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How To Install Foreman on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 / Oracle Linux 7

Foreman is an open source tool that helps you to provision, configure, manage and monitor the servers. With the help of configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, Salt, and Foreman’s smart proxy architecture, you can easily automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploy applications, and proactively manage change. Foreman provides comprehensive, interaction facilities including a web […]

How to Create Puppet Manifests / Modules – CentOS / RHEL

The client configurations are stored in files called manifests, in this file, the user defines system resources and their state, either using Puppet’s declarative language or a Ruby DSL (domain-specific language). Puppet discovers the client systems information via a utility called Facter, and compiles the Puppet manifests into a system-specific catalog containing resources and resource […]

Install and Configure Puppet on CentOS 7 / RHEL 7

This tutorial is for an old version of Puppet Master, some links are broken and may not work expected. A new version is available here: How to Install Puppet 4.x On CentOS 7 / RHEL 7. Puppet is a free and open-source configuration management tool, helps you to centrally deploy and manage the configurations of […]

How To Change Timezone in CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 & Fedora 31/30/29

Changing timezone in CentOS 7 / RHEL 7 and Fedora is a straightforward task. The timedatectl command makes it easier for us to change the timezone in CentOS 7 / RHEL 7. For this demo, we will change the system time zone from EST to IST. Change Timezone Now, first, let’s check the date with […]

How to Install ownCloud 10 on CentOS 7/6 & RHEL 7/6

ownCloud is a web suite that provides cloud storage over the network. Data will be stored on the server and can be downloaded or accessed anytime with a browser or desktop client or smartphone app. ownCloud is based on PHP and an SQLite, MySQL, Oracle or PostgreSQL database, so it can run on all platforms […]