Install-Checkmk-CentOS8-RHEL8

How to Install and Configure Checkmk on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8

Developed in Python & C++ languages, Checkmk is an open-source monitoring server that is an improvement of Nagios operating system with enhanced plugins and monitoring capabilities. Checkmk uses agents to collect and ship remote systems’ metrics to the server. The agents are available for both … Read more

DualBoot-LinuxMint20-Windows10

How to Dual Boot Linux Mint 20 with Windows 10

Linux Mint 20, also referred to as Ulyana, was released in June 2020 and packs with a basket of new features and enhancements to improve your overall user experience. If you have Windows 10 already on your PC and would like to reap the full … Read more

GCP-Kubernetes-Cluster-Option

How to Setup Kubernetes Cluster on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Popularly known as K8s or Kube, Kubernetes is an opensource orchestration platform that automates the deployment, scaling, and monitoring of containerized applications. In simple terms, Kubernetes allows users to efficiently manage clusters which are made up of groups of running containers such as Linux containers. … Read more

Ansible-Jinja2-Templates

How to Use Jinja2 Template in Ansible Playbook

Jinja2 is a powerful and easy to use python-based templating engine that comes in handy in an IT environment with multiple servers where configurations vary every other time. Creating static configuration files for each of these nodes is tedious and may not be a viable … Read more

Use-Loops-Ansible-Playbook

How to Use Loops in Ansible Playbook

In the course of executing tasks in Ansible playbook, you might come across some tasks that are repetitive in nature. These are tasks that require you to create multiple plays, something which can be quite tedious. As with any programming language, loops in Ansible provide … Read more

Setup-NFS-Server-CentOS8-RHEL8

How to Setup NFS Server on CentOS 8 / RHEL 8

An acronym for Network File Share, NFS is a cross-platform client/server protocol that allows clients machines to access files shared by the NFS server over a network. Client systems can locally mount the filesystems from the NFS server and access files and directories as though … Read more