HTTP/2 delivers significant performance improvements over HTTP/1.1 through features such as header compression, request multiplexing, and server push — all over a single TCP connection. Nginx has supported HTTP/2 since version 1.9.5, and on RHEL 8 the AppStream version of Nginx is compiled with the necessary OpenSSL support to enable it. Because browsers only implement […]
How to Install Apache HTTP Server on RHEL 7 Apache HTTP Server is one of the most widely deployed web servers in the world, powering millions of websites and applications. On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, Apache (referred to in the package system as httpd) is available directly from the default RHEL repositories, making installation […]
Nginx access logs contain a wealth of information about who is visiting your site, which URLs are being requested, what errors users encounter, and where your traffic originates. Raw log files are difficult to interpret at a glance, but GoAccess transforms them into actionable, visually rich reports in seconds — either in the terminal for […]
Podman pods allow you to run multiple containers that share the same network namespace, mirroring the Kubernetes pod model without requiring a container orchestrator. On RHEL 8, Podman is available in the default AppStream repositories and provides native rootless pod support out of the box. This tutorial covers creating and managing pods, running multi-container workloads […]
Reliable name resolution is essential for almost every networked service on a Linux server. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 gives you several places to configure how hostnames are resolved: the static /etc/hosts file, the resolver configuration in /etc/resolv.conf, the look-up order defined in /etc/nsswitch.conf, and DNS settings managed through NetworkManager. Knowing how these layers interact […]
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 […]
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 […]
cAdvisor (Container Advisor) is an open-source daemon from Google that collects, aggregates, and exports real-time resource usage and performance metrics for every running container on a host. Unlike Node Exporter, which reports host-level statistics, cAdvisor descends into cgroup hierarchies to expose per-container CPU, memory, network, and filesystem metrics in Prometheus format. On RHEL 8 with […]
How to Deploy a Ruby on Rails Application on RHEL 7 Ruby on Rails is a full-featured web application framework that follows the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern and emphasizes convention over configuration. Deploying a Rails application on RHEL 7 in a production-grade configuration requires several components working together: Rails itself running under Puma (a multi-threaded Ruby […]
How to Install and Configure Caddy Web Server on RHEL 7 Caddy is a modern, open-source web server written in Go that sets itself apart from traditional servers like Apache and Nginx through its automatic HTTPS provisioning, minimal configuration syntax, and zero-dependency binary distribution. On RHEL 7, where the standard repositories do not include Caddy, […]
