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In environments with limited or no internet access—like secure datacenters or air-gapped systems—managing software packages can be a hassle. That’s where setting up a local YUM repository on your RHEL machine becomes incredibly handy. In this guide, I’ll walk you through the step-by-step process to set up your own local repository server for RHEL 8 and RHEL 9 using httpd (Apache) and createrepo. Let’s dive in! 🏊‍♂️ 1: Download Necessary Packages on a Machine with Internet Before we begin, you’ll need access to a machine that can connect to the internet, just once....

Background If you are like me who wants to try out new tools or test something on Kubernetes, then I have something for you. Yes, you can create a Kubernetes cluster locally using Minikube and Docker, but we’ll be limited to a single-node cluster, which might not suffice for many use cases like testing multi-node scenarios, HA configurations, or distributed applications. In this article, I’ll guide you on how you can create a multi-node local Kubernetes cluster using Kind (Kubernetes in Docker)....