What this book covers

The book is divided into multiple chapters, covering details of specific tasks.

Chapter 1, Managing Users and Groups, covers common user management tasks such as adding or removing user accounts, creating separate groups, assigning access rights, and setting user-level resource limits.

Chapter 2, Networking, explore the various network management functions, including network configuration, setting up DNS and DHCP servers, installing network proxy, and VPN setup. It also includes performance tuning tips and firewall setup.

Chapter 3, Working with Web Servers, provides a detailed configuration of web servers. This chapter covers both Apache and Nginx. You will also find some advance topics such as reverse proxy and load balancing using Nginx.

Chapter 4, Working with Mail Servers, explains the installation and configuration of your e-mail server.

Chapter 5, Handling Databases, discusses the popular relational database server, MySQL. It also covers MongoDB as a NoSQL database system, which is quite a hot technology in recent days.

Chapter 6, Network Storage, explains how to set up the good old Samba server along with FTP and Rsync details. Additionally, it includes the basics of NFS.

Chapter 7, Cloud Computing, includes details on virtualization with the Ubuntu server and some advance tools from Ubuntu to set up your own cloud system with OpenStack and Juju.

Chapter 8, Working with Containers, introduces Linux containers (LXC) and a container management tool by Ubuntu, LXD. This chapter also covers another hot topic, Docker.

Chapter 9, Streaming with Ampache, helps you to set up your own streaming server. We will take a quick look at Ampache, an open source web application for media streaming.

Chapter 10, Communication Server with XMPP, covers the installation of XMPP-based chat server, Ejabberd.

Chapter 11, Git Hosting, covers basic work flow of version control system Git and an open source web-based repository management tool GitLab.

Chapter 12, Collaboration Tools, explores more open source tools for your team and also covers the various tools to help your team stay connected.

Chapter 13, Performance Monitoring, introduces various monitoring tools that can help you optimize the performance of your Ubuntu server.

Chapter 14, Centralized Authentication Service, saves some efforts by introducing LDAP. This chapter covers the LDAP-based centralized authentication and authorization.