RHEL 8

How to Set Up Vagrant and VirtualBox on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Vagrant and VirtualBox on RHEL 8

Vagrant is a command-line tool for building and managing reproducible virtual machine environments, and when paired with VirtualBox it gives developers a fast, portable way to spin up isolated Linux VMs on a RHEL 8 host. Using a declarative Vagrantfile, you can define the base box, network settings, shared folders, and provisioning scripts so that […]

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How to Install Nexus Repository Manager on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install Nexus Repository Manager on RHEL 8

Nexus Repository Manager by Sonatype is a universal artifact repository that proxies public registries, hosts private packages, and groups repositories behind a single URL for Maven, npm, PyPI, Docker, and many other formats. Installing it on RHEL 8 gives your CI/CD pipeline a central artifact store that reduces external network calls and enforces governance over […]

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How to Install and Configure SonarQube on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Configure SonarQube on RHEL 8

SonarQube is an open-source static analysis platform that inspects code quality, detects bugs, security vulnerabilities, and code smells across more than thirty programming languages. On RHEL 8, SonarQube requires a Java 17 runtime, a PostgreSQL database for persistent storage, and several Linux kernel tuning parameters to run reliably. This tutorial guides you through every installation […]

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How to Set Up ArgoCD for GitOps on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up ArgoCD for GitOps on RHEL 8

ArgoCD implements the GitOps pattern for Kubernetes by continuously reconciling the live state of your cluster with manifests stored in a Git repository. Running on RHEL 8, you interact with ArgoCD through its CLI, its web UI, or both, while a controller inside the cluster watches for drift and can automatically correct it. This tutorial […]

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How to Install and Use Helm for Kubernetes Package Management on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Install and Use Helm for Kubernetes Package Management on RHEL 8

Helm is the de facto package manager for Kubernetes, allowing you to define, install, and upgrade complex applications using reusable chart packages. On RHEL 8, Helm integrates cleanly with an existing kubectl configuration, making it straightforward to deploy and manage workloads across your cluster. This tutorial walks you through installing Helm, working with chart repositories, […]

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How to Register a GitHub Actions Self-Hosted Runner on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Register a GitHub Actions Self-Hosted Runner on RHEL 8

GitHub Actions self-hosted runners allow you to execute CI/CD workflows on your own hardware, giving you full control over the operating system, installed tooling, network access, and resource allocation. On RHEL 8 this is especially valuable for pipelines that must access internal systems, use licensed software, or run workloads that exceed GitHub’s hosted-runner resource limits. […]

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How to Use Terraform to Provision Infrastructure on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Use Terraform to Provision Infrastructure on RHEL 8

With Terraform installed on RHEL 8, the next step is writing real-world HCL configurations that provision cloud infrastructure. HashiCorp Configuration Language 2 (HCL2) provides a clean, human-readable syntax for defining providers, resources, variables, and outputs that can be version-controlled alongside your application code. This tutorial walks through provisioning an AWS EC2 instance — covering input […]

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

How to Install Terraform on RHEL 8

Terraform by HashiCorp is the industry-standard tool for provisioning and managing infrastructure as code (IaC) across cloud providers, on-premises platforms, and SaaS APIs. On RHEL 8 you can install Terraform directly from the official HashiCorp RPM repository, keeping it up to date through the standard dnf package manager. This tutorial walks through adding the HashiCorp […]

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How to Write Ansible Playbooks for Server Automation on RHEL 8 — step-by-step RHEL 8 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Write Ansible Playbooks for Server Automation on RHEL 8

Once you have Ansible installed and your inventory configured, playbooks are the primary way to describe and enforce the desired state of your infrastructure. A playbook is a YAML file that groups one or more plays, each targeting a set of hosts and executing an ordered list of tasks. This tutorial covers playbook anatomy, the […]

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

How to Install Ansible on RHEL 8

Ansible is the leading open-source automation engine for configuration management, application deployment, and orchestration. On RHEL 8, you can install Ansible from the Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux (EPEL) repository or directly via pip3, giving you flexibility depending on your environment. This tutorial walks through both installation methods, basic inventory configuration, and running your first […]

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