When I’m lucky enough to be setting up a pure Linux domain Red Hat Identity Manager (idM) or even FreeIPA… Read more Join a RHEL7/CentOS7 host to Microsoft Active Directory Domain

My good friend Tony asked for a quick HowTo detailing the steps for setting up YUM to use the RHEL/CentOS/Fedora… Read more Request: Configure YUM to use the OS install disk as a repo

When my homelab grew to several desktops, laptops, and virtual machines it became difficult to remember which IP address I’d… Read more Install and Configure a Homelab Domain Name Server

The link below points to a Prezi presentation I drafted to champion Ansible automation at my organization. It assumes very… Read more Presentation: Introduction to Ansible Automation

Ansible is a powerful automation tool for Linux. It operates on the philosophy of anything you can do via SSH… Read more Ansible: A quick and dirty intro.

Ansible provides an automated means of performing nearly any administrative function against a list of any number of RHEL or… Read more Ansible Vault

I’ve added a short bash script that will return the IP address of a running KVM virtual machine. I needed… Read more vmip : Get the IP address of a KVM virtual machine

It is possible to configure a RHEL or CentOS server as an iSCSI initiator (a.k.a. client), or as an iSCSI… Read more iSCSI Initiators and Targets

When I had my computer stolen out of my home it wasn’t the machine I missed. My boxes usually have… Read more Simple Encrypted Backup to Gdrive

Keeping all of your server’s installed packages up to date is paramount to system security even if the server is… Read more Configure a Squid Proxy to Use With YUM.