Building a High-Availability Load Balancer with HAProxy and Keepalived
Environment Overview
1.1 System Requirements
This guide covers the deployment of a high-availability load balancing solution using HAProxy and Keepalived on CentOS 6.8 64-bit. The solution ensures that client requests are distributed across backend servers while providing automatic failover capability when the primary load balancer becomes u ...
Posted on Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:09:52 +0000 by rotarypot
Installing and Removing Nginx on CentOS 6.5 via YUM and Source Compilation
Installing Nginx with YUM
Ensure the system repositories are up to date:
yum update -y
Installl Nginx directly from the EPEL repository (if not already enabled):
yum install -y epel-release
yum install -y nginx
Enable and start the service:
chkconfig nginx on
service nginx start
Allow HTTP traffic through the firewall:
iptables -I INPUT -p t ...
Posted on Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:01:11 +0000 by gateway69
Setting Up SVN and Git Remote Repositories on CentOS 7.6 Server
Creating System User for Repository Management
Begin by creating a dedicated system account without a home directory:
useradd -M developer_user
The -M flag prevents automatic creation of the /home/developer_user directory.
Establish a password for the new user:
passwd developer_user
Follow the prompts to enter the desired password twice.
Esta ...
Posted on Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:47:13 +0000 by Ofro04
Installing and Configuring MySQL 8.0 on CentOS 7
Environment
CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804 (Core)
MySQL version: mysql80-community-release-el7-1
Pre-installation Check
CentOS 7 ships with MariaDB by default. Verify weather MySQL is already installed:
rpm -qa | grep mysql
[admin@localhost ~]$ rpm -qa | grep mysql
[admin@localhost ~]$
An empty result indicates no MySQL packages are present ...
Posted on Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:49:59 +0000 by Chiaki
Automating Remote File Synchronization with Sersync and Rsync on CentOS
Implementing Real-time File Synchronization with Sersync and Rsync
This guide details the implementation of a real-time file synchronization solution using Sersync and Rsync on CentOS systems. This setup allows for automatic synchronizasion of local file modifications to a remote directory, making it ideal for backup solutions and content mirro ...
Posted on Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:18:03 +0000 by Ravenous
Compiling and Installing Python 3.7 on CentOS 7
System Environment
Host: Windows 10 Pro with VMWare Workstation 15 Pro
Guest: CentOS 7.6.1810 (Core)
Privilegse: Root user
Procedure
Refresh the package index and upgrade instaleld packages.
yum update -y
Install required development libraries and tools.
yum groupinstall "Development Tools" -y
yum install zlib-devel bzip2-devel ope ...
Posted on Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:16:23 +0000 by thom2002
Configuring GRUB2 for Windows 10 and CentOS 7 Dual-Boot Environments
When setting up a dual-boot system with Windows 10 and CentOS 7, it's a common scenario for the GRUB2 bootloader installed by CentOS 7 not to automatically detect and list the Windows 10 operating system. This often occurs because GRUB2, by default in CentOS 7, may lack the necessary support to recognize and interact with the NTFS filesystem us ...
Posted on Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:38:21 +0000 by harvey
Parallel NFS (pNFS) Environment Setup
Note: The setup with CentOS 8 (kernel 4.18) is not viable. Switch the client and MDS to Ubuntu (tested successfully on Ubuntu 18.04 with kernel 4.15) while keeping the setup steps the same.
With the rapid development of networking and parallel computing, file I/O has become a bottleneck for overall system performence. Traditional NFS versions f ...
Posted on Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:15:43 +0000 by larrygingras
Installing Kubernetes 1.25 on a Cloud Server via Kubeadm for Lab Use
Kubernetes Environment Planning
Pod Network (podSubnet): 10.244.0.0/16
Service Network (serviceSubnet): 10.96.0.0/12
Lab Environment Specifications:
Operating System: CentOS 7.5
Configuration: 2GB RAM / 4 vCPU / 50GB HDD
Initializing the Kubernetes Cluster Environment
First, set up the production environment server. Later, node environments can ...
Posted on Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:31:44 +0000 by rcatal02
Troubleshooting RPCbind Service Startup Failure on CentOS 7
RPCbind Service Failure on CentOS 7.4
Issue Summary
After rebooting a virtual machine, NFS mounts configured in /etc/rc.local failed to execute properly.
Root Cause Analysis
The root cause was that the rpcbind service failed to start, which prevented NFS mounts from functioning. Attempting to restart the service reuslted in the following error: ...
Posted on Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:46:52 +0000 by mjseaden