Rocky Linux

How To Install Suricata on Rocky Linux 8 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install Suricata on Rocky Linux 8

Suricata is a Network Security Monitoring (NSM) tool that uses sets of community created and user defined signatures (also referred to as rules) to examine and process network traffic. In this tutorial you will learn how to install Suricata, and how to customize some of its default settings on Rocky Linux 8 to suit your needs.

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How to Set Up Squid Proxy for Private Connections on Rocky Linux 8 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Squid Proxy for Private Connections on Rocky Linux 8

Proxy servers are a useful way of caching or obfuscating web traffic. This means that web requests can be served from different inbound or outbound addresses than they appear to be, by offloading the connection to intermediaries. For regular end users, this usually means allowing you to make web requests from a different IP address than your own. In this tutorial, you will be installing and configuring Squid to support a number of popular proxy protocols on a Rocky Linux 8 server.

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How To Install and Use Docker on Rocky Linux 8 — step-by-step Docker tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Use Docker on Rocky Linux 8

Docker is an application that simplifies the process of managing application processes in containers. In this tutorial, you’ll install and use Docker Community Edition (CE) on Rocky Linux 8. You’ll install Docker itself, work with containers and images, and push an image to a Docker Repository.

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How to Keep Rocky Linux 8 Servers Updated — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Keep Rocky Linux 8 Servers Updated

the cloud provider makes it possible for you to run as many droplets as you need for a project with one click. However, it’s more straightforward to deploy a server than it is to maintain one, and as you scale up your infrastructure, and droplets end up having longer project lifespans than you originally envisioned, you may find that you have some unanswered questions about maintenance. There are many steps you can take to ensure your servers will continue to work securely without future intervention.

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How to Set Up Squid Proxy for Private Connections on Rocky Linux 9 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Set Up Squid Proxy for Private Connections on Rocky Linux 9

Proxy servers are a useful way of caching or obfuscating web traffic. This means that web requests can be served from different inbound or outbound addresses than they appear to be, by offloading the connection to intermediaries. For regular end users, this usually means allowing you to make web requests from a different IP address than your own. Squid is a stable, popular, open-source HTTP proxy. In this tutorial, you will be installing and configuring Squid to provide an HTTP proxy on Rocky.

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How To Install and Use Docker on Rocky Linux 9 — step-by-step Docker tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Use Docker on Rocky Linux 9

Docker is an application that simplifies the process of managing application processes in containers. In this tutorial, you’ll install and use Docker Community Edition (CE) on Rocky Linux 9. You’ll install Docker itself, work with containers and images, and push an image to a Docker Repository.

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How To Keep Rocky Linux 9 Servers Updated — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Keep Rocky Linux 9 Servers Updated

the cloud provider makes it possible for you to run as many droplets as you need for a project with one click. However, it’s more straightforward to deploy a server than it is to maintain one, and as you scale up your infrastructure, and droplets end up having longer project lifespans than you originally envisioned, you may find that you have some unanswered questions about maintenance. There are many steps you can take to ensure your servers will continue to work securely without future intervention.

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How To Set Up SSH Keys on Rocky Linux 8 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Set Up SSH Keys on Rocky Linux 8

SSH, or secure shell, is an encrypted protocol used to administer and communicate with servers. When working with a Rocky Linux server, chances are you will spend most of your time in a terminal session connected to your server through SSH. In this guide, we’ll focus on…

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How To Install and Use PostgreSQL on Rocky Linux 8 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Install and Use PostgreSQL on Rocky Linux 8

PostgreSQL, or Postgres, is a relational database management system that provides an implementation of the SQL querying language. It is a popular choice for many small and large projects and has the advantage of being standards-compliant and having many advanced features like reliable transactions and concurrency without read locks.

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How To Protect an Nginx Server with Fail2Ban on Rocky Linux 8 — step-by-step Linux tutorial on Progressive Robot

How To Protect an Nginx Server with Fail2Ban on Rocky Linux 8

In this guide, you will learn how to install `fail2ban` on a Rocky Linux 8 server and configure it to monitor your Nginx logs for intrusion attempts. Fail2ban can significantly mitigate brute force attacks by creating rules that automatically alter your firewall configuration to ban specific IPs after a certain number of unsuccessful login attempts. This will allow your server to harden itself against these access attempts without intervention from you.

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