Tutorials and Howtos
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 examples. 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. We encourage people to send in both complete articles as well as requesting topics to be covered. If you think you have the skills and knowledge to write an Alpine Linux related article please do so on this Wiki. If you want to request a topic, please add your request in this page Discussion.
Installation
- Setting up Logical Volumes with LVM
- Replacing non-Alpine Linux with Alpine remotely
- Booting Alpine on an HP ML350 G6
- Installing XFCE as a VirtualBox guest
- Enable Serial Console on Boot
- How to enable APK caching
- Install Alpine on VirtualBox
- Upgrading to Edge
Networking
- Howto Configure a Network Bridge
- Setting up a OpenVPN-server with Alpine
- Setting up traffic monitoring using rrdtool (and snmp)
- Setting up Zaptel/Asterisk on Alpine
- Using HSDPA modem
- Using Alpine on Windows domain with IPSEC isolation
Misc
- Setting up lm_sensors
- Setting up Satellite Internet Connection
- Setting up Streaming an Asterisk Channel
- Formatting HD/Floppy/Other
- Setting up Transmission (bittorrent) with Clutch WebUI
- Hosting services on Alpine (This applies to hosting mail, webservices and other services)
- Running Alpine Linux As a QEMU networked Guest
- Screen on console
- Using espeak on Alpine Linux
- Generating SSL certs with ACF
- Setting up a ssh-server
- Changing passwords
- Multiple Instances of Services
- Setting up NRPE daemon (Performs remote Nagios checks)
- IPTV How To
- ISP Mail Server HowTo (Postfix+PostfixAdmin+DoveCot+Roundcube+ClamAV+Spamd - A full-serivce ISP mail server)
- XFCE Setup
- Freepbx on Alpine Linux
- Setting up Smokeping (Smokeping network latency monitoring)
iSCSI
Vserver
Drafts
Those are not finished yet.
- Using Racoon for Remote Sites
- High Performance and Fault Tolerant Routing with Alpine Linux
- Setting up Transparent Squid Proxy (Covers Squid proxy and URL Filtering system)
- Obtaining user information via SNMP (Using the Squark Squid authentication helper)
Obsolete Docs
Those are candidates for rewriting/removal.