In this post I wanted to demonstrate converting from one of the RHEL compatible Enterprise Linux distributions, like CentOS, Rocky Linux or Oracle Linux, to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. I’ll be demonstrating from an Oracle Linux server running in Proxmox, however these steps will work regardless of the RHEL compatible distribution you are starting from […]
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Ansible is an open source, configuration management and automation tool sponsored by Red Hat. Ansible lets you define the state that your servers should be in using YAML and then proceeds to create that state over SSH. For example, the state might be that the Apache web server should be present and enabled. The great […]
In this post I’ll outline the steps to join an Enterprise Linux host to Microsoft Active Directory for user account management. Why would you want to do this? In an Enterprise environment it’s common to have a mix of Windows and Unix/Linux machines that offer different services across the organisation. To resolve the issues of […]
Installing Enterprise Linux
In this post I’m going to demonstrate the installation of Enterprise Linux in a Virtual lab environment. I’ll be installing both Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, because it’s the leading Enterprise Linux distribution, and CentOS Stream 9, because it’s the upstream community release of RHEL. The steps outlined here should be the same for all […]