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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

Chapter 12: Cloud Computing Essentials

In this chapter, you will learn the basics of cloud computing and will be presented with the core foundations of cloud infrastructure technologies. You will learn about the as-a-service solutions such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), and Containers as a Service (CaaS). You will be presented with the basics of cloud standards, Development and Operations (DevOps), continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), and microservices. A base knowledge of the cloud will imply at least a basic introduction to OpenStack, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, and other cloud solutions. By the end of this chapter, we will introduce you to technologies such as Ansible and Kubernetes. This chapter will provide a short and concise theoretical introduction that will be the foundation for the following three cloud- related chapters, which will provide you with important practical knowledge on...