Author: Sahil Suri

Ansible install on RHEL 8 explained

Posted by | Aug 22, 2019 | , , |

Introduction Automating the administration of our servers has become more important than ever with the exponential growth of our server estate. Using Ansible for automation gives us security, reliability and the need for lesser staff to effectively manage the systems. Moreover, the new RHCE exam from RedHat System Administration 3 is in fact Ansible based recognizing the skills needed for server automation. In this post, we’ll demonstrate how to install Ansible on a system running RHEL 8. Let’s check if ansible is currently available to us. [root@linuxnix ~]# yum list ansible Updating Subscription Management repositories. Last metadata expiration check: 0:04:15 ago on Mon 19 Aug 2019 06:52:14 AM IST. Error: No matching Packages to list [root@linuxnix ~]# From the above output, we can determine that ansible is currently not available and we will need to enable the required repository in order to install it. To list the repositories available with our subscription we will use the subscription-manager repos command. [root@linuxnix ~]# subscription-manager repos +----------------------------------------------------------+ Available Repositories in /etc/yum.repos.d/redhat.repo +----------------------------------------------------------+ Repo ID: satellite-tools-6-beta-for-rhel-8-x86_64-source-rpms Repo Name: Red Hat Satellite Tools 6 Beta (for RHEL 8 x86_64) (Source RPMs) Repo URL: https://cdn.redhat.com/content/beta/layered/rhlinuxnix/x86_64/sat-tools/6/source/SRPMS Enabled: 0 Repo ID: rhel-8-for-x86_64-appstream-rpms Repo Name: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 for x86_64 - AppStream (RPMs) Repo URL: https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhlinuxnix/$releasever/x86_64/appstream/os Enabled: 1 Repo ID: rhel-atomic-7-cdk-3.3-debug-rpms Repo Name: Red Hat Container Development Kit 3.3 /(Debug RPMs) Repo URL: https://cdn.redhat.com/content/dist/rhel/atomic/7/7Server/$basearch/cdk/3.3/debug Enabled: 0...

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RHEL 8 server registration with Red Hat subscription Management

Posted by | Aug 20, 2019 | , |

Introduction After installing RHEL 8, we will need to attach this system to our RedHat subscription to be able to download and install software updates. In our last article, we explained step by step how to install RHEL 8 on a virtual machine. In this post, we will demonstrate how to subscribe our system to RedHat. Before we get started let’s run the yum repolist command to verify that we don’t have any active subscriptions on the system. [root@linuxnix ~]# yum repolist Updating Subscription Management repositories. Unable to read consumer identity This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager to register. No repositories available [root@linuxnix ~]# The output says that we should use subscription-manager to register and that is exactly what we are going to do. To register your system with RedHat subscription Management, type the following command: subscription-manager register --username your-redhat-developer-username --password your-password Here the developer-username is the one we used to register with the RedHat developer program and download the RHEL 8 ISO. If the above-mentioned command succeeds then we should see some output similar to the one shown below. Registering to: subscription.rhsm.redhat.com:443/subscription The system has been registered with ID: df591e1b-43d1-43a8-99e4-38m1f17dbc52 The registered system name is: linuxnix [root@linuxnix ~]# Now that the system is registered, we need to attach it to our subscription with the following command. [root@linuxnix ~]# subscription-manager attach...

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RHEL 8 installation step by step with screenshots

Posted by | Aug 19, 2019 | , |

Introduction The latest version of the industry-leading operating system from RedHat, RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 8 was released on May 7, 2019. The announcement comes almost five years after the release of RHEL 7 which succeeded the highly successful RHEL 6.  In this article, we will demonstrate step by step how you could obtain your own copy of RHEL 8 free of cost and install it. Given below are some of the changes/upgrades implemented in RHEL 8 in contrast to its predecessor: Application Stream (AppStream) repositories allow the delivery of userspace packages with more simplicity and flexibility. Lightweight, open standards-based container toolkit (Buildah, Podman, Skopeo) System-wide Cryptographic Policies are also included. Supports more efficient Linux networking in containers through IPVLAN. Includes a new TCP/IP stack with Bandwidth and Round-trip propagation time (BBR) congestion control. Cockpit web console is now available by default and provides a simplified interface to easily manage servers locally and remotely. Yum 4 (based on DNF), delivers faster performance, fewer installed dependencies and more choices of package versions to meet specific workload requirements. Support for LUKSv2 to encrypt on-disk data combined with Network-Bound Disk Encryption (NBDE) for more robust data security and more simplified access to encrypted data. RHEL 8 is based on Fedora 28 and uses Linux kernel version 4.18. GNOME Shell has been rebased to version 3.28, using Wayland the default display server....

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