system-administration

Install & configure FreeIPA Server & Client (RHEL/CentOS 7)

Step by Step guide tutorial on how to install and configure FreeIPA, ipa server LDAP, kerberos, DNS and IPA client on RHEL/CentOS 7 Linux with GUI and CLI

Deepak Prasad12 min read
devops

What is fencing | Setup KVM cluster fencing RHEL CentOS 8

Step-by-Step Tutorial to configure cluster fencing, stonith device in RHEL and CentOS 8 Linux. Use fence_xvm to fence KVM HA Cluster nodes. Setup pacemaker fencing.

Deepak Prasad10 min read
linux

Install Oh My Zsh on Linux [Step-by-Step]

Step by Step instructions to install Oh My Zsh on different Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Red Hat, CentOS, Debian, OpenSuSE, Arch Linux

Omer Cakmak5 min read
linux

Convert CentOS 8 to Rocky Linux 8

As you know, CentOS Linux 8 became the end of life on 31 Dec 2021. It will now continue its life as CentOS Stream 8. Many people/organizations using CentOS

Omer Cakmak5 min read
devops

Install ELK stack on Rocky Linux 8

Step by step instructions to install ELK Stack on Rocky Linux. Install Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana

Deepak Prasad8 min read
linux

Setup Grafana with Prometheus Rocky Linux 8

In this guide, we shall setup Grafana with Prometheus on Rocky Linux 8, we will use Grafana instance on the same server so that we can visualize metrics populated by the Prometheus service.

Deepak Prasad9 min read
system-administration

Create KVM virtual machine | virt-manager | RHEL CentOS 8

Step-by-Step Guide to create KVM Virtual Machine using Virtual Manager in RHEL and CentOS 8 Linux. Create VM, Take Snapshot, Assign Networks using Virtual manager GUI

Deepak Prasad6 min read
linux

Install MongoDB on AlmaLinux 8 [Step-by-Step]

Step by Step instructions to install mongodb on AlmaLinux 8. Access mongodb shell, create admin user, establish a connection with mongodb server using a different client. configure firewall and selinux

Deepak Prasad6 min read
linux

Install Rancher on Rocky Linux 9 [Step-by-Step]

Step by step instructions to install rancher on Rocky Linux 9 with screenshots.

Omer Cakmak6 min read
linux

Install R on Rocky Linux 8 & 9

Step by Step instructions to install R Programming Language in Rocky Linux. Download and Install specific version of R language

Omer Cakmak5 min read
system-administration

How to install Oracle Virtual Box on Linux (CentOS / RHEL 7)

Step by step Guide to install Oracle Virtual Box on RHEL / CentOS 7 Linux. To install Oracle Virtual Box you need EPEL repo. Oracle Virtual 5.2 is out now

Deepak Prasad3 min read
networking

How to create and configure network bridge using nmcli (static & dhcp)

Configure network bridge using nmcli for static and dhcp ip. nmcli connection reload. nmcli onboot. nmcli network manager centos 7. nmcli con add modify

Deepak Prasad7 min read
system-administration

How to enable SSH access & configure network in rescue mode (CentOS/RHEL

Steps to enable SSH access in linux rescue mode and configure network in rescue mode in RHEL/CentOS 7/8 with example transfer sosreport file inst.sshd=1

Deepak Prasad4 min read
linux

Fix 'there are no enabled repos' & create local repository in RHEL 7 & 8;

Create local repository using yum and dnf in RHEL 7 and 8 Fix there are no enabled repos Perform yum install without subscription. Create Offline yum repo Linux

Deepak Prasad10 min read
security

How to check security updates list & perform linux patch management RHEL

Perform Linux patch management in RHEL 6/7/8 Linux in LIVE production environment. Identify vulnerabilities list and security updates list then apply patch

Deepak Prasad11 min read
linux

Solved: Failed to restart network.service: Unit network.service not found in RHEL 8

Network scripts are deprecated in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and they are no longer provided by default. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, to run the ifup and the ifdown scripts, NetworkManager must be running. By default …

Deepak Prasad3 min read
linux

How to install certbot [Let's Encrypt] on Rocky Linux 9

Step by Step instructions to install and generate certs using Let's Encrypt (certbot) on Rocky Linux 9. Generate and deploy certs for Nginx and Apache server.

Omer Cakmak7 min read
linux

How to disable firewall in Rocky Linux? [SOLVED]

A firewall is a must for every server system but there are times when for debugging purpose we would like to stop and disable the firewalld service. In this

Omer Cakmak6 min read
linux

Create Stratis File System (thin provision) with examples (CentOS/RHEL 8)

Stratis Architecture, Steps to create stratis file system with thin provision, create stratis pool, mounting stratis file system on rhel 8 linux with examples

Deepak Prasad10 min read
linux

Solved: vncserver service failed a configured resource limit was exceeded

vncserver service failed because a configured resource limit was exceeded tigervnc on RHEL 7, remove temporary files from under /tmp and /tmp/.X11-unix/.

Deepak Prasad4 min read
linux

How to configure bridged network in virt-manager (CentOS / RHEL 7)

Steps to configure bridged network in virt-manager. Virtual Machine Manager provides a graphical tool for administering virtual machines for KVM, Xen etc

Deepak Prasad3 min read
networking

How to create or configure NIC Teaming using nmcli (CentOS / RHEL 7/8)

Learn to configure NIC teaming on CentOS/RHEL 7 Linux node. RHEL 7 implements network teaming with a small kernel driver and a user-space daemon, teamd.

Deepak Prasad7 min read
linux

How to protect GRUB2 from booting kernel without password in Linux

Learn to set password to protect grub2 from booting a kernel without password. in rhel 7.To set password and protect grub2 remove unrestricted in menuentry

Deepak Prasad3 min read
linux

How to exit full screen mode in qemu virt-manager ( RHEL / CentOS 7)

How to exit full screen mode in qemu virt-manager for kvm hosts or get out of fullscreen. This article is validated on RHEL / CentOS 7 Linux on vnc viewer.

Deepak Prasad2 min read
linux

Understanding High Availability Cluster and Architecture

Understand thearchitectecture of different kinds of cluster i.e. high performance, load balancing and high availability cluster in Red Hat Linux

Deepak Prasad4 min read
linux

Guide to troubleshoot Cluster Resource (RHEL / CentOS 7)

Configure high availability cluster, create cluster resource and troubleshoot cluster resource for a cluster on Red Hat / CentOS 7 with examples.

Deepak Prasad5 min read
devops

How to create cluster resource in HA Cluster (with examples)

Configure High Availability Cluster and configure cluster resource and add behind the cluster in CentOS and Red Hat 7 Linux using pcs resource create..

Deepak Prasad8 min read
linux

How to change tmpfs partition size in Linux ( RHEL / CentOS 7 )

Increase decrease, change tmpfs partition size in Red Hat Linux 7, /run /run/user/$PID /dev/shm /sys/fc/cgroup using fstab RuntimeDirectorySize logind.conf

Deepak Prasad6 min read
system-administration

How to set default boot kernel on Linux ( CentOS / RHEL 7 )

How to set default boot kernel in linux? Change the default boot entry for kernel ? Boot with old kernel version ? Revert to previous kernel version ?

Deepak Prasad3 min read
linux

How to install and configure two node cluster in Linux ( CentOS / RHEL 7 )

How to install configure two node cluster in linux on centos rhel 7 using vmware virtualbox corosync-quorumtool two_node wait_for_all auto_tie_breaker

Deepak Prasad5 min read