Technical requirements
Although either of your virtual machines will work equally well for this, all you need is a text-mode virtual machine, so there's no need to fire up the Alma desktop virtual machine if you don't want to. Toward the end of the chapter, we'll be working with some shell scripts. If you don't want to type them in yourself, simply download them from our Git repository.
Check out the following link to see the Code in Action video: https://bit.ly/3G6nbkD
Note
Throughout this book, I've been using AlmaLinux 8 as a replacement for the soon-to-be discontinued CentOS 8. (Of course, depending upon when you're reading this, CentOS 8 may have already been discontinued.)
A few days before I started writing this chapter, the stable release of Rocky Linux 8 finally became available. Using it is the same as using AlmaLinux, or any other RHEL 8 clone for that matter. However, if security is your thing, Rocky does have one huge advantage...