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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Essentials
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Essentials
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Overview of this book
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is one of the most secure and dependable operating systems available. For this reason, the ambitious system or network engineer will find a working knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise 8 to be an invaluable advantage in their respective fields.
This book, now updated for RHEL 8.1, begins with a history of Red Enterprise Linux and its installation. You will be virtually perform remote system administration tasks with cockpit web interface and write shell scripts to maintain server-based systems without desktop installation. Then, you will set up a firewall system using a secure shell and enable remote access to Gnome desktop environment with virtual network computing (VNC). You’ll share files between the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8) and Windows System using Samba client and NFS. You will also run multiple guest operating systems using virtualization and Linux containers, and host websites using RHEL 8 by installing an Apache web server. Finally, you will create logical disks using logical volume management and implement swap space to maintain the performance of a RHEL 8 system.
By the end of this book, you will be armed with the skills and knowledge to install the RHEL 8 operating system and use it expertly.
Table of Contents (32 chapters)
2. A Brief History of Red Hat Linux
3. Installing RHEL 8 on a Clean Disk Drive
4. Dual Booting RHEL 8 with Windows
5. Allocating Windows Disk Partitions to RHEL 8
6. A Guided Tour of the GNOME 3 Desktop
7. An Overview of the RHEL 8 Cockpit Web Interface
8. Using the Bash Shell on RHEL 8
9. Managing RHEL 8 Users and Groups
10. Understanding RHEL 8 Software Installation and Management
11. Configuring RHEL 8 systemd Units
12. RHEL 8 Network Management
13. Basic RHEL 8 Firewall Configuration with firewalld
14. Configuring SSH Key-based Authentication on RHEL 8
15. RHEL 8 Remote Desktop Access with VNC
16. Displaying RHEL 8 Applications Remotely (X11 Forwarding)
17. Using NFS to Share RHEL 8 Files with Remote Systems
18. Sharing Files between RHEL 8 and Windows Systems with Samba
19. An Overview of Virtualization Techniques
20. Installing KVM Virtualization on RHEL 8
21. Creating KVM Virtual Machines using Cockpit and virt-manager
22. Creating KVM Virtual Machines with virt-install and virsh
23. Creating a RHEL 8 KVM Networked Bridge Interface
24. Managing KVM using the virsh Command-Line Tool
25. An Introduction to Linux Containers
26. Working with Containers on RHEL 8
27. Setting Up a RHEL 8 Web Server
28. Configuring a RHEL 8 Postfix Email Server
29. Adding a New Disk Drive to a RHEL 8 System
30. Adding a New Disk to a RHEL 8 Volume Group and Logical Volume
31. Adding and Managing RHEL 8 Swap Space
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