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Install vips, vips-tools and vips-devel (libvips) on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we will talk about how to install vips, vips-tools and vips-devel (libvips) on CentOS 7. These packages can be required for various reasons like for example during installation of some NodeJS packages like GraphQL. Vips tools and development packages can be easily obtained and installed from Remi repo, unfortunately by default these packages are not present on CentOS repos. So let’s start our short step by step tutorial tutorial about installing Vips on CentOS 7. Table of contents Install Epel repo Install yum-utils Install and enable Remi repo Install vips (libvips) Install Epel repo On our very […]

Category: General | Published: 06/04/2019 | Updated: 23/04/2019

Setup an SFTP Server on CentOS

Set up an SFTP server on CentOS is our next tutorial where we will guide you as always, step by step, how to build from scratch such a server. We all agree that an SFTP server can be quite handy or sometimes a must if for example one or more applications within our stack requires file transfer between different processing steps or maybe for backups. In this tutorial we will learn how to build an SFTP server on CentOS 7 and OpenSSH 7.4 and also providing you two authentication solutions, first one being based on using basic password authentication and […]

Category: General | Published: 08/11/2018 | Updated: 14/12/2018

Kubernetes Cluster setup on CentOS

Kubernetes Cluster setup on CentOS isn’t that difficult anymore as it used to be in the past where we had to perform some major OS changes in order to build a proper environment. In this short tutorial we will guide you step by step how to actually set up a simple Kubernetes Cluster based on CentOS 7.5 and Kubernetes 1.12.1. Exactly like any other cluster a Kubernetes Cluster must always have an odd number of nodes like 3, 5, 7 and so on but in this particular tutorial we will resume to use only 3 nodes, one master node and […]

Category: Docker | Published: 23/10/2018 | Updated: 02/10/2019

Setup NFS Server and NFS Client on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we will learn how to set up NSF Server and NFS Client on CentOS 7 operating system, setting up or managing a NFS server or a NFS client is not quite a complex task at all, we’ll do our best to explain this entire process in the most simple possible way. We can use the set up from this tutorial for various small network sharing applications like setting up a backup server or maybe a simple file server etc., either way NFS package is always a good candidate to start with. Network File System (NFS) has been […]

Category: General | Published: 17/07/2018 | Updated: 26/08/2019

How to install Elasticsearch 2.4 and OpenResty on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we’ll explain how to install and configure a three node Elasticsearch 2.4 cluster on CentOS 7. Also, we’ll learn how to install OpenResty that will provide a layer of security for our Elasticsearch cluster, Elasticsearch-HQ that will give us some nice metrics, Kopf plugin and of course Kibana. Why ES 2.4? Well it’s complicated but lets say we’ve choose 2.4 just because this particular version isn’t supported anymore by Elastic and some of you may be “forced” to use this version for a while until you redesign your software to comply with a newer version in terms […]

Category: Security | Published: 18/04/2018 | Updated: 05/11/2018

Setup a Private Docker Registry

Setting up a private Docker registry locally for our organisation or maybe for personal use can be seen as a must if we don’t want to expose publicly our custom Docker images. It is true that we can easily get a private repository if we would go for a paid subscription to one of the providers available out there on the market that are offering such services, but why doing so when we can simply do it by ourselves, internally, completely isolated and being under our control. Having a private Docker repository / registry will give us the ability to […]

Category: Docker | Published: 20/12/2019 | Updated: 31/12/2019