How to Deploy a Spring Boot Application on RHEL 7 Spring Boot has become the de facto standard for building production-ready Java microservices and web applications. Its embedded server model — packaging the entire application, including Tomcat or Jetty, into a single executable JAR — greatly simplifies deployment on Linux servers. Instead of managing a […]
PM2 is a production-grade process manager for Node.js applications that handles automatic restarts on crashes, log aggregation, clustering, and startup script generation for Linux init systems including systemd. Unlike running Node.js directly with node app.js, PM2 keeps your application alive across failures and server reboots without writing custom systemd unit files for every project. On […]
OpenVPN is a mature, battle-tested VPN solution that uses TLS for control-channel encryption and supports both UDP and TCP transports, making it highly adaptable to restrictive network environments. On RHEL 8 it is available from the EPEL repository, and the Easy-RSA toolkit simplifies the PKI management needed to issue server and client certificates. This guide […]
The Kubernetes Dashboard is a web-based UI that gives cluster operators a visual overview of workloads, services, namespaces, and resource utilization without dropping into kubectl for every task. On RHEL 8 with a running Kubernetes cluster, deploying the dashboard takes only a few kubectl commands. This tutorial covers installation, creating a service account with the […]
How to Install Podman as a Rootless Docker Alternative on RHEL 7 Podman is a daemonless, rootless container engine developed by Red Hat that is fully compatible with the OCI (Open Container Initiative) standard and largely compatible with the Docker CLI. Unlike Docker, Podman does not require a long-running background daemon running as root, which […]
Packer, created by HashiCorp, is an open-source tool that automates the creation of identical machine images for multiple platforms from a single source configuration. Whether you need an AWS AMI, a QEMU disk image for local testing, or a VMware template, Packer lets you define the entire build in code using HCL2 templates. In this […]
Logrotate is the standard log rotation utility on RHEL 8, responsible for automatically compressing, archiving, and pruning log files before they consume excessive disk space. Without it, long-running applications like NGINX, custom services, and Java applications can silently fill a filesystem partition and cause outages. Logrotate ships with RHEL 8 and is already configured for […]
MongoDB is a leading document-oriented NoSQL database that stores data in flexible JSON-like BSON documents, making it well-suited for applications with evolving schemas, hierarchical data, or high-throughput write workloads. MongoDB is not included in the RHEL 8 AppStream, so you must add the official MongoDB repository before installing. This guide walks through creating the MongoDB […]
How to Install .NET SDK and Runtime on RHEL 7 The .NET platform from Microsoft is an open-source, cross-platform framework for building modern web applications, APIs, command-line tools, microservices, and more. Since .NET Core 3.x and the subsequent unified .NET 5+ releases, Linux has been a first-class deployment target — and Red Hat Enterprise Linux […]
The Linux Audit Framework, managed by the auditd daemon, provides a comprehensive kernel-level mechanism for tracking security-relevant events on RHEL 7. Unlike application-level logging, the audit subsystem operates below the application layer, meaning that even a compromised process cannot suppress its own audit trail without also compromising the kernel. Properly configured, auditd records file access, […]
