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Linux Administration Cookbook

By : Adam K. Dean
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Linux Administration Cookbook

By: Adam K. Dean

Overview of this book

Linux is one of the most widely used operating systems among system administrators,and even modern application and server development is heavily reliant on the Linux platform. The Linux Administration Cookbook is your go-to guide to get started on your Linux journey. It will help you understand what that strange little server is doing in the corner of your office, what the mysterious virtual machine languishing in Azure is crunching through, what that circuit-board-like thing is doing under your office TV, and why the LEDs on it are blinking rapidly. This book will get you started with administering Linux, giving you the knowledge and tools you need to troubleshoot day-to-day problems, ranging from a Raspberry Pi to a server in Azure, while giving you a good understanding of the fundamentals of how GNU/Linux works. Through the course of the book, you’ll install and configure a system, while the author regales you with errors and anecdotes from his vast experience as a data center hardware engineer, systems administrator, and DevOps consultant. By the end of the book, you will have gained practical knowledge of Linux, which will serve as a bedrock for learning Linux administration and aid you in your Linux journey.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

What is troubleshooting?

Troubleshooting, or debugging (more frequently used for specific software), is the act of trying to work out what's going wrong with a solution right now or what went wrong historically during an incident. That incident can be anything from the entire network going down in a data center, to working out why that one Docker container suddenly decided it was going to bounce itself up and down like a tennis ball.

No software is perfect. If it were, we'd all be out of jobs, and it's because of this simple statement of fact that you will almost inevitably find yourself in a situation at some point in your life where you're faced with a broken system and there's someone screaming at you to fix it.

You can do everything in your power before this point to try to ensure you never experience something such as a production outage, including...