Bacula is a mature, enterprise-class open-source backup solution that supports tape libraries, disk-based storage, and remote clients across heterogeneous environments. Its client-server architecture separates the Director (job scheduler and catalog manager), Storage Daemon (tape or file I/O), and File Daemon (agent running on each backed-up host), allowing you to scale from a single server to […]
DRBD (Distributed Replicated Block Device) provides synchronous, block-level replication between two Linux servers, making it a foundational technology for high-availability storage clusters. Often described as “RAID 1 over the network,” DRBD mirrors every write to both nodes in real time, so either node can take over if the other fails. On RHEL 8, DRBD is […]
Disk encryption is a critical layer of defense-in-depth for any Linux server handling sensitive data. LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) is the standard on-disk format for Linux disk encryption, and cryptsetup is the user-space tool that manages it. On RHEL 8, LUKS2 is the default format, bringing improved metadata handling, larger headers, and support for […]
IPv6 adoption has accelerated significantly as IPv4 address exhaustion becomes more acute, and most modern Linux distributions including RHEL 8 ship with full IPv6 support enabled by default. Configuring IPv6 on RHEL 8 requires working with nmcli for network interface configuration, firewalld for controlling IPv6 traffic including ICMPv6, and optionally adjusting service configurations to bind […]
Ceph is a unified, distributed storage system that simultaneously provides object, block, and file storage on commodity hardware. It eliminates single points of failure through replication and erasure coding, and scales linearly by adding nodes. The cephadm tool, introduced in Ceph Octopus, simplifies cluster deployment by using containers (Podman on RHEL 8) to manage Ceph […]
MinIO is a high-performance, S3-compatible object storage server designed to run on commodity hardware. It supports the full Amazon S3 API, making it a drop-in replacement for cloud object storage in private and hybrid environments. On RHEL 8, MinIO runs as a single binary with minimal dependencies, and its systemd integration makes it straightforward to […]
GlusterFS is an open-source, scale-out network-attached storage filesystem that aggregates storage from multiple servers into a single, unified namespace. It supports replication, distribution, and striping, making it suitable for workloads that require high availability or large aggregate capacity without specialized hardware. On RHEL 8, GlusterFS packages are available through the CentOS Storage SIG repository, allowing […]
iSCSI (Internet Small Computer Systems Interface) allows you to share block storage devices over a standard TCP/IP network, making it a cost-effective alternative to dedicated Fibre Channel SANs. On RHEL 8, the targetcli package provides a powerful interactive shell for configuring iSCSI targets, while iscsi-initiator-utils handles the client side. This tutorial walks through setting up […]
Email authentication standards — SPF, DKIM, and DMARC — are the primary tools used by receiving mail servers to verify that messages claiming to come from your domain actually originate from your authorized infrastructure. Without them, your outbound mail is far more likely to land in spam folders or be rejected outright. On RHEL 8, […]
Dovecot is a high-performance, secure IMAP and POP3 server that works seamlessly alongside Postfix to deliver a complete mail server stack on RHEL 8. While Postfix handles sending and receiving mail via SMTP, Dovecot allows mail clients like Thunderbird or Outlook to retrieve messages using IMAP or POP3. Dovecot is also SELinux-aware and actively maintained, […]
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