Block 1 Lab 4 — Archiving & Deploying Config Packages

Scenario

You fixed and validated the httpd configuration on rhel-prod-01 (Lab 3). Now you need to promote it to rhel-prod-02 before this evening’s deployment window. No Ansible. No config management system. The promotion workflow is: package the config directory as a tar archive, transfer it with scp, and extract it cleanly on the remote host.

Objectives

#	Objective
1	Inspect the config directory before packaging it
2	Create a tar.gz archive of the httpd config directory
3	Verify the archive contents without extracting it
4	Transfer the archive to rhel-prod-02 using scp
5	Extract the archive on the remote host and verify
6	Knowledge check

Supported Commands

Command	Purpose
ls [-la] [-lh] [-R] [path]	List directory contents recursively
tar -czf archive.tar.gz path/	Create compressed archive (gzip)
tar -tzf archive.tar.gz	List contents of archive without extracting
tar -xzf archive.tar.gz -C /dest/	Extract archive to destination path
scp file user@host:/path/	Secure copy over SSH
ssh user@host "command"	Run a command on a remote host
du -sh path/	Check archive or directory size
md5sum / sha256sum file	Checksum to verify transfer integrity

tar flag order matters: the archive filename must follow -f directly. A common mistake is putting flags in the wrong order and overwriting the wrong file.

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🌐 Network Topology

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rhel-prod-01

source · 10.0.1.10

scp

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rhel-prod-02

destination · 10.0.1.11

Transfer: idle

archive not created

verified not checked

transfer not sent

extracted not yet

Filesystem Snapshot

rhel-prod-01 — source

📁 /etc/httpd/conf/

📄 httpd.conf

📄 conf.d/ssl.conf

📄 conf.d/vhosts.conf

📦 httpd-conf.tar.gz

rhel-prod-02 — destination

📦 httpd-conf.tar.gz

📁 /etc/httpd/conf/

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[root@rhel-prod-01 ~]#

📋 Tasks & Guide

Lab Information

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