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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Administration - Second Edition

By : Pablo Iranzo Gómez, Pedro Ibáñez Requena, Miguel Pérez Colino, Scott McCarty
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Book Image

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Administration - Second Edition

2 (2)
By: Pablo Iranzo Gómez, Pedro Ibáñez Requena, Miguel Pérez Colino, Scott McCarty

Overview of this book

With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 becoming the standard for enterprise Linux used from data centers to the cloud, Linux administration skills are in high demand. With this book, you’ll learn how to deploy, access, tweak, and improve enterprise services on any system on any cloud running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Throughout the book, you’ll get to grips with essential tasks such as configuring and maintaining systems, including software installation, updates, and core services. You’ll also understand how to configure the local storage using partitions and logical volumes, as well as assign and deduplicate storage. You’ll learn how to deploy systems while also making them secure and reliable. This book provides a base for users who plan to become full-time Linux system administrators by presenting key command-line concepts and enterprise-level tools, along with essential tools for handling files, directories, command-line environments, and documentation for creating simple shell scripts or running commands. With the help of command line examples and practical tips, you’ll learn by doing and save yourself a lot of time. By the end of the book, you’ll have gained the confidence to manage the filesystem, users, storage, network connectivity, security, and software in RHEL 9 systems on any footprint.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Systems Administration – Software, User, Network, and Services Management
9
Part 2 – Security with SSH, SELinux, a Firewall, and System Permissions
14
Part 3 – Resource Administration – Storage, Boot Process, Tuning, and Containers
21
Part 4 – Practical Exercises

Installation best practices

RHEL installations have many options you can choose from, and what you choose should be tailored for your specific use case. However, some common recommendations apply. Let’s look at the most common types.

The first type is blueprints. Here’s how you can use them:

  • Standardize the core installation and create a blueprint for it:
    • This blueprint will be minimal enough to serve as the base for all other blueprints and deployments.
  • Build a set of blueprints for common cases when needed:
    • Try to use an automation platform to build extended cases (that is, Ansible).
    • Try to make the cases modular (that is, an app server; database blueprints can be combined into one single machine).
    • Be aware of the requirements you must apply to your templated blueprints and adapt to the environments you will use.

The second type is software. Here are some guidelines regarding this:

  • The less software that’s installed, the smaller the...