Databases
Install Valkey on FreeBSD 15 (Redis Fork)
When Redis changed its license to RSAL in 2024, the Linux Foundation forked it as Valkey. FreeBSD’s pkg…
Author
Mercy Kemei
FreeBSD
Install Zabbix 7.0 LTS Server on FreeBSD 15
Zabbix has one of the strongest pkg footprints on FreeBSD. While Linux users wrestle with repo keys and…
Linux Tutorials
How To Configure AppArmor on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
AppArmor has been Ubuntu’s default Mandatory Access Control layer for over a decade, and on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS…
Linux Tutorials
How To Install ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Centralized logging stops being a luxury the moment you run more than a couple of servers. Tailing files…
How To
Install Prometheus on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Prometheus is the monitoring backbone of most Kubernetes and cloud-native stacks. On Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with kernel 7.0,…
Containers
Install Docker Compose on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Docker Compose v2 ships as a plugin with Docker CE. No separate binary to download, no Python dependency…
How To
Install LEMP Stack on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Nginx, MariaDB, PHP 8.5)
Most production web stacks on Ubuntu run Nginx over Apache these days. Nginx handles static content and reverse…
How To
Upgrade Ubuntu 24.04 to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Step by Step)
Upgrading from Ubuntu 24.04 to 26.04 takes about 15 minutes on a decent connection. The process replaces 700+…
Databases
Install PostgreSQL 18 on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon)
Ubuntu 26.04 ships PostgreSQL 18 in its default repositories. No third-party repos, no manual compilation. A single apt…
How To
Active Directory Authentication for Kubernetes kubectl
Managing Kubernetes access for teams that already use Active Directory (AD) or LDAP is a common challenge. Instead…
Containers
Forward Kubernetes Logs to Elasticsearch (ELK) using Fluentbit
Fluent bit is an open source, light-weight log processing and forwarding service. Fluent bit allows to collect logs,…
How To
Send Logs to Splunk on Kubernetes using Splunk Forwarder
Logging is a useful mechanism for both application developers and cluster administrators. It helps with monitoring and troubleshooting…