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Linux Administration Cookbook

By : Adam K. Dean
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Linux Administration Cookbook

By: Adam K. Dean

Overview of this book

Linux is one of the most widely used operating systems among system administrators,and even modern application and server development is heavily reliant on the Linux platform. The Linux Administration Cookbook is your go-to guide to get started on your Linux journey. It will help you understand what that strange little server is doing in the corner of your office, what the mysterious virtual machine languishing in Azure is crunching through, what that circuit-board-like thing is doing under your office TV, and why the LEDs on it are blinking rapidly. This book will get you started with administering Linux, giving you the knowledge and tools you need to troubleshoot day-to-day problems, ranging from a Raspberry Pi to a server in Azure, while giving you a good understanding of the fundamentals of how GNU/Linux works. Through the course of the book, you’ll install and configure a system, while the author regales you with errors and anecdotes from his vast experience as a data center hardware engineer, systems administrator, and DevOps consultant. By the end of the book, you will have gained practical knowledge of Linux, which will serve as a bedrock for learning Linux administration and aid you in your Linux journey.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Automating updates

In this section, we will use the Vagrantfile that was used in part of the first section.

Something of a slur, "automatic updating" is a sticky subject for a lot of system administrators, because historically, it was frequently the case that updates would brick a system.

This is less and less likely these days, and there are ways you can automate updates on your boxes without worry (though I still wouldn't do this in production, personally).

We will also discuss programmatically rebuilding systems.

How to do it...

Jump into each of your boxes in turn, in this section.

It is important to note that you might not want to automatically install updates at all, especially if you are in an environment...