KVM stands for Kernel based Virtual Machine, KVM is a free and open source type 2 hypervisor which is installed on top of Linux like distributions. Once the KVM is installed on your system then it becomes the virtualization server which allows us to run … Read more
Podman is a free and open-source daemonless container platform that was built to develop, manage and deploy containers and pods on a Linux environment. Pods are group of containers which are usually deployed on the same host system. Podman is gradually replacing docker which is … Read more
In today’s interconnected world, the security of our systems is of utmost importance. One crucial aspect of securing a Linux system is protecting it against unauthorized access through SSH. In this blog post, we will explore the steps to lock and unlock user accounts after … Read more
As a Linux user, understanding and managing processes is essential for optimizing system performance and troubleshooting potential issues. While the built-in top command provides a basic overview of running processes, htop takes process monitoring to the next level with its user-friendly interface and powerful features. … Read more
Red Hat has provided two GUI tools for centralized management of remote nodes using Ansible. Ansible Tower AWX Ansible Tower is a web-based interface and REST API endpoint for Ansible. It provides centralized logging and auditing, role-based access control and push-button deployment. AWX is an … Read more
The Top utility tool is a handy tool that gives Linux users a peek at the performance statistics on their systems. You can use it to monitor resource metrics such as memory usage, CPU, load average, uptime and processes that are running on the system. … Read more
In this topic, we shed light on how you can add or attach an EBS (Elastic Block Storage) volume on an AWS instance. An extra EBS volume supplements storage space for your instance. Once attached to the AWS instance, the EBS volume becomes a block … Read more
Docker is a daemon-based container engine which allows us to deploy applications inside containers. With the release of RHEL 8 and CentOS 8, docker package has been removed from their default package repositories, docker has been replaced with podman and buildah. If are comfortable with … Read more
Ansible is increasingly becoming the go-to platform for application deployment, and software provisioning among developers owing to its ease of use and flexibility. Furthermore, it is easy to set up and no agent is required to be installed on remote nodes, instead, Ansible uses password … Read more
Ansible is an awesome automation tool for Linux sysadmins. It is an open source configuration tool which allows sysadmins to manage hundreds of servers from one centralize node i.e Ansible Server. Ansible is the preferred configuration tool when it is compared with similar tools like … Read more
Have you ever wondered how you can backup and restore your Ubuntu or Debian system ? TimeShift, a powerful backup and restore utility. TimeShift allows you to create system snapshots, providing an easy way to revert to a previous state in case of unexpected issues or … Read more
VirtualBox is a free and open source virtualization tool which allows techies to run multiple virtual machines of different flavor at the same time. It is generally used at desktop level (Linux and Windows), it becomes very handy when someone try to explore the features … Read more
