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Deepak Prasad

Deepak Prasad

R&D Engineer

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Founder of GoLinuxCloud with more than 15 years of expertise in Linux, Python, Go, Laravel, DevOps, Kubernetes, Git, Shell scripting, OpenShift, AWS, Networking, and Security. With extensive experience, he excels across development, DevOps, networking, and security, delivering robust and efficient solutions for diverse projects.

Areas of expertise

Certifications & credentials

  • Red Hat Certified System Administrator in Red Hat OpenStackID: 180-246-001
  • Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation
  • Go: Data Structures, Algorithms and Design Patterns With Go
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Articles by Deepak Prasad

linux

Install LAMP Stack on Rocky Linux 8

Step by Step instructions to install LAMP Stack on Rocky Linux 8. Install and configure Linux, Apache, MariaDB and PHP

Deepak Prasad7 min read
networking

Set Static IP in Rocky Linux [6 Different Methods]

6 different methods to configure and set static IP Address in Rocky Linux. Use nmtui, nmcli, ifcfg, ip and ifconfig utility to configure static IP address

Deepak Prasad11 min read
linux

5 effective ways to unlock user account in Linux

How to unlock the password for user account in Linux. If an account is locked due to login failure then use pam_tally2 or pam_fallock to unlock user account.

Deepak Prasad9 min read
devops

How to provision AWS EC2 Instances using Ansible

How to provision AWS EC2 instances using ansible playbook. Create, launch, start, stop and terminate instances using tags and instance id with ec2 module

Deepak Prasad14 min read
devops

Kubernetes Privileged Pod Practical Examples

Step by Step instructions to create Kubernetes privileged pod and Kubernetes non-privileged pod with Linux capabilities examples

Deepak Prasad14 min read
security

6 easy steps to setup offline two factor authentication in Linux

Configure Google Authenticator with Offline two factor authentication to secure ssh, sudo and su using PAM module pam_google_authenticator.so in RHEL/CentOS 7/8

Deepak Prasad10 min read
cheatsheet

Linux Interview questions and answers for experienced users

Here I have consolidated 29 linux interview questions and answers for experienced professionals working into Linux or System Administrator profile.

Deepak Prasad6 min read
devops

A complete guide to write your first Ansible Playbook

Ansible playbooks are rrdered lists of tasks, saved so you can run those tasks in that order repeatedly. Playbooks can include variables as well as tasks.

Deepak Prasad16 min read
linux

Install Airmon-ng Kali Linux [2 Methods with Examples]

Airmon-ng utility is a command-line tool used to enable monitor mode on wireless interfaces. It comes with the Aircrack-ng package.

Deepak Prasad5 min read
security

Install & Configure OpenVPN Server Easy-RSA 3 (RHEL/CentOS 7) in Linux

Install and configure openvpn server and openvpn client with easy-rsa 3 in centos or rhel 7 linux. Create CA, CSR certificates for openvpn server client model.

Deepak Prasad14 min read
linux

How to exclude some accounts from being locked after multiple incorrect password

Exclude some accounts from being locked out in Linux after providing multiple incorrect password using pam_tally2 and pam_faillock insystem-auth password-auth

Deepak Prasad5 min read
system-administration

Steps to Install and configure Controller Node in OpenStack - Part 1

Step by step guide to install and configure controller node in openstack, configure openstack services like keystone, mariadb, rabbitmq, environment files

Deepak Prasad16 min read
linux

Know impacts of chmod 777 command [Be Cautious]

In this article we conver the impacts of chmod 777 command in Linux and how can be a threat to security. We should ideally never use chmod 777 as this is barely required.

Deepak Prasad6 min read
storage

Step-by-Step Tutorial: Configure Hybrid Software RAID 10 in Linux

Steps to configure hybrid software raid 10 (1+0) in Linux with examples. Hybrid RAID 1+0 results from the combination of RAID-0 and RAID-1 Array in Linux.

