How to Set Up ZFS on RHEL 7 ZFS (Zettabyte File System) originated at Sun Microsystems and is widely regarded as the most feature-rich and reliable open-source file system available. It combines volume management, RAID, checksumming, copy-on-write snapshots, deduplication, and transparent compression into a single unified stack. The ZFS on Linux (ZoL) project brings these […]
How to Set Up PostgreSQL Streaming Replication on RHEL 7 PostgreSQL streaming replication allows a standby server to continuously receive and apply WAL (Write-Ahead Log) records from a primary server in near real time, maintaining an up-to-date hot standby copy of the database. This is the foundation of high availability and read scaling strategies in […]
Login banners are a critical security control that display legal warnings before and after users authenticate to a system. On RHEL 8, three separate mechanisms control banner messages: /etc/issue for local console pre-login text, /etc/issue.net for SSH pre-login banners, and /etc/motd for the message of the day shown after login. Properly configured banners inform authorized […]
Running out of disk space is one of the most disruptive events on a Linux server, and it often happens silently until a service crashes or a write fails. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 ships with several tools to help you stay ahead of the problem: df for a quick filesystem overview, du for directory-level […]
How to Configure Infrastructure as Code with Pulumi on RHEL 7 Infrastructure as Code (IaC) transforms manual cloud provisioning into version-controlled, repeatable programs. While tools like Terraform use a domain-specific language, Pulumi takes a different approach: you write infrastructure definitions in real general-purpose languages — Python, TypeScript, Go, or C# — giving you the full […]
Zabbix is a mature, enterprise-grade open-source monitoring platform capable of tracking availability, performance, and log data for thousands of hosts from a single server. It ships with auto-discovery, customizable triggers, rich alerting integrations, and a polished web interface. Installing Zabbix 6.x on RHEL 8 takes roughly thirty minutes and gives you production-ready monitoring backed by […]
Alertmanager handles alert routing, deduplication, and notification dispatch for Prometheus. By integrating it with Slack and PagerDuty, your team receives real-time notifications through familiar channels while on-call engineers get paged for critical incidents. This tutorial walks through installing Alertmanager on RHEL 8, configuring receivers for both platforms, setting up routing logic, and verifying the setup […]
