TIC & Educación

Armbian has been around for a while, almost since the release of the first Raspberry Pi. It’s a Linux distribution, based on Debian and now on Ubuntu, aiming to support most single-board computers (Raspberry Pi but not only). In this tutorial, I will give you all the steps to get started with it.

The latest version of Armbian is compatible with all recent models of Raspberry Pi (3, 4, 400, and Zero 2). Two images are available on their website: CLI (minimal version) or Desktop (preloaded with XFCE). These images can be flashed to an SD card or USB stick with Raspberry Pi Imager or Etcher.

Don’t worry, I’ll explain every step in detail in this tutorial. I’ll also give you a few tips to use Armbian, and answer some of your questions about it.

Nginx is primarily a web server, but can also be used as a proxy server. It’s free, open-source and often in direct competition with Apache to build web applications. As a web developer, I’m more used to Apache, but Nginx is known to be almost 3 times faster and lighter, which is great for a Raspberry Pi. Let’s see how to get it on your Pi.

The main package for Nginx is available in the default Raspberry Pi repository, so it can be installed with apt directly: “sudo apt install nginx”. The web files can then be created under /var/www/html and the configuration is made in /etc/nginx.