Category: Linux

2. September 2023

How to Install VMware Tools in Rocky Linux

As most people know, CentOS is being replaced by Rocky Linux (and others) as the closest Linux distribution to RedHat Enteprise. Therefore, it was important to me that we talk briefly and crisply about the VMware Tools, because it is always important within the process of VM provisioning. Therefore I describe below how to install the VMware Tools under Rocky Linux. First let us start […]

31. December 2022

NFS-Server with CentOS 8 / Red Hat 8 for VMware vCenter Backups

In various community meetings, we often talk about backups for VMware vCenter. As you know, image based backups are only conditionally “supported”. It can go well, but in most cases the VMware vCenter will not be fully restored and you will be forced to re-deploy the appliance. Community and customers are ambivalent, one backs up his VMware vCenter via Veeam etc., the other via the […]

18. October 2022

How to Install and Configure Zabbix Agents on Remote Linux

Continuing the Zabbix series, this tutorial will guide you on how you can install and configure Zabbix agents on Linux (Debian-based systems and RHEL-based distros) in order to actively monitor local resources on remote systems. The main job of Zabbix agents consists in gathering local information from the targets where they run and sending the data to a central Zabbix server to be further processed and analyzed. If you do […]

14. October 2022

How to Install Zabbix Monitoring Tool on Debian 11/10

Zabbix is a free, open-source, popular, and feature-rich IT infrastructure monitoring software developed using PHP language. It is used to monitor networks, servers, applications, services as well as cloud resources. It also supports the monitoring of storage devices, databases, virtual machines, telephony, IT security resources, and much more. This tutorial shows how to install and configure the latest release of Zabbix open-source monitoring tool on Debian 11 and Debian 10 with MySQL database to […]

28. June 2022

How to Update CentOS 8 / RHEL 8

This guide helps you how to update CentOS 8 / RHEL 8 system to have the latest updated packages or OS minor release on the system as well as to keep the system secure. First, let’s look at what are the updates waiting for your system by: The following updates are available for my machine: If you are satisfied with the updates, proceed to install […]

11. April 2022

Creating Ubuntu OS Custom ISO

As part of a customer project I had to do a complete offline installation of an Ubuntu server with various packages: Linux: nano zip unzip tree make java (JRE & JDK) ant openssh net-tools htop Python 3.6.9 (prereqs for Python are gcc openssl-devel bzip2-devel libffi-devel) Python: paramiko pandas ntc-templates After a little research on the internet, I found out that downloading .deb files is not […]

24. March 2022

How to Install Bitwarden Password Manager on Debian 11

Bitwarden is an open-source solution that lets you manage your accounts and protect them with passwords of varying complexity. For this purpose, the program also offers a two-step authentication process, among other things. As with most popular password managers, Bitwarden secures data using 256-bit AES encryption. The data vault is then accessed via a master password, which they must assign during the installation process. The […]

22. March 2022

How to install Bitwarden Password Manager on CentOS Stream 8

Bitwarden is an open-source solution that lets you manage your accounts and protect them with passwords of varying complexity. For this purpose, the program also offers a two-step authentication process, among other things. As with most popular password managers, Bitwarden secures data using 256-bit AES encryption. The data vault is then accessed via a master password, which they must assign during the installation process. The […]

18. March 2022

Install Docker Compose on CentOS Stream 8

This guide will show you how to Install the Latest Docker Compose on CentOS Stream 8. Docker Compose is a tool designed to define and release multicontainer applications. With Compose, you can create a YAML file to define the services that you can start or stop with a single command. Definitely, access to the Terminal as a user with sudo privileges. Step 1: You need […]

15. March 2022

Install Docker on CentOS Stream 8

In this Tutorial I will show you how to install Docker on CentOS Stream 8. Docker is a popular open source tool that provides a portable and consistent runtime environment for software applications. Docker uses containers as isolated environments in user space that run at the operating system level and share the file system and system resources. There are two editions of Docker available. Community […]