Sign In Start Free Trial
Account

Add to playlist

Create a Playlist

Modal Close icon
You need to login to use this feature.
  • Book Overview & Buying Mastering Linux Administration
  • Table Of Contents Toc
Mastering Linux Administration

Mastering Linux Administration

By : Alexandru Calcatinge, Julian Balog
4.4 (15)
close
close
Mastering Linux Administration

Mastering Linux Administration

4.4 (15)
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)
close
close
1
Section 1: Linux Basic Administration
7
Section 2: Advanced Linux Server Administration
13
Section 3: Cloud Administration

Introducing cloud management tools

Today's software development and deployment relies on a plethora of physical systems and VMs. Managing all the related environments for development, testing, and production is a tedious task and involves the use of automated tools. The most widely used solutions for cloud infrastructure management are tools such as Ansible, Puppet, and Chef Infra. All these configuration management tools are powerful and reliable, and we will reserve Chapter 15, Infrastructure and Automation with Ansible, to teach you how to use only one of them: Ansible. Nevertheless, we will briefly introduce you to all of them in this section.

Ansible is an open source project currently owned by Red Hat. It is considered a simple automation tool, used for diverse actions such as application deployment, configuration management, cloud provisioning, and service orchestration. It was developed in Python and uses the concept of nodes to define categories of systems, with a...

CONTINUE READING
83
Tech Concepts
36
Programming languages
73
Tech Tools
Icon Unlimited access to the largest independent learning library in tech of over 8,000 expert-authored tech books and videos.
Icon Innovative learning tools, including AI book assistants, code context explainers, and text-to-speech.
Icon 50+ new titles added per month and exclusive early access to books as they are being written.
Mastering Linux Administration
notes
bookmark Notes and Bookmarks search Search in title playlist Add to playlist download Download options font-size Font size

Change the font size

margin-width Margin width

Change margin width

day-mode Day/Sepia/Night Modes

Change background colour

Close icon Search
Country selected

Close icon Your notes and bookmarks

Confirmation

Modal Close icon
claim successful

Buy this book with your credits?

Modal Close icon
Are you sure you want to buy this book with one of your credits?
Close
YES, BUY

Submit Your Feedback

Modal Close icon
Modal Close icon
Modal Close icon