Installing RHEL 8 on Hetzner root servers

Hetzner is a very popular provider for so-called root servers and VPS (Virtual private Servers) located in Germany with data centers in Germany and Finland. They are quite affordable and have good services as well. The default installation image, sorry Hetzner, is crap (i.e. no logical volumes). The rescue system is not only a nice ….Read More

Renew Letsencrypt certificates for Red Hat Satellite 6 and Capsule

Letsencrypt certificates are only valid for just three months. The procedure to renew x509 certificates in Red Hat Satellite 6 is not so straight forward and its even more complex for Capsule servers. In an earlier post I was writing about how to set up a Satellite 6 and a capsule using Letsencrypt certificates. This ….Read More

OpenID and SAML authentication with Keycloak and FreeIPA

Not every web application can handle Kerberos SSO, but some provide OpenID and/or SAML. There is how Keycloak comes into the game. You can use Keycloak to federate users from different sources. This guide shows how to integrate Keyclock and FreeIPA to authenticate users in WordPress. On clients that are enrolled in IPA, this even ….Read More