Deploying the ELK Stack the Right Way
Free guide: deploy a production-ready ELK stack on Rocky Linux 9 with Elasticsearch, Kibana SSL, Logstash, Filebeat, ILM retention, and SELinux enforcing.
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Free guide: deploy a production-ready ELK stack on Rocky Linux 9 with Elasticsearch, Kibana SSL, Logstash, Filebeat, ILM retention, and SELinux enforcing.
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6 Ansible roles that deploy a production-ready Rundeck instance in ~10 minutes. Includes site.yml (full deployment), node-setup.yml (managed node prep), verify.yml (10 health checks), smoke-test.yml (deep functional validation). All config in group_vars/all.yml. Idempotent, re-runnable, SELinux stays enforcing.
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View on Payhip7 Ansible roles that deploy a production-ready local LLM stack in ~15 minutes: Ollama, Open WebUI, nginx SSL reverse proxy, Prometheus + Grafana monitoring, NVIDIA GPU passthrough, fail2ban, automated backups. All config in group_vars/all.yml. Idempotent, re-runnable, SELinux stays enforcing.
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View on PayhipProduction-ready Ansible playbooks that deploy a 3-node Elasticsearch cluster, Kibana with Apache SSL, Logstash pipelines, Filebeat log shipping, ILM retention policies, and transport TLS — all with SELinux enforcing. Full deployment in ~20 minutes.
View on PayhipThe complete 9-chapter guide in PDF and Markdown formats. Covers Elasticsearch clustering, Kibana, Logstash, Filebeat, ILM, troubleshooting, and quick reference — all on Rocky Linux 9.
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