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RHEL and Red Hat administration guides — subscription manager, dnf/yum, SELinux, and enterprise Linux configuration.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is the commercial standard for regulated and large-scale Linux deployments, with subscription management, long support cycles, and vendor-backed security updates.

Guides here cover subscription-manager, kickstart and image builds, clustering, SELinux, and day-two operations on supported RHEL releases.

Browse tutorials when you need production-grade steps that assume Red Hat tooling, support contracts, or compliance requirements.

For free rebuilds with the same package stack, see Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux; for upstream previews, see Fedora.

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux tutorials illustration with subscription manager, kickstart, and SELinux
devops

#2-ELK Stack: Enable https with ssl/tls & secure elasticsearch cluster

Steps to enable HTTPS and SSL to secure elasticsearch cluster and ELK Stack using encrypted key and certificates in Linux with examples RHEL/CentOS 7/8

Deepak Prasad9 min read
devops

Setup KVM DRBD Cluster File System Pacemaker CentOS 8

Step-by-Step tutorial to configure DRBD CLuster File System with clone using Pacemaker 2.0 on KVM Virtual Machines with RHEL/CentOS 8 Linux. Verify DRBD Failover

Deepak Prasad11 min read
storage

Linux lvm snapshot backup and restore tutorial RHEL/CentOS 7/8

Step by step guide linux lvm snapshot backup and restore with examples RHEL/CentOS 7/8. Create, merge, extend, remove LVM snapshot. backup root file system

Deepak Prasad18 min read
linux

Beginners guide to install Ansible on RHEL/CentOS 8

Step by step tutorial to install ansible on RHEL 8 or CentOS 8 Linux. Configure ansible.cfg, create static inventory and run ad-hoc commands yum install ansible

Deepak Prasad11 min read
networking

Step-by-Step Tutorial: Configure DNS caching server - dnsmasq (CentOS/RHEL 7)

Dnsmasq is a lightweight, easy to configure DNS forwarder, designed to provide DNS (and optionally DHCP and TFTP) services to a small-scale network. It can serve the names of local machines which are not in the global …

Deepak Prasad4 min read
linux

SSH port forwarding | SSH Tunnel (Forward & Reverse)

Configure SSH Port forwarding tunneling between local and remote host in Linux. Example SSH session to forward port 8080 with ssh connection RHEL/CentOS

Deepak Prasad19 min read
linux

How to Install PowerISO on Linux [Step-by-Step]

Step by step instructions to install poweriso in Linux. Install PowerISO using GUI or Terminal manager in Ubuntu, Debian, Red hat, CentOS and any other distribution.

Omer Cakmak4 min read
linux

How to create anaconda updates.img used with inst.updates in RHEL 7/8

Steps to create anaconda updates.img also called as product,img with inst,updates in RHEl 7 and 8 during ISO or PXE installation Extract and rebuild updates.img

Deepak Prasad6 min read
linux

How to configure ipv6 address in Linux (RHEL / CentOS 7/8)

Configure IPv6 address using Network Manager (nmtui), CLI, Modify existing IPv6 address using nmci on Linux (RHEL / CentOS 7), Best practices for IPv6 usage

Deepak Prasad7 min read
security

How to PROPERLY Open Port in RHEL/CentOS Linux

Examples to open port in linux RHEL/CentOS 7/8 Use netstat to check port status. centos open firewall port. how to open and close ports. check if port is open

Deepak Prasad13 min read
linux

Step-by-Step: Create LVM during installation RHEL/CentOS 7/8

Step by step screenshots to create LVM during installation using Red Hat or CentOS 7/8 ISO. how to create lvm in redhat linux 7 step by step

Deepak Prasad6 min read
system-administration

Configure Thin Provision LVM using kickstart with example in CentOS/RHEL 7/8

Configure thin provision lvm using kickstart and PXE server in CentOS/RHEL 7 and 8 Linux with examples. Define custom chunksize and metadata to create thinpool

Deepak Prasad5 min read
linux

How to configure PXE boot server in Linux ( CentOS / RHEL 7 )

Step by step guide to configure PXE boot server using dnsmasq, dhcp, http, tftp- server in CentOS / RHEL 7 Linux using kickstart to automate the installation

Deepak Prasad12 min read
storage

5 easy steps to resize root LVM partition in RHEL/CentOS 7/8 Linux

Steps to resize root LVM partition. Increase or decrease root logical volume partition size with examples in RHEL/CentOS 7/8 Linux. Extend or shrink root LVM

