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Mastering Linux Administration

By : Alexandru Calcatinge, Julian Balog
Book Image

Mastering Linux Administration

By: Alexandru Calcatinge, Julian Balog

Overview of this book

Linux plays a significant role in modern data center management and provides great versatility in deploying and managing your workloads on-premises and in the cloud. This book covers the important topics you need to know about for your everyday Linux administration tasks. The book starts by helping you understand the Linux command line and how to work with files, packages, and filesystems. You'll then begin administering network services and hardening security, and learn about cloud computing, containers, and orchestration. Once you've learned how to work with the command line, you'll explore the essential Linux commands for managing users, processes, and daemons and discover how to secure your Linux environment using application security frameworks and firewall managers. As you advance through the chapters, you'll work with containers, hypervisors, virtual machines, Ansible, and Kubernetes. You'll also learn how to deploy Linux to the cloud using AWS and Azure. By the end of this Linux book, you'll be well-versed with Linux and have mastered everyday administrative tasks using workflows spanning from on-premises to the cloud. If you also find yourself adopting DevOps practices in the process, we'll consider our mission accomplished.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Linux Basic Administration
7
Section 2: Advanced Linux Server Administration
13
Section 3: Cloud Administration

Introducing AppArmor

AppArmor is an LSM based on the MAC model that confines applications to a limited set of resources. AppArmor uses an ACM based on security profiles that have been loaded into the kernel. Each profile contains a collection of rules for accessing various system resources. AppArmor can be configured to either enforce access control or just complain about access control violations.

AppArmor proactively protects applications and operating system resources from internal and external threats, including zero-day attacks, by preventing both known and unknown vulnerabilities from being exploited.

AppArmor has been built into the mainline Linux kernel since version 2.6.36 and is currently shipped with Ubuntu, Debian, OpenSUSE, and similar distributions.

In the following sections. we'll use an Ubuntu 20.04 environment to showcase a few practical examples with AppArmor. Most of the related command-line utilities will work the same on any platform with AppArmor...