Deepak Prasad8 min read
storage

Create Mirrored Logical Volume in Linux [Step-by-Step]

LVM supports mirrored volumes. A mirror maintains identical copies of data on different devices. LVM ensures that data written to an underlying physical volume is mirrored onto a separate physical volume.

Deepak Prasad10 min read
storage

Manage Logical Volume in Linux - One STOP Solution

The Logical Volume Manager is a collection of one or more physical devices called Volume Group (VG), each physical device on the VG called a Physical Volume (PV)

Deepak Prasad18 min read
system-administration

10 easy steps to move directory to another partition RHEL/CentOS 7/8

How to move directory to another partition move opt to new partition. move home to another partition. move var to new partition in RHEL/CentOS 7/8 Linux.

Deepak Prasad11 min read
system-administration

Configure xfs quota (user, group and project quota) CentOS/RHEL 7/8

Configure xfs quota for user, group, projects (disk). Check and Modify XFS quota grace period. Enable and Disable XFS Quota in RHEL/CentOS 7/8 with examples

Deepak Prasad14 min read
linux

10 easy steps to setup High Availability Cluster CentOS 8

Step-by-Step Guide to setup Linux High Availability Cluster in CentOS 8 using system_id_source uname. Configure pacemaker, corosync and linux HA cluster.

Deepak Prasad16 min read
storage

Step-by-Step Tutorial: Configure software Linear RAID 0 in Linux

Steps to configure software raid with linear raid which is similar with RAID 0 but in Linear RAID the data is stored in linear format instead of stripping

Deepak Prasad11 min read
storage

Step-by-Step Tutorial: Configure Software RAID 0 in Linux

Steps to configure software raid 0 with examples in linux. With RAID 0 there is no data redundancy as the data is stored in strips but this has better speed.

Deepak Prasad4 min read
storage

Step-by-Step Tutorial: Configure Software RAID 1 in Linux

Steps to configure software raid 1 mirroring in linux with and without spare disk with examples in RHEL, CentOS and other Linux distros using mdadm.

Deepak Prasad9 min read
storage

How to mount filesystem in certain order one after the other in CentOS/RHEL

Mount filesystem in certain order during reboot one after the other using systemd unit file or /etc/fstab using RequiresMountsFor x-systemd.requires- mounts-for

Deepak Prasad9 min read
system-administration

RHEL/CentOS 8 Kickstart example | Kickstart Generator

In this article I will share most used Kickstart commands to automate installation in sample RHEL/CentOS 8 Kickstart example file and link to kickstart generator

Deepak Prasad13 min read
devops

Ansible Inventory files (static vs dynamic) with examples

Learn about different types of ansible inventory files, static, dynamic, create custom dynamic inventory script, groups and variables in inventory with examples

Deepak Prasad15 min read
linux

How to add Windows Workstation to Samba AD DC (with screenshots)

Step by step tutorial to add Windows Workstation to Samba Active Directory Domain Controller and manage AD using Windows with RSAT

Deepak Prasad3 min read
linux

Install Rocky Linux 8 [Step-by-Step with Screenshots]

This guide covers how to install Rocky Linux 8.4 on VirtualBox. Rocky Linux is the replacement of the much-loved CentOS whose support will end on December 31, 2021

Deepak Prasad8 min read
devops

Easy steps to install multi-node Kubernetes Cluster CentOS 8

Install multi-node Kubernetes cluster using kubeadm on CentOS 8 Linux. Learn deployment architecture, with Docker CE runtime and weave networking add-on plugin

Deepak Prasad26 min read
devops

Easy steps to add node to existing cluster in Kubernetes

Install all the Kubernetes components i.e. kubeadm, kubectl, kubelet. Use kubeadm join command to add node to existing cluster in Kubernetes.

Deepak Prasad8 min read
linux

Install Kali Linux on VirtualBox [step-by-step screenshots]

Step by step instructions to install kali linux in virtualbox with screenshots. 2 different methods to install Kali Linux on Oracle VirtualBox

Deepak Prasad9 min read