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Portainer: How to Build a Home Lab Setup

Portainer is a lightweight, free, open-source Docker and Kubernetes management from a Web Browser. It provides a simple and user-friendly web interface to build and manage containers, images, networks, volumes, registries, services, and nodes. Portainer is very useful for anyone learning containers, docker, and K8s. This article will focus on...

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Install Grafana on a Raspberry Pi

As IT professionals, we always look for powerful and cost-effective tools to help us monitor and visualize data. Enter Grafana, an open-source platform that allows us to create interactive and customizable dashboards to display real-time metrics and analytics. And what’s even better? We can run Grafana on a Raspberry Pi,...

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Managing Users & Groups in RedHat

Managing Users in Linux User management in Linux refers to the process of creating, modifying, and deleting user accounts on a Linux system. It includes tasks such as creating new user accounts, modifying user account settings, assigning users to specific user groups, and managing user account permissions. In Linux, each...

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How to use Red Hat (RHEL8) as a Linux VM host

Red Hat Virtualization, building a Linux VM This is part 5 of the learning Red Hat series on my blog. Did you know you can use Red Hat as a Virtual Machine host? In fact you can use almost all new flavors of Linux to create a Linux VM host...

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Change the Root Password on a Linux Server

Sometimes a root password reset is needed, perhaps a system administrator has left your place of work and not documented the root password, or you have experienced an error in the operating system error that has halted the system in read-only mode. To change a password on Linux, like a...

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Understanding Red Hat Permissions

This is an overview of everything permissions based. You will learn about How to find file and file system permissions There are a number of different ways to find out file permissions in Linux. Stat command One of my favourite Linux commands is the stat command. Stat – gives you...

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How to manipulate files in RedHat

In the ever-evolving world of Linux, RedHat stands out as one of the most prominent and trusted distributions. At its core lies the ability to effectively manage and manipulate files, a foundational skill every system administrator or enthusiast should master. File manipulation encompasses the basics of creating, reading, and deleting...

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Learning Arcserve Backup and Restore (BMR)

How to do a Bare Metal Restore (BMR) on Arcserve backup and restore for Windows and Linux Servers This procedure is a step-by-step guide to create a Windows or Linux server (bare metal recovery) from an Arcserve backup. The assumption is being made that the backup is available on the...

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SSH to GCP Linux instance

The GCP console interface is very useful, but sometimes you may need to directly SSH from your on-premise infrastructure. This is particularly common after you migrate a Linux server from your own premises to GCP, as the Google Daemon, which provides Google Cloud console access, typically will not be installed....

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Installing Glances on Linux

What is Glances System Monitoring? Glances is a really cool Linux monitoring tool written in Python and available on nearly all Linux Distributions. The project’s full title is Glances – an eye on your system, and it is a popular Github project written by NicoLargo and maintained by the community....