Logrotate is the standard log rotation utility on RHEL 8, responsible for automatically compressing, archiving, and pruning log files before they consume excessive disk space. Without it, long-running applications like NGINX, custom services, and Java applications can silently fill a filesystem partition and cause outages. Logrotate ships with RHEL 8 and is already configured for […]
Netdata is a lightweight, real-time performance monitoring agent that collects thousands of system and application metrics with per-second granularity and displays them through a built-in, zero-configuration web dashboard. Unlike heavier stacks, Netdata starts delivering useful insights within minutes of installation and requires virtually no ongoing maintenance. It can also stream metrics to a central parent […]
Zabbix is a mature, enterprise-grade open-source monitoring platform capable of tracking availability, performance, and log data for thousands of hosts from a single server. It ships with auto-discovery, customizable triggers, rich alerting integrations, and a polished web interface. Installing Zabbix 6.x on RHEL 8 takes roughly thirty minutes and gives you production-ready monitoring backed by […]
The ELK Stack — Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana — is the industry-standard open-source platform for centralizing, parsing, and visualizing log data. Elasticsearch stores and indexes log events, Logstash ingests and transforms raw log lines using configurable pipelines, and Kibana provides a browser-based interface for search and visualization. Running the ELK Stack on RHEL 8 gives […]
HTTP security headers instruct browsers how to handle your site’s content and protect visitors from clickjacking, cross-site scripting, MIME sniffing, and other common attacks. Adding these headers to Nginx or Apache on RHEL 8 is a high-value, low-effort hardening step that improves both your security posture and your score on tools like securityheaders.com. This tutorial […]
Running your own Certificate Authority (CA) with OpenSSL gives you complete control over the certificates issued to your internal services, enabling mutual TLS, encrypted internal APIs, and custom certificate policies without relying on commercial CAs for private infrastructure. On RHEL 8, OpenSSL is pre-installed and the system trust store is managed through the ca-trust framework, […]
SSL/TLS certificates are the foundation of encrypted communications on the internet, authenticating servers and encrypting data in transit. On RHEL 8, OpenSSL provides a full-featured toolkit for creating your own Certificate Authority, generating server certificates, and managing the entire certificate lifecycle. Understanding this process is essential for securing internal services without relying on external providers. […]
SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux) is a mandatory access control (MAC) framework built into the Linux kernel and enabled by default on every RHEL 8 installation. Unlike discretionary access controls such as standard Unix permissions, SELinux enforces policy rules that confine processes to only the files, sockets, and capabilities they legitimately require, limiting the blast radius of […]
Pulumi is an Infrastructure as Code platform that lets you define cloud resources using general-purpose programming languages such as Python, TypeScript, or Go, rather than a domain-specific language. On RHEL 8, Pulumi pairs naturally with the existing Python ecosystem, allowing you to create and manage AWS resources using familiar constructs like loops, functions, and modules. […]
Fluentd is a unified logging layer that collects logs from multiple sources, parses and transforms them, and forwards the output to destinations such as Elasticsearch, S3, or another Fluentd aggregator. On RHEL 8, the Treasure Data package td-agent provides a supported, RPM-based distribution of Fluentd that integrates with systemd and works alongside your existing application […]
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