PXE (Preboot eXecution Environment) boot lets you install an operating system over the network without a physical USB drive or DVD. On RHEL 8 this capability is built from three cooperating services: a DHCP server that hands out IP addresses and points new clients to the boot server, a TFTP server that delivers the initial […]
Prometheus has become the de-facto standard for metrics collection in Linux environments, but it is not the only option. VictoriaMetrics is a high-performance, cost-efficient time-series database that is fully compatible with PromQL, accepts Prometheus remote_write, and offers significant advantages in storage compression, ingestion throughput, and memory usage. A single-node VictoriaMetrics binary can replace or complement […]
FreeIPA is Red Hat’s integrated identity management solution that bundles LDAP (389 Directory Server), Kerberos, DNS, NTP, and a certificate authority into a single coherent platform. It is the upstream project for Red Hat Identity Management (IdM) and is fully supported on RHEL 8. FreeIPA dramatically simplifies managing users, groups, hosts, and policies across a […]
Apache HTTP Server (httpd) is one of the most widely deployed web servers in the world and is fully supported on RHEL 8 through the AppStream repository. After installing the httpd package, you will configure the firewall, review the main configuration file, and serve content from a custom document root. This tutorial covers everything you […]
How to Configure DRBD for High-Availability Storage on RHEL 7 Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD) is a Linux kernel module and set of user-space utilities that provide synchronous block-level replication between two servers over a network. It is often described as a network-based RAID-1 and is widely used as the storage layer in high-availability clusters […]
Rootkits are malicious software packages designed to gain persistent, hidden root-level access to a system by replacing or patching critical binaries, kernel modules, or configuration files. Two widely used open-source tools — rkhunter (Rootkit Hunter) and chkrootkit — complement each other by using different detection techniques: signature databases, hash comparisons, and behavioural checks. On RHEL […]
How to Use Python Virtual Environments on RHEL 7 When you install Python packages system-wide with pip3, every project on the server shares the same set of libraries. This creates an immediate problem: Project A requires Flask 1.1 while Project B requires Flask 2.3, and only one version can occupy the global site-packages directory at […]
How to Configure Nginx FastCGI Caching on RHEL 7 FastCGI caching in Nginx allows you to store responses from your PHP backend — typically PHP-FPM — directly on disk or in memory, serving subsequent identical requests without re-executing PHP. On a busy RHEL 7 server this can reduce backend load by an order of magnitude, […]
How to Configure MySQL Group Replication on RHEL 7 MySQL Group Replication, introduced in MySQL 5.7.17, is a plugin-based high-availability mechanism that enables a set of MySQL servers to form a replication group where all writes are coordinated through a distributed consensus algorithm (Paxos-based). Unlike classic primary-replica replication, Group Replication provides built-in automatic failover: if […]
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 […]
