Install packages on both nodes

sudo yum install corosync pcs pacemaker maxscale

Set the password for the hacluster user [both nodes]

sudo passwd hacluster

Start the pcs daemon service [both nodes]

sudo systemctl start pcsd

Authenticate the cluster

sudo pcs cluster auth node01.domain.local node02.domain.local

Create cluster

SSH Security Best Practices

On file /etc/ssh/sshd_config:

1. Disable Root Logins

Best: PermitRootLogin no
Good: PermitRootLogin without-password (requires PubkeyAuthentication yes)

Install RabbitMQ on CentOS 7

sudo yum -y install epel-release
sudo yum -y update

Install Erlang

Download repository

wget http://packages.erlang-solutions.com/erlang-solutions-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

Add repository

sudo rpm -Uvh erlang-solutions-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

Install erlang and dependencies

sudo yum -y install erlang socat logrotate

Install RabbitMQ

Download RabbitMQ package

This is helpful when you don't want to disable Selinux and need to run external program like wkhtmltopdf via apache on selinux enabled. Run the following commands from the terminal. (This has been tested in CentOS 7)

Allow Execution

setsebool httpd_execmem on

Change a dirs security context if the program writes to a file

chcon -R -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t dir

This is mostly a transcription of the process from the CentOS/RHEL ZoL installation manual.

Install the repo file

Add the ZFSonLinux repo and verify the fingerprint.

Note — manual fingerprint verification is atypical but we'll do it anyway just for kicks.

install certbot

  sudo yum install epel-release
  sudo yum update
  sudo yum install certbot

install nginx

  sudo yum install nginx
  sudo systemctl start nginx

config firewall

if firewall exist on centos do :

Installing mailx

yum -y update

yum install -y mailx

We can now start sending e-mails using

create a symbolic link

ln -s /bin/mailx /bin/mail

Set an External SMTP Server to Relay E-Mails

vi /etc/mail.rc

edit

Ubuntu

I. Install JDK

yum install java-1.7.0-openjdk

II. Install & Configure ElasticSearch

Add repository

rpm --import http://packages.elasticsearch.org/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch
cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/elasticsearch.repo <<EOF
[elasticsearch-1.3]
name=Elasticsearch repository for 1.3.x packages
baseurl=http://packages.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/1.3/centos
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://packages.elasticsearch.org/GPG-KEY-elasticsearch
enabled=1
EOF

Install ElasticSearch

Installing Kerberos on Redhat 7

This installation is going to require 2 servers one acts as kerberos KDC server and the other machine is going to be client. Lets assume the FQDN's are (here cw.com is the domain name, make a note of the domain name here): * Kerberos KDC Server: kdc.cw.com * Kerberos Client: kclient.cw.com