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Red Hat Enterprise Linux's sosreport improves the ability to get support. The Azure plugin has been updated with new features for RHEL on Azure.

Reduce SystemTap start up time using the new syscall_any tapset. You can easily instrument all system calls to see what's called and the return values.

How to create an Open Virtual Network (OVN) distributed gateway router and it's advantages in environments such as OpenStack, OpenShift, and RHV.

.Use .NET APIs to portably locate special folders (app and user data/confgiuration) in your cross-platform applications. The Linux behaviour of these APIs are demonstrated.

What you need to know to migrate from Oracle JDK to OpenJDK on RHEL, the impact to developers and ops teams, and solutions to potential challenges.

For times when you can't use ssh-copy-id to add your public key to a server, this article explains how to do it manually and set the correct permissions.

For some SystemTap instrumentation scripts, the startup times are too long. This article describes how to analyze and reduce SystemTap's startup costs for scripts.

How to set up Red Hat Ansible Tower on OpenShift and have it running as a container in minutes. Ansible Tower helps you scale IT automation, manage complex deployments, and improve productivity.

This post shows how to install the latest versions of Node.js on RHEL 8 and RHEL 9

Twice a year, Red Hat distributes new versions of compilers,run times, open source databases, and/ web tools providing developers with access to the latest, stable versions on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Software Collections 3.2 beta adds: Node.js 10, PHP 7.2, Varnish Cache 6.0, MySQL 8.0, NGINX 1.14, Git 2.18 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Get an introduction to Linux virtual interfaces, including commonly used interfaces, when to use them, and how to create them.

Microsoft's decision to make .NET Core open source and cross-platform means it's

This article explores some of the dynamic IP address management issues in Open Virtual Network (OVN), how those have been improved, and what's in store for OVN in future versions of Open vSwitch.

This blog explains the effects of configuring too small a forwarding database (FDB) table for Open vSwitch, how to identify which bridge is suffering from too small an FDB table, and how to configure the FDB table size appropriately. If the FDB table is too small, a lot of ping/ponging in the table can happen, which uses CPU resources.

This article demonstrates the IP address management (IPAM) options in Open Virtual Network (OVN) and how to apply them. Using OVN, you can set up dynamic IP addresses on your logical switches without the need to keep track of assigned addresses in your application.

Podman is an alternative to the Docker command-line interface that lets you run standalone, daemonless containers. See examples of how easy it is to use Podman.

For developers, sudo access can be useful for automating steps in build scripts. Learn how to configure sudo access and enable sudo during system installation.

Everything you need to install Python and related utilities on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, 8, and 9. Includes Python tips and FAQs.

New releases: Red Hat Developer Studio 12 and Container Development Kit 3.5. Learn about the new features and updates to other developer tools for Windows, macOS, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Clang tools and newer versions of GCC can be quite helpful for better warnings and error messages during C/C++ development. This article shows how you can easily install the latest supported Clang 5 and GCC 7 compilers using yum on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It also provides tips for working with software collections.

The most common problem when people are deploying an Open vSwitch with Data Plane Development Kit (OvS-DPDK) solution is that performance is not as expected. Here's how to configure thread affinity, verify that it’s set up correctly, and ensure no other threads are using the CPU cores.

How to debug and avoid out-of-memory issues with Open vSwitch with the Data Plane Development Kit (OvS-DPDK). It explains the situations in which you can run out of memory and shows the relevant log entries, and it also provides tips for further debugging.

If you need to build some Python-based microservices, one way to do it is to install Python in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux virtual machine and use Flask, a microframework that makes building RESTful services easy.