How to Install and Configure SonarQube on RHEL 7 SonarQube is an open-source platform for continuous code quality inspection and static analysis. It detects bugs, vulnerabilities, code smells, and security hotspots across dozens of programming languages, integrating naturally into CI/CD pipelines to enforce quality gates before code reaches production. On RHEL 7, setting up SonarQube […]
Log files grow indefinitely unless something rotates and prunes them, which will eventually fill a disk and crash your services. On RHEL 8, logrotate is installed by default and handles rotation for most system logs out of the box via a systemd timer. For application logs your team manages, you need to write a custom […]
How to Scan for Vulnerabilities with OpenVAS on RHEL 7 OpenVAS (Open Vulnerability Assessment System), now part of the Greenbone Vulnerability Management (GVM) framework, is one of the most capable open-source vulnerability scanners available. It maintains a continuously updated feed of over 50,000 Network Vulnerability Tests (NVTs) and can detect misconfigurations, outdated software, missing patches, […]
How to Configure a Static IP Address with NetworkManager on RHEL 7 Configuring a static IP address is one of the most fundamental tasks for any Linux system administrator. On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, NetworkManager is the default network management daemon, and it provides two powerful tools for managing connections: the command-line interface nmcli […]
How to Use tmux for Terminal Multiplexing on RHEL 7 Every Linux administrator has experienced the frustration of losing a long-running process because an SSH connection dropped. tmux (terminal multiplexer) solves this problem by running your terminal sessions inside a persistent server process that survives disconnections. Beyond persistence, tmux allows you to split a single […]
How to Install Certbot and Automate Let’s Encrypt Renewals on RHEL 7 Securing your web server with a trusted TLS certificate is no longer optional — it is a baseline requirement for any production site. Let’s Encrypt provides free, automated, and domain-validated certificates, and Certbot is the official command-line client that manages the entire lifecycle: […]
How to Configure Chrony as a Time Server on RHEL 7 Accurate system time is foundational to almost every enterprise workload. Kerberos authentication, TLS certificate validation, log correlation, and database replication all depend on clocks that stay in sync. While ntpd has served Linux administrators for decades, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ships Chrony as […]
How to Configure Nginx with ModSecurity WAF on RHEL 7 While ModSecurity is most commonly associated with Apache, it also runs as a dynamic module for Nginx through the ModSecurity-nginx connector. On RHEL 7, the official Nginx packages do not ship with ModSecurity built in, so you have two practical paths: compile Nginx and ModSecurity […]
Go (also called Golang) is a statically typed, compiled language designed for simplicity and performance, making it an excellent choice for building web services, CLI tools, and DevOps utilities on Linux servers. Unlike interpreted runtimes, Go compiles to a single self-contained binary with no external dependencies, which simplifies deployment significantly. In this tutorial you will […]
Docker is not available in RHEL 8’s default AppStream repositories, so installing it requires adding the official Docker CE repository from Docker’s own package server. Unlike earlier RHEL versions, RHEL 8 ships with Podman as its native container runtime, but Docker CE remains a popular choice for teams migrating existing workflows. This tutorial walks through […]