Deepak Prasad8 min read
linux

Set up KVM PXE server to perform network boot RHEL CentOS 8

Step-by-Step tutorial to setup KVM PXE Server to perform qemu netboot for Virtual machines. Use virt-install pxe to network boot KVM Virtual Machines in Linux

Deepak Prasad13 min read
storage

How to configure iSCSI target and initiator on CentOS/RHEL 7/8 Linux

How to configure iscsi target and initiator multipath SAN on CentOS / RHEL 7 Linux. Configure iscsi target with targetcli and initiator with iscsiadm

Deepak Prasad8 min read
linux

How to create or configure network bridge in CentOS / RHEL 7/8

configure network bridge by this step by step guide on CentOS or RHEL 7 linux, configure network bridge using NetworkManager TUI, nmtui.

Deepak Prasad6 min read
security

How to configure secure Kerberized NFS Server ( RHEL / CentOS 7)

Setup Kerberized NFS share secured with kerberos authentication for LDAP Users using IPA server on RHEL / CentOS 7 Linux added security with sec=krb5p NFS share

Deepak Prasad6 min read
security

Fail2ban SSH config on Ubuntu 18.04 and RHEL/CentOS 8

5 steps guide to Install and configure fail2ban SSH on RHEL/CentOS 7/8 Ubuntu 18 with examples. Fail2ban log rotation list banned ip firewall iptables multiport

Deepak Prasad12 min read
system-administration

Configure postfix mail server and client with examples (CentOS/RHEL 7/8)

Configure postfix mail server and client using SMTP relay server. Check SMTP server configuration and connection with SWAKS. SMTP Mail Server CentOS/RHEL 7/8

Deepak Prasad17 min read
storage

Tutorial: What is GlusterFS shared storage and types of volumes

What is GlusterFS Tutorial Replication Types of Volumes. Distributed Volume Replicated Volume. RHEL CentOS 8 glusterfs shared storage. gluster file system linux

Deepak Prasad6 min read
linux

How to set GRUB2 password using grub2-setpassword (RHEL / CentOS 7)

Steps to set grub2 password using grub2-setpassword for unautorized modification of grub2 entries. Also steps to remove grub2 password from rhel /centos 7

Deepak Prasad3 min read
linux

Best practices to update kernel-core in RHEL/CentOS 8

Steps and best practices to update kernel-core and kernel-modules in Red Hat or CentOS 8 using yum and dnf. List and verify default kernel version

Deepak Prasad8 min read
linux

Install & Configure FreeIPA Server in RHEL/CentOS 8

steps to install and configure freeipa server in rhel 8 the packages necessary for installing an Identity Management server are shipped with IDM server module

Deepak Prasad16 min read
system-administration

Install & configure FreeIPA Server & Client (RHEL/CentOS 7)

Step by Step guide tutorial on how to install and configure FreeIPA, ipa server LDAP, kerberos, DNS and IPA client on RHEL/CentOS 7 Linux with GUI and CLI

Deepak Prasad12 min read
devops

What is fencing | Setup KVM cluster fencing RHEL CentOS 8

Step-by-Step Tutorial to configure cluster fencing, stonith device in RHEL and CentOS 8 Linux. Use fence_xvm to fence KVM HA Cluster nodes. Setup pacemaker fencing.

Deepak Prasad10 min read
linux

Install Oh My Zsh on Linux [Step-by-Step]

Step by Step instructions to install Oh My Zsh on different Linux distributions such as Ubuntu, Red Hat, CentOS, Debian, OpenSuSE, Arch Linux

Omer Cakmak4 min read
system-administration

Create KVM virtual machine | virt-manager | RHEL CentOS 8

Step-by-Step Guide to create KVM Virtual Machine using Virtual Manager in RHEL and CentOS 8 Linux. Create VM, Take Snapshot, Assign Networks using Virtual manager GUI

Deepak Prasad6 min read
linux

How to properly remove old kernels RHEL/CentOS 8

You can now use dnf command to remove old kernels from RHEL/CentOS 8 Linux. package-cleanup doesn't work any more. Use oldinstallonly with installonly_limit

Deepak Prasad5 min read
system-administration

How to install Oracle Virtual Box on Linux (CentOS / RHEL 7)

Step by step Guide to install Oracle Virtual Box on RHEL / CentOS 7 Linux. To install Oracle Virtual Box you need EPEL repo. Oracle Virtual 5.2 is out now

Deepak Prasad3 min read