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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

Summary

In this chapter, we introduced you to cloud computing by showing you some of the most important concepts, tools, and solutions used. This should be enough for you to start learning about cloud technologies. This subject is very large, complex, and intimidating.

We talked about cloud standards, an important and largely overlooked subject, and about the main cloud types and services. You now have an idea what each as-a-service solution means and what the main differences are between them. You know what the most important solutions are and how they are provided by the main players in this field: Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. We introduced you to container orchestration with Kubernetes, and you know what OpenStack is and how it works. You learned about APIs and minimal container-specialized operating systems and about the DevOps culture, microservices, and infrastructure automation tools. You learned a lot in this chapter, but keep in mind that all these subjects have only...