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How to Install Perl and CPAN Modules on Debian 9 — step-by-step Debian 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Perl and CPAN Modules on Debian 9

Introduction How to Install Perl and CPAN Modules on Debian 9 is a fundamental operation for any administrator maintaining a Debian 9 Stretch server. Debian 9 Stretch ships with the Linux 6.12 kernel, updated toolchains, and a fully refreshed package archive — meaning version numbers, configuration file paths, and some dependency chains differ from Debian […]

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How to Set Up a Ceph Storage Cluster on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up a Ceph Storage Cluster on RHEL 8

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 […]

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How to Install and Configure cAdvisor for Container Monitoring on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure cAdvisor for Container Monitoring on RHEL 8

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 […]

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How to Install and Configure Tomcat 8 on Debian 9 — step-by-step Debian 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure Tomcat 8 on Debian 9

Introduction Deploying install and configure tomcat 8 on debian 9 on a Debian 9 Stretch machine is straightforward thanks to Debian’s policy-compliant packaging. Unlike rpm-based distributions, Debian stores configuration helpers in /etc/default/, uses update-rc.d for older init scripts, and provides dpkg-reconfigure for interactive package configuration. This tutorial stays on the systemd path throughout. Prerequisites Ensure […]

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How to Set Up K3s Lightweight Kubernetes on SLES 12 — step-by-step SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up K3s Lightweight Kubernetes on SLES 12

Introduction This tutorial covers How to Set Up K3s Lightweight Kubernetes on SLES 12 on SLES 12. SLES 12 (SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16) is SUSE’s enterprise-grade Linux distribution. It uses the zypper package manager, AppArmor for mandatory access control, and systemctl for service management. Step 1 — Disable Swap swapoff -a sed -i ‘/ […]

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How to Install SQLite3 on Debian 9 — step-by-step Debian 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install SQLite3 on Debian 9

Introduction Debian 9 Stretch is built around the ethos of stability and free software. Setting up install sqlite3 on debian 9 on Stretch leverages the same proven Debian packaging system that powers millions of servers worldwide, while benefiting from the latest upstream releases included in the Stretch freeze. Follow each step carefully and the resulting […]

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How to Monitor Windows Server with Prometheus and Grafana on Windows Server 2019 — step-by-step Windows Server 2019 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Monitor Windows Server with Prometheus and Grafana on Windows Server 2019

Introduction to Prometheus and Grafana Monitoring on Windows Server 2019 Prometheus is an open-source time-series monitoring system originally developed at SoundCloud, now a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project. It collects metrics by scraping HTTP endpoints exposed by exporters on monitored systems. Grafana is a visualization and dashboarding platform that queries Prometheus (and many other […]

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How to Configure Kubernetes Persistent Volumes and Storage Classes on RHEL 7 — step-by-step RHEL 7 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Kubernetes Persistent Volumes and Storage Classes on RHEL 7

How to Configure Kubernetes Persistent Volumes and Storage Classes on RHEL 7 By default, storage inside a Kubernetes Pod is ephemeral — when a Pod restarts or is rescheduled, all data written to the container filesystem is lost. For applications like databases, file servers, and message queues that require durable storage, Kubernetes provides a storage […]

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How to Install and Configure BIND9 DNS Server on Debian 9 — step-by-step Debian 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure BIND9 DNS Server on Debian 9

Introduction Debian 9 Stretch is built around the ethos of stability and free software. Setting up install and configure bind9 dns server on debian 9 on Stretch leverages the same proven Debian packaging system that powers millions of servers worldwide, while benefiting from the latest upstream releases included in the Stretch freeze. Follow each step […]

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How to Configure Nginx Server Blocks on Debian 9 — step-by-step Debian 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Nginx Server Blocks on Debian 9

Introduction Debian 9 Stretch is built around the ethos of stability and free software. Setting up configure nginx server blocks on debian 9 on Stretch leverages the same proven Debian packaging system that powers millions of servers worldwide, while benefiting from the latest upstream releases included in the Stretch freeze. Follow each step carefully and […]

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