About Nginx Nginx is a high performance web server software. It is a much more flexible and lightweight program than Apache HTTP Server. This tutorial will teach you how to install and start Nginx on your CentOS 7 server. Prerequisites The steps in this tutorial require the user to have root privileges. You can see ..

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Introduction MongoDB is a versatile NoSQL database that stores data objects as JSON documents. Requirements Add the Repository Some Linux distributions may already provide the MongoDB packages in the default distribution repository. The following steps will describe adding a new repository provided by the MongoDB project which provides the latest version available. Create a /etc/yum.repos.d/mongodb.repo file using ..

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Install and Configure collect You will need to install the following for this next section. Once installed you now need to configure collectd to utilize the proxy we installed Uncomment and update the lines: Where we have 10.10.10.10 you’ll want to replace with your container’s private IP address. Verify You can use tcpdump to ensure packets are ..

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This article briefly describes a method of identifying which network interfaces on a Linux server are associated with which IP addresses. IPv4 You can get a simple list of the network interfaces and IPv4 addresses on your server by running the following command: The output will list the interface names on the left and the ..

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Prerequisites Keep in mind besides having apache and mod_ssl installed, you will need to have an IP address for this SSL cert and a unique IP address for each SSL that you want to host. Certificate authorities and browsers require that all SSL certs be on their own IP address. Installing your SSL Certificate Copy ..

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The iotop utility provides an easy-to-use interface for monitoring swap and disk I/O on a per-process basis. Watching the disk Sometimes you get more disk activity on your system than you would like. Maybe you saw the problem by running iostat, or you’ve noticed that the system is swapping heavily, or you got an email ..

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In order to run elasticsearch as a service on your operating system, the provided packages try to make it as easy as possible for you to start and stop elasticsearch during reboot and upgrades. Linuxedit Currently our build automatically creates a debian package and an RPM package, which is available on the download page. The ..

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Installing psacct or acct Packages psacct or acct both are similar packages and there is not much difference between them, but the psacctpackage only available for rpm based distributions such as RHEL, CentOS and Fedora, whereas acct package available for distributions like Ubuntu, Debian and Linux Mint. To install psacct package under rpm based distributions issue the following yum command. # yum install psacct To install acct package using apt-get command under Ubuntu / Debian / Linux Mint. $ sudo apt-get install ..

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This tutorial shows you how to set up strong SSL security on the nginx webserver. We do this by updating OpenSSL to the latest version to mitigate attacks like Heartbleed, disabling SSL Compression and EXPORT ciphers to mitigate attacks like FREAK, CRIME and LogJAM, disabling SSLv3 and below because of vulnerabilities in the protocol and ..

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Private Docker Registry in Kubernetes Kubernetes offers an optional private Docker registry addon, which you can turn on when you bring up a cluster or install later. This gives you a place to store truly private Docker images for your cluster. How it works The private registry runs as a Pod in your cluster. It does not ..

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