How to Configure HAProxy for HTTP and TCP Load Balancing on RHEL 7 HAProxy is one of the most widely deployed open-source load balancers in production infrastructure, renowned for its high throughput, low latency, and fine-grained configurability. On RHEL 7 it is available directly from the base repositories and integrates cleanly with systemctl and firewalld. […]
How to Configure Docker Networking on RHEL 7 Docker provides a powerful networking model that allows containers to communicate with each other, with the host, and with the outside world in a secure and configurable way. Out of the box, Docker creates a default bridge network and manages its own iptables rules to control traffic […]
Prometheus is a widely adopted open-source monitoring system that collects time-series metrics by scraping HTTP endpoints. Nginx does not expose Prometheus-format metrics natively, but the official nginx-prometheus-exporter bridges the gap by reading Nginx’s built-in stub status page and converting it into a format Prometheus understands. This tutorial shows how to enable the stub status module […]
How to Install Symfony on RHEL 7 Symfony is a mature, enterprise-grade PHP framework built around reusable components that power projects ranging from small APIs to large-scale e-commerce platforms. Many PHP projects, including Drupal, Laravel, and Magento, depend directly on Symfony components. Installing Symfony on RHEL 7 follows a similar pattern to other PHP frameworks: […]
How to Use Docker Secrets and Environment Variables Securely on RHEL 7 One of the most common security mistakes in containerised deployments is embedding sensitive values — database passwords, API keys, TLS certificates — directly inside Dockerfiles or baking them into image layers. Because Docker images are built as a stack of read-only layers, anything […]
How to Manage Docker Images and Containers on RHEL 7 Effective day-to-day use of Docker requires a solid command of image and container management. Images are the read-only blueprints from which containers are created; containers are the running (or stopped) instances of those images. Over time, a Docker host accumulates pulled images, stopped containers, dangling […]
Swap space gives the Linux kernel an overflow area on disk when physical RAM is fully utilized, preventing out-of-memory crashes on memory-constrained servers. On RHEL 8, swap can be implemented as a dedicated partition or as a swap file — the latter being more flexible since it can be created, resized, and removed without repartitioning […]
A LAMP stack — Linux, Apache, MariaDB, and PHP — is one of the most widely deployed web server configurations in enterprise environments. RHEL 8 ships with the tools needed to install and configure each component using dnf and its module system. This tutorial walks you through installing and securing a fully functional LAMP stack […]
Lynis is a battle-tested open-source security auditing tool that scans your Linux system, identifies misconfigurations, and produces a prioritised list of hardening suggestions. On RHEL 8, it is available through the EPEL 8 repository and runs entirely from the command line without requiring a daemon or persistent service. After each scan, Lynis assigns a hardening […]
How to Configure Nginx Load Balancing on RHEL 7 As web applications grow in traffic, a single backend server eventually becomes a bottleneck. Nginx’s upstream module provides built-in load balancing that distributes incoming requests across multiple backend servers, improving throughput, redundancy, and fault tolerance. Unlike Nginx Plus, the open-source version included in RHEL 7’s EPEL […]
