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Install MySQL 8 on CentOS 7

How to install MySQL 8 on CentOS 7 is our next quick tutorial where we will learn in just a few easy steps how to install and test latest MySQL 8 available – as of today – from Oracle on a CentOS 7 server by using only our terminal window. These days most of modern companies are using Cloud managed services for their databases, some of these with fancy names, different functions, speeds and sizes but sometimes we may have no other choice than to use the classic MySQL. Depending on the project requirements we may have to perform these […]

Category: General | Published: 14/05/2019 | Updated: 19/07/2019

Install latest NGiNX on CentOS 7

In this short tutorial we will learn how to install latest NGiNX version on CentOS 7. In an era of containers and all fancy technologies we have to admit that from time to time we need to look and even go back to the basics and install ourselves, manually services like NGiNX for example. NGiNX is a great web server software being able to perform very well as reverse proxy, load balancer and even as ingress router for container technologies. Indeed the free version of NGiNX may not have all capabilities as the commercial one but still plenty of nice […]

Category: General | Published: | Updated: 30/05/2019

Setup AWS CLI on CentOS 7

Setting up AWS CLI on CentOS 7 is quite straight forward, no need for advanced knowledge or a huge amount of time in order to install this. AWS CLI is a very powerful toolset that helps you to manage all your AWS resources by using the Command Line Interface API calls instead of the well known classic Web Console. AWS CLI can be used and implemented in various projects like Automation, Cost Control, Security Audit etc. giving you the power to manipulate and query all AWS resources in a more granular manner. In this very short tutorial we will guide […]

Category: General | Published: 09/04/2019 | Updated: 26/08/2019

Install Python from Source

Python is one of the most used programming language and in this tutorial we will show you how to install Python from source on a CentOS 7 operating system. We can safely say that Python, conceived in the late 1980s by Guido van Rossum, comes these days preinstalled on most Linux distributions. If it is not there by default then we can always install it, for example on CentOS we can get Python using yum utility but as we know that will not be the latest Python version available. We may have a new project that requires to be built […]

Category: General | Published: | Updated: 28/05/2019

Resize RAID 0 array by adding new disks

In this tutorial called Resize RAID 0 Array by Adding New Disks we will learn how to extend an existing RAID 0 Array in just a few easy steps via CLI. Before starting to resize your RAID 0 array please do take a backup of your data, this is very important as the resize action can lead to data loss. It’s well known that RAID 0 architecture by definition is very fast but in the same time it is not the safest, at any time one of the disks can fail and the entire array could be lost. It is […]

Category: General | Published: 10/01/2019 | Updated: 23/04/2019

Yum fix duplicate error

Yum duplicate package error can occur anytime and most of the times when servers are under provisioned in terms of hardware capacity like RAM memory or even CPU. This can happen when a small server needs to perform multiple updates that requires more resources than usual making the update process almost impossible. Of course, failure is not an option and we will do our best to explain in this short tutorial how to fix yum duplicate errors by using yum-utils utility. So before we start our little journey fixing those yum errors we must say that this solution has been […]

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