects)
- Setting up Git management web frontend gitea
- Cgit
- Roundcube (Webmail system)
- Glpi (Manage inventory of technical resources)
- How to setup a Alpine Linux mirror
- Cups
- NgIRCd (Server for Internet Relay Chat/IRC)
- How To Setup Your Own IRC Network (Using charybdis and atheme-iris)
- OpenVCP (VServer Control Panel)
- Mahara (E-portfolio and social networking system)
- Using chrony, gpsd, and a garmin LVC 18 as a Stratum 1 NTP source
- Sending SMS using gnokii
- Internet Protocol television (IPTV)
- UniFi_Controller
- DNSCrypt-Proxy Encrypt and authenticate DNS calls from your system
- Odoo
Monitoring
- Setting up collectd
- Traffic monitoring
- Setting up traffic monitoring using rrdtool (and snmp)
- Setting up monitoring using rrdtool (and rrdcollect)
- Cacti: traffic analysis and monitoring network (Front-end for rrdtool networking monitor)
- LTTng (Kernel and userspace tracing)
- Zabbix - the professional complete manager (Monitor and track the status of network services and hardware)
- Setting up A Network Monitoring and Inventory System (Nagios + OpenAudit and related components)
- Setting up NRPE daemon (Performs remote Nagios checks)
- Smokeping (Network latency monitoring)
- Ntop (NetFlow collection and analysis using a remote fprobe instance)
- Cvechecker (Compare installed packages for Common Vulnerabilities Exposure)
- IP Accounting
- Obtaining user information via SNMP (Using squark-auth-snmp as a Squid authentication helper)
- SqStat (Script to look at active squid users connections)
- Piwik (A real time web analytics software program)
- Awstats (Free log file analyzer)
- Intrusion Detection using Snort
- Dglog (Log analyzer for the web content filter DansGuardian)
- Webmin (A web-based interface for Linux system)
- PhpPgAdmin (Web-based administration tool for PostgreSQL)
- PhpMyAdmin (Web-based administration tool for MYSQL)
- PhpSysInfo (A simple application that displays information about the host it's running on)
- Linfo
Misc
- Category:Shell
- Category:Programming
- Running glibc programs
- Category:Drivers
- Category:Multimedia
- Kernel Modesetting
- CPU frequency scaling
Complete Solutions
- DIY Fully working Alpine Linux for Allwinner and Other ARM SOCs
- DIY Live-USB-Stick with Sway
- Alpine on the Aopen Chromebase or Chromebox Mini with Mainline Kernel
- Replacing non-Alpine Linux with Alpine remotely
- High performance SCST iSCSI Target on Linux software Raid
- Fault Tolerant Routing with Alpine Linux
- Experiences with OpenVPN-client on ALIX.2D3
- Building a cloud with Alpine Linux
- ISP Mail Server HowTo (Postfix+PostfixAdmin+DoveCot+Roundcube+ClamAV+Spamd - A full-serivce ISP mail server)
- ISP Mail Server Upgrade 2.x
- ISP Mail Server 2.x HowTo (Beta, please test)
- High Availability High Performance Web Cache (uCarp + HAProxy for High Availability Services such as Squid web proxy)
- Setting up A Network Monitoring and Inventory System (Nagios + OpenAudit and related components)
- Streaming Security Camera Video with VLC
- Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN) combined with Small_Office_Services
Newbies
- Alpine_newbie (for overall information in funny sections)