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Install WireGuard VPN on Ubuntu 24.04 on a Raff VM. Configure keys, IPv4 forwarding, NAT, UFW, full-tunnel routing, client access, and verification.
Set up WireGuard VPN on Ubuntu 24.04 for private access to a Raff VM. Generate keys, configure a client peer, open UDP 51820, and verify the tunnel.
Learn how to connect two Raff VMs using a private VPC network. Covers network creation, VM attachment, UFW rules, and bandwidth testing with iperf3.
Set up UFW on Ubuntu 24.04 without losing SSH access. Configure IPv4 and IPv6 rules, web ports, source restrictions, logging, and Docker caveats.
Install and configure Nginx on Ubuntu 24.04: UFW firewall, custom server block, logs, the latest-version option from nginx.org, and a clean uninstall.
Learn Kubernetes load balancer vs ingress controller trade-offs for HTTP/HTTPS, TCP/UDP, TLS, shared routing, isolation, and Gateway API choices.
Learn Kubernetes DNS and service discovery troubleshooting across namespaces, Services, EndpointSlices, CoreDNS, resolver settings, and NetworkPolicy failures.
Learn Kubernetes NetworkPolicy design for small teams: default deny, namespace isolation, ingress, egress, DNS, rollout checks, and Raff VPC context.
Learn Kubernetes Services, ClusterIP, NodePort, LoadBalancer, and Ingress, and choose the right traffic exposure model for production workloads.
Learn Kubernetes networking and storage architecture: Pods, Services, VPCs, ingress, PersistentVolumes, StorageClasses, policies, and recovery boundaries.
Understand public vs private networking, NAT, DNS, firewalls, admin access, and service boundaries for safer cloud application architectures and VPC design.
Understand private cloud networking for MSP client isolation, including per-client VPCs, management access, shared services, CIDR planning, incidents, and offboarding.
Learn site-to-site VPN architecture for hybrid cloud: plan CIDRs, routing, WireGuard or IPsec, firewall policy, availability, and Raff VPC connectivity.
Learn VPC architecture for multi-VM apps: plan private traffic, CIDR ranges, routing, firewalls, load balancing, DNS, NAT, and recovery on Raff.
Learn cloud networking fundamentals across VPCs, routing, NAT, DNS, firewalls, load balancing, peering, VPNs, and production traffic boundaries.
Diagnose cloud server performance bottlenecks across CPU, memory, disk I/O, network, databases, and dependencies before resizing or scaling.
Learn when to separate app and database servers for SaaS, compare managed vs self-hosted paths, and plan networking, recovery, cost, and migration.
Learn how to choose a U.S. cloud server for latency, data location, security, and compliance using a practical region and network decision framework.
Understand load balancing, L4 vs L7 routing, health checks, failover, draining, state, TLS, and multi-node architecture decisions.
Plan DNS for cloud applications across record types, TTL, caching, migrations, load balancing, failover, DNSSEC, CAA, and end-to-end monitoring.
Compare reverse proxies and load balancers across L4/L7 routing, TLS, health checks, failover, session state, scaling, and production architecture.
Learn DDoS protection for small teams with a risk framework for exposure, traffic layers, response planning, recovery, and cloud server controls.
Understand inbound and outbound firewall rules, the least privilege principle, and how to design a firewall policy for your Raff cloud infrastructure. A practical decision framework for sysadmins and DevOps teams.
Compare public SSH, bastion hosts, and VPN access models for cloud servers, private networks, databases, Windows RDP, and small-team infrastructure.
Compare IPv4, IPv6, and dual-stack networking for cloud servers, including DNS, firewalls, application binding, monitoring, and migration planning.
Learn when to choose Caddy vs Nginx for reverse proxying in 2026. Compare HTTPS, configuration, performance, and operations for modern cloud deployments.
Learn cloud firewall best practices for inbound, outbound, administrative, private, IPv4, and IPv6 traffic without overexposing services.
Learn the cloud security fundamentals small teams need across identity, network exposure, server hardening, secrets, recovery, monitoring, and incident response.
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