Storage Management in RHEL/CentOS made Simpler (CLI Tools)
- Best Practices & Patterns, Linux Basics, System Administration, Web Servers
- June 9, 2025

Automating OS installations can save time and ensure consistency, especially when deploying multiple virtual machines. Kickstart is a tool from Red Hat that allows you to automate the installation of RHEL and its derivatives by providing a file with answers to all the installation prompts. In this guide, we’ll walk through a beginner-friendly step-by-step process to automate the installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and CentOS Stream 9 on KVM using Kickstart. We assume you already have KVM (via libvirt/QEMU) installed and configured on your host system.
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Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes (RHACM) is a powerful tool that lets you manage multiple OpenShift and Kubernetes clusters from one place. In this beginner-friendly guide, we will walk through installing RHACM version 2.4.x (or higher) on a bare metal OpenShift cluster using the OperatorHub, and then importing an existing cluster for management. The steps are straightforward and use the OpenShift web console for ease of use
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This guide shows how to install and run DeepSeek on Ubuntu or RHEL/CentOS using the simplest methods (Docker or prebuilt binaries). You’ll learn to download the model, run a prompt, and verify output.
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Microsoft has just announced a milestone: the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is now open-source. At Build 2025, the company confirmed that the WSL codebase has been published on GitHub, allowing anyone to download, build, and modify it. In the official announcement, Microsoft wrote “the code that powers WSL is now available on GitHub … and open sourced to the community”.
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RHEL and CentOS provide powerful command-line tools for disk and storage management. To get started, identify existing disks and partitions using commands like lsblk (list block devices) or fdisk -l. For example, lsblk displays all disks and partitions in a clear tree view. The fdisk -l command reports disk sizes and partition tables; e.g., it might show a 30 GiB /dev/sda disk with /dev/sda2 marked as an LVM partition.
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Shodan is a powerful search engine designed to find internet-connected devices across the globe. It goes beyond conventional search engines by enabling the discovery of specific hardware and software configurations. This guide covers installing and effectively using Shodan’s Command-Line Interface (CLI) on Linux systems including Debian-based (like Ubuntu) and CentOS/RHEL.
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