Infrastructure tutorials

Production-grade guides for Linux, servers, security and performance. Copy-paste commands, multi-distro support, written by engineers who run this in production.

monitoring Advanced

Configure Thanos Receiver clustering for high availability and load distribution

Set up Thanos Receiver clustering with hashring configuration to distribute Prometheus remote write traffic across multiple replicas for high availability and scalability.

45 min 4 distros 754 views
hosting Advanced

Configure OpenResty with PostgreSQL connection pooling for database integration

Set up OpenResty with lua-resty-postgres for high-performance database connection pooling. This tutorial covers installation, connection management, health checks, and security hardening for production web applications.

45 min 4 distros 695 views
devops Advanced

Configure SonarQube high availability clustering with PostgreSQL and load balancing

Set up enterprise-grade SonarQube clustering with PostgreSQL database replication, multiple application nodes, and HAProxy load balancing for zero-downtime code quality analysis across distributed teams.

90 min 4 distros 836 views
devops Intermediate

Configure Kubernetes pod disruption budgets for high availability with policy enforcement

Learn to configure PodDisruptionBudget resources in Kubernetes to maintain application availability during voluntary disruptions. This tutorial covers creating disruption budgets, implementing policies for different workload types, and monitoring disruption events with kubectl.

45 min 4 distros 1,457 views
performance Advanced

Optimize Linux RAID configuration for maximum disk performance with mdadm and advanced tuning

Learn how to configure and optimize Linux RAID arrays with mdadm for maximum disk performance. This comprehensive guide covers RAID level selection, advanced mdadm parameters, kernel I/O scheduler optimization, and file system tuning for high-throughput workloads.

45 min 4 distros 2,441 views
databases Advanced

Set up Elasticsearch 8 cross-cluster replication for disaster recovery and high availability

Configure Elasticsearch 8 cross-cluster replication (CCR) to replicate indices across multiple clusters for disaster recovery. This tutorial covers security setup, remote cluster connections, replication policies, and automated failover procedures.

45 min 4 distros 851 views
databases Advanced

Configure MinIO high availability clustering for production with multi-node setup and automatic failover

Set up a production-ready MinIO cluster with multiple nodes, erasure coding, and automatic failover. This tutorial covers distributed mode configuration, load balancing with SSL termination, and health monitoring for enterprise object storage.

45 min 4 distros 1,021 views
devops Advanced

Advanced Nomad job templates and deployment strategies with rolling updates and canary deployments

Master production-grade Nomad job templates with HCL syntax, implement rolling updates with health checks, and deploy advanced blue-green and canary deployment patterns for resilient containerized workloads.

45 min 4 distros 1,162 views
security Advanced

Configure advanced Consul ACL policies for production security hardening

Set up comprehensive Consul Access Control Lists with bootstrap tokens, role-based permissions, and secure inter-node communication for production environments. This tutorial covers ACL system initialization, policy creation, and agent token configuration.

35 min 4 distros 870 views
devops Intermediate

Configure Deno application clustering with load balancing for high availability

Set up Deno application clustering with worker threads and HAProxy load balancing for production-grade high availability deployments. Configure health checks, monitoring, and automatic failover mechanisms.

45 min 4 distros 880 views
security Advanced

Configure SSL encryption and authentication for ClamAV cluster with high availability scanning

Set up a secure ClamAV cluster with SSL/TLS encryption, certificate-based authentication, and load balancing for enterprise-grade antivirus scanning. This tutorial covers SSL certificate generation, encrypted inter-node communication, and HAProxy SSL termination.

45 min 4 distros 868 views
devops Intermediate

Integrate Consul with Kubernetes service discovery and automatic configuration

Set up Consul for dynamic service discovery in Kubernetes clusters with automatic service registration, health checks, and configuration management for microservices orchestration.

45 min 4 distros 705 views

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