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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 Install pgAdmin 4 on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install pgAdmin 4 on RHEL 9

pgAdmin 4 is the official, full-featured web-based administration and development platform for PostgreSQL. It provides a graphical interface for managing databases, schemas, tables, views, functions, roles, and server connections; a SQL query editor with syntax highlighting and query execution plans; a visual schema designer; backup and restore wizards; and monitoring dashboards for server statistics. pgAdmin […]

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How to Configure MySQL Group Replication on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Configure MySQL Group Replication on RHEL 9

MySQL Group Replication extends traditional primary-replica replication with a built-in, distributed consensus protocol (Paxos-based) that provides automatic failover, multi-primary writes, and conflict detection. Unlike standard replication where a manual intervention is needed to promote a replica to primary, Group Replication automatically elects a new primary if the current primary fails — making it the foundation […]

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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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How to Install Redis 7 on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Redis 7 on RHEL 9

Redis (Remote Dictionary Server) is an in-memory data structure store used as a cache, session store, real-time leaderboard, pub/sub message broker, and rate-limiting backend. Redis stores all data in RAM with optional disk persistence, making it orders of magnitude faster than relational databases for lookups: sub-millisecond response times at millions of operations per second. Common […]

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How to Monitor Nginx with Prometheus nginx-exporter on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Monitor Nginx with Prometheus nginx-exporter on RHEL 9

Prometheus is a time-series metrics collection and alerting system widely used for monitoring cloud infrastructure and web servers. The nginx-prometheus-exporter (nginx-exporter) is a lightweight Go binary that reads Nginx’s built-in stub_status page and exposes the metrics in Prometheus format — active connections, total requests, connection states (reading, writing, waiting), and request rate. Combined with Grafana […]

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How to Harden Nginx: Security Headers, TLS 1.3, OCSP Stapling on RHEL 9 — step-by-step RHEL 9 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Harden Nginx: Security Headers, TLS 1.3, OCSP Stapling on RHEL 9

A default Nginx installation serves content, but many security hardening steps are not enabled by default. Hardening Nginx means configuring HTTP security headers to prevent XSS, clickjacking, and MIME sniffing attacks; enforcing TLS 1.3 and strong cipher suites to eliminate outdated protocol vulnerabilities; enabling OCSP Stapling so clients can verify certificate validity without a round-trip […]

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