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How to Install and Configure RabbitMQ on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure RabbitMQ on RHEL 9

RabbitMQ is a mature, battle-tested open-source message broker that implements the AMQP 0-9-1 protocol. It decouples application components by enabling asynchronous communication through exchanges, queues, and bindings. Producers publish messages to exchanges; exchanges route messages to queues based on routing rules (direct, topic, fanout, headers); consumers subscribe to queues and process messages independently of the […]

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How to Monitor MySQL with Prometheus mysqld_exporter on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Monitor MySQL with Prometheus mysqld_exporter on RHEL 9

MySQL’s built-in metrics are powerful but not easily scraped. Prometheus mysqld_exporter is the standard exporter that translates MySQL status variables, InnoDB engine metrics, and replication lag statistics into the Prometheus exposition format. Combined with Grafana, the mysqld_exporter provides real-time dashboards covering query throughput, connection pool usage, InnoDB buffer pool hit rates, disk I/O, and replication […]

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How to Install and Configure Memcached on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure Memcached on RHEL 9

Memcached is a high-performance, distributed in-memory key-value cache designed specifically for caching database query results, session data, and computed values. Unlike Redis, Memcached is deliberately simple — it does not support persistence, replication, or complex data types. This simplicity makes Memcached extremely fast and memory-efficient: it uses a slab allocator to eliminate memory fragmentation and […]

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How to Configure Redis Cluster and Sentinel on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Redis Cluster and Sentinel on RHEL 9

A single Redis instance has two failure modes: if the server goes down, all cached data is lost and every request hits the origin database; and if the dataset grows beyond a single server’s RAM, there’s no built-in way to distribute it. Redis provides two solutions: Redis Sentinel for high availability (automatic failover with a […]

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How to Install Elasticsearch 8 on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Elasticsearch 8 on RHEL 9

Elasticsearch is a distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine built on Apache Lucene. It stores data as JSON documents in indices and provides near-real-time full-text search, log aggregation, metrics analysis, and complex aggregation queries through a simple HTTP/JSON API. Elasticsearch is the core component of the Elastic Stack (ELK Stack) — Elasticsearch stores and searches […]

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How to Install and Configure SQLite on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure SQLite on RHEL 9

SQLite is a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration SQL database engine that stores an entire database in a single file on disk. Unlike MySQL, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB which require a running server process, SQLite is a library that is linked directly into the application — there is no network connection, no authentication, and no administration overhead. SQLite […]

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How to Set Up PostgreSQL Streaming Replication on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up PostgreSQL Streaming Replication on RHEL 9

PostgreSQL Streaming Replication sends WAL (Write-Ahead Log) records from a primary server to one or more standby servers in near-real-time, keeping standbys continuously synchronised with the primary. This provides high availability (automatic or manual failover when the primary fails), read scaling (queries can be distributed to hot standbys), and geographic redundancy. Unlike logical replication which […]

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How to Configure PostgreSQL Remote Access and SSL on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure PostgreSQL Remote Access and SSL on RHEL 9

By default, PostgreSQL only accepts connections from localhost using peer or ident authentication. Enabling remote access requires two configuration changes: editing postgresql.conf to listen on a network interface, and editing pg_hba.conf to permit remote connections from specific hosts or subnets. Beyond network access, encrypting the connection with SSL/TLS is essential for any deployment where database […]

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How to Secure MySQL: Remove Root Remote Login, audit_log on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Secure MySQL: Remove Root Remote Login, audit_log on RHEL 9

A default MySQL installation has several security weaknesses: a root account that may be accessible remotely, anonymous user accounts, a test database anyone can access, and no audit logging of who accessed what data. Securing MySQL is essential before any production deployment and covers four main areas: access control (who can connect from where), authentication […]

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How to Install phpMyAdmin on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install phpMyAdmin on RHEL 9

phpMyAdmin is a web-based graphical administration interface for MySQL and MariaDB databases. It allows developers and DBAs to manage databases, tables, rows, users, and permissions through a browser without needing to use the command-line MySQL client. phpMyAdmin is especially useful for non-technical users who need to browse data, run queries, import/export CSV or SQL files, […]

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