Everything about AlmaLinux OS, the downstream distribution of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, made by CloudLinux.
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Many of you requested more articles about self-hosting and home servers. One of the major use cases is making files available for others in the network. This might be useful to share projects, but also for backups or filling your media library.
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You might have seen these displays where a video is played endlessly, an ad is shown on repeat or some useful data is made available for everybody. Or, have you used an ATM, a library PC or an info terminal? All of these are considered Kiosk solutions.
Podman
Portainer is an application, providing a web UI for management of Docker and Kubernetes. It is simple, yet powerful, and easy to use. But, what about Portainer on Podman? In this article, I will give a quick guide, how you can get it running and start your first containers.
AlmaLinux
I am in the middle of setting up my home lab, but also working on a project, named beby.cloud. In both cases, I want to do the initial setup automatically on a Raspberry Pi system. Fortunately, AlmaLinux OS supports Cloud-Init, so we can handle this easily.
Linux
Lot's has changed since my last articles about Red Hat, CentOS, Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux. This is not your typical "Rocky vs. Alma" article. Instead, I want to give my take on how the "family tree" looks like today and how things are going.
Ansible
Ansible is easy, simple, and powerful, right? Sure, and it is a pain to get it right. There are various tools that are meant to help you with Ansible. Let's take a look at Steampunk Spotter, a quality assurance tool, that makes it easy to improve your Ansible playbooks, roles, and collections.
Podman
Podman is the rootless drop-in replacement for Docker, but how do you administer Podman containers, images and more with the browser? Let's check out Cockpit and Podman application for it.
Linux
With the latest changes at Red Hat another wave pushed through the world of Open Source. Finally, the dust has settled a bit. In this article, I want to take a look at these changes, discuss if Red Hat is evil and how we might continue from here.
Kubernetes
In some past articles, I talked about Kubernetes and how to get started. Minikube is awesome for local development, but what about Kubernetes on small environments? k3s is one of the easiest ways to deploy and run a Kubernetes instance, which can also be used to create high available clusters.
Linux
Last month, I have given a class about Raspberry Pi programming. It was awesome, and I really like to help others understanding new things. To my surprise, some attendees weren't having any idea about Linux commands at all. We often forget, that some of us are just starting their journey.
KVM
In some past articles, we tackled KVM and libvirt as a virtualization option on Linux. But I never introduced the basics for the same. Therefore, let's have a look at KVM and libvirt on Fedora and see how you can get started.
Kickstart
Everybody who wanted to deploy a bunch of GNU/Linux machines at the same time was facing the same problem. Do I really want to click through the initial installer? Isn't there a better way? This article will demonstrate how Kickstart can be used.
Linux
You may have heard of Flatpaks, maybe even Flathub? The Flatpak community tries to provide a general package format and marketplace / app store for GNU/Linux packages. Since I am using Flatpak for quite some time now, I wanted to share some experience and details about it.
Linux
Linux is about "using the terminal", right? Maybe not. Cockpit provides an option, so you can operate your GN/Linux based operating system, even if you don't know the correct commands for many tools.
Conference
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend the "Nest with Fedora" conference in August. Fortunately, the folks at Fedora uploaded a ton of YouTube videos from the conference, so I was able to enjoy some content.
AlmaLinux
The first AlmaLinux OS release was published on 30.03.2021. Since CentOS shifted the focus to CentOS Stream, the community was waiting for a new open source downstream fork of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). In this article, I will have a look at AlmaLinux OS and explain what you might expect.