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How to Set Up a Git Server with Gitea on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up a Git Server with Gitea on RHEL 9

Gitea is a lightweight, self-hosted Git service written in Go that provides GitHub-like functionality (repositories, issues, pull requests, wikis, webhooks, and CI/CD via Gitea Actions) in a single binary consuming under 100 MB of RAM. Compared to GitLab CE (which requires 4–8 GB RAM and a complex Omnibus bundle), Gitea is ideal for small teams, […]

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How to Configure Storage Spaces on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Storage Spaces on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Configure Storage Spaces on Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage Spaces is a software-defined storage technology introduced with Windows Server 2012 and significantly enhanced in Windows Server 2012 R2. It allows administrators to group physical disk drives of varying types and sizes into a storage pool, then carve virtual disks — called storage spaces […]

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How to Set Up a Kubernetes Dashboard on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up a Kubernetes Dashboard on RHEL 9

The Kubernetes Dashboard is a general-purpose, web-based UI for Kubernetes clusters that allows users to manage applications, inspect cluster resources, view logs, and troubleshoot issues without using the kubectl CLI. It provides a visual overview of all workloads in the cluster — deployments, pods, services, ingress rules, storage, and RBAC configuration — making it accessible […]

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How to Configure Scheduled Task-Based Backup Scripts on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Scheduled Task-Based Backup Scripts on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Configure Scheduled Task-Based Backup Scripts on Windows Server 2012 R2 While Windows Server Backup provides a built-in GUI-based backup solution, many enterprise environments require custom backup scripts that handle specific scenarios not covered by WSB — such as application-specific export procedures, database dumps, configuration file backups, scripted verification of backup completeness, and integration […]

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How to Install and Use Skopeo for Container Image Management on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Use Skopeo for Container Image Management on RHEL 9

Skopeo is a command-line tool for working with container images and container image registries without requiring a running container daemon or root privileges. While Docker requires docker pull to download an image locally before inspecting or copying it, Skopeo can copy images directly between registries, inspect image metadata without downloading the full image, and sign/verify […]

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How to Set Up SQL Server Monitoring on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up SQL Server Monitoring on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Set Up SQL Server Monitoring on Windows Server 2012 R2 Monitoring SQL Server on Windows Server 2012 R2 requires a multi-layered approach that covers both OS-level performance (CPU, memory, disk I/O) and SQL Server-specific metrics (wait statistics, query performance, blocking, index fragmentation, database file sizes, and backup status). This guide covers setting up […]

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How to Use Robocopy for Scheduled File Backups on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use Robocopy for Scheduled File Backups on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Use Robocopy for Scheduled File Backups on Windows Server 2012 R2 Robocopy (Robust File Copy) is a command-line file copy tool built into Windows Server 2012 R2 that provides significantly more functionality than standard copy or xcopy commands. Its combination of multi-threaded operation, mirror mode, restart capability, file attribute preservation, and detailed logging […]

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How to Install containerd as a Container Runtime on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install containerd as a Container Runtime on RHEL 9

containerd is a high-performance, industry-standard container runtime that implements the Open Container Initiative (OCI) specification. While Docker uses containerd internally as its core container lifecycle manager, containerd can also run standalone as a Kubernetes container runtime — this is the default runtime for most managed Kubernetes services (EKS, GKE, AKS) and the recommended runtime for […]

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How to Harden SMB and File Sharing on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Harden SMB and File Sharing on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Harden SMB and File Sharing on Windows Server 2012 R2 Server Message Block (SMB) is the protocol behind Windows file sharing, named pipes, and printer sharing—and it has been a primary target for attackers for decades. From EternalBlue (MS17-010) to NTLM relay attacks, SMB vulnerabilities have enabled some of the most devastating network […]

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