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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 Distributed File System (DFS) on Windows Server 2012 R2 — step-by-step Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Distributed File System (DFS) on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Configure Distributed File System (DFS) on Windows Server 2012 R2 The Distributed File System (DFS) in Windows Server 2012 R2 consists of two complementary technologies: DFS Namespaces and DFS Replication. DFS Namespaces allows administrators to create a unified, hierarchical view of shared folders located on multiple servers across an organization, presenting them under […]

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

How to Set Up iSCSI Target Server on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Set Up iSCSI Target Server on Windows Server 2012 R2 iSCSI (Internet Small Computer Systems Interface) is a storage networking protocol that enables block-level storage access over a standard TCP/IP network. Windows Server 2012 R2 includes a built-in iSCSI Target Server role service that allows you to create and manage iSCSI targets — […]

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

How to Install GitLab CE on RHEL 9

GitLab Community Edition (CE) is a complete, self-hosted DevOps platform that combines Git repository hosting, issue tracking, CI/CD pipelines, container registry, and code review in a single application. Hosting GitLab internally gives organisations full control over their source code without relying on third-party services, making it the preferred choice for teams with data sovereignty requirements […]

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

How to Install Jenkins on RHEL 9

Jenkins is the most widely adopted open-source CI/CD automation server, used to build, test, and deploy software across thousands of organisations. It provides a large plugin ecosystem (1,800+ plugins) for integrating with virtually every version control system, build tool, test framework, and deployment target. Jenkins on RHEL 9 is typically deployed as a system service […]

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How to Set Up Centralised Log Collection with Windows Event Collector on Windows Server 2012 R2 — Windows Server 2012 R2 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Centralised Log Collection with Windows Event Collector on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Set Up Centralised Log Collection with Windows Event Collector on Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows Event Collector (WEC) is a built-in Windows Server 2012 R2 service that enables centralised collection of Windows event log entries from multiple source computers into a single collector server. This eliminates the need to log into each individual […]

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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 Docker Daemon TLS Encryption on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure Docker Daemon TLS Encryption on RHEL 9

By default, the Docker daemon socket (/var/run/docker.sock) is a Unix socket accessible only locally. When the Docker daemon needs to be accessible over the network — for remote Docker management, CI/CD pipelines connecting to a remote build host, or Docker Swarm cluster communication — TLS encryption must be configured to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks and unauthorised […]

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

How to Set Up Uptime Monitoring with PRTG on Windows Server 2012 R2

How to Set Up Uptime Monitoring with PRTG on Windows Server 2012 R2 PRTG Network Monitor by Paessler is a widely deployed network and infrastructure monitoring platform that provides comprehensive uptime monitoring, performance metrics, and alerting for Windows Server 2012 R2 environments. PRTG uses a combination of ping checks, WMI queries, SNMP polling, and the […]

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