Author: BalaSubramanian

  • Ansible ad-hoc commands are mainly useful for one time task. for example if we want to check the whether servers are reachable, or to find kernel or os version for servers, in this section we are going to see few…

    Ansible 2.9 ad-hoc commands
  • dnf or Dandified YUM utility used in since Fedora 18, RHEL / CentOS8, In this blog we are going to see dnf features and how to use. dnf package manager utility is used to install / remove / update package…

    dnf Package manager utility RHEL / CentOS 8 / Fedora
  • LVM is a device mapper that manages the block devices. LVM disk can be resized, expect boot volume (/boot) all other file system can be made into LVM partitions. We can dynamically allocate / de-allocate the file system with out…

    LVM Filesystem creation in Linux
  • Ansible is an open source tool used to automate the daily tasks and avoid the repeated tasks, Ansible works on python and ssh protocol to communicate with the nodes. Ansible works on Control / Managed nodes, Control node is an…

    Easy steps to install ansible command line on Ubuntu 18.04
  • sar informations are recorded for each and every second, we can see the current sar data’s as well as historic datas from the sar file, two files are written in the default path of sar configuration. i.e., saXX and sarXX…

    On-Demand sar command usage (Ubuntu 18.04)
  • YUM – Is Yellow Dog Update / Modifier, is a command line tool used as package manager. using yum we to install / update /remove the package. Dependencies are installed automatically from the yum repository. In this section we are…

    Easy use of yum package manager RHEL-CentOS 6/7/8
  • Linux is Open source software in earlier stages, It has been the most used operating system in the world, the Linux distributions are based on collection of software, based on the package manager the Linux distributions are available, both Open…

    Linux Operating System Distribution
  • When users are reporting the servers are slow or facing issues in the connection, few commands that will make quick understanding about the system, The first and for most is doing the connectivity check from the local machine(laptop or desktop),…

    Quick Health check on Linux servers v1.0
  • TThere are several of methods to migrate from old to new storage, in this section we are going to migrate using pvmove for the migration, we use pvmove in physical server storage migration. Step-byStep Storage Migration using LVM is the…

    Kickstart Storage Migration using LVM
  • For our repeated tasks we can create a playbook, using the playbook we can run multiple tasks. in this section we are going to see how to write a playbook for the package installation

    Simple Ansible playbook for installing packages