Installation best practices
Red Hat Enterprise Linux installations have many options you can choose from, and what you choose should be tailored for your specific use case. However, some common recommendations apply. Let's look at the most common types.
The first type is blueprints:
- Standardize the core installation and create a blueprint for it:
- This blueprint shall be minimal enough to serve as the base for all other blueprints and deployments.
- Build a set of blueprints for common cases when needed:
- Try to use an automation platform to build extended cases (that is, Ansible).
- Try to make the cases modular (that is, App Server; database blueprints can be combined into one single machine).
- Be aware of the requirements you must apply to your templated blueprints and adapt to the environments you will use.
The second type is software:
- The less software that's installed, the smaller the attack surface. Try to keep servers with the minimal set...
