Tag Archives: CentOS

Automated Script to install HAProxy 2.8.12 , OpenSSL 3.0.15 and Modsecurity.

So ….. My latest effort has been a bash script that runs on both Ubuntu 22.04 and Alma 8.6 and installs HAProxy 2.8.12, OpenSSL 3.0.15 and Modsecurity. The starting point is a clean build, with latest OS patches installed and no additional packages. This script downloads, extracts and installs the version of OpenSSL 3 andContinue reading “Automated Script to install HAProxy 2.8.12 , OpenSSL 3.0.15 and Modsecurity.”

Installing HAProxy 2.4.7 with ModSecurity on AlmaLinux 8.4

This article is almost identical to my previous post regarding HAProxy on CentOS, but as Centos 8 is going End Of Life at the end of this year I thought I would revisit it on AlmaLinux. I used the 64-Bit minimal ISO that can be found at the appropriate mirror : https://mirrors.almalinux.org/isos/x86_64/8.4.html . By usingContinue reading “Installing HAProxy 2.4.7 with ModSecurity on AlmaLinux 8.4”

CentOS 8 EOL – Which Distro to move to?

CentOS 8 going end of life at the end of 2021 has left many people with a choice to make. Do I stay with an unsupported OS? Do I move to CentOS Stream ? Do I move to a different distro ? Most people use CentOS as it is binary compliant with RHEL, that isContinue reading “CentOS 8 EOL – Which Distro to move to?”