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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

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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

Summary

In this chapter, we have learned about how to log in to a system with user and with root, understanding the basics of permissions and security. We are now also more comfortable using the command line with auto-complete, navigating through the directories and files, packing and unpacking them, redirecting command output and parsing it, and even automating processes with shell scripts. More importantly, we have a way to obtain information on what we are doing (or want to do) available in any RHEL system with the included documentation. These skills are the basis of the upcoming chapters. Don’t hesitate to revisit this chapter if you feel stuck or if your progress is not as fast as you thought.

Now, it is time to extend your knowledge to encompass more advanced topics in the upcoming chapters. In the following chapter, you will be getting used to the tools for regular operations, in which you will review the most common actions taken when managing a system. Enjoy!

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