FreeIPA deployment and operations

Installing FreeIPA servers and keeping them running: prerequisites, containers, platform choice, backups, disaster recovery, health checks, audit logs and ID range repair.

FreeIPA server installation prerequisites

Preparing hosts for FreeIPA: ports to open, time synchronization with chrony, host name and reverse DNS rules, crypto policy, umask and fapolicyd pitfalls, and the packages for DNS and AD trust roles.

Running FreeIPA servers in containers

Running FreeIPA in Podman or Docker with the project's freeipa-server images: choosing the base OS tag, persistent data, registries, rebuild cadence and where containers make sense.

FreeIPA backup and restore

Backing up FreeIPA properly: full versus online data backups, running on a server with every role, storage locations, restore requirements, re-initializing replicas afterwards, and Ansible backup roles.

FreeIPA disaster recovery with VM snapshots

Using VM snapshots to recover FreeIPA after multiple server loss or data corruption: snapshot-only, partially working and new-environment scenarios, and checking replication afterwards.

Monitoring FreeIPA with ipa-healthcheck

Running ipa-healthcheck on every server: what it checks, failures-only output, the systemd timer and log directory, and feeding results into monitoring and alerting.

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