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Mastering Linux Administration

By : Alexandru Calcatinge, Julian Balog
Book Image

Mastering Linux Administration

By: Alexandru Calcatinge, Julian Balog

Overview of this book

Linux plays a significant role in modern data center management and provides great versatility in deploying and managing your workloads on-premises and in the cloud. This book covers the important topics you need to know about for your everyday Linux administration tasks. The book starts by helping you understand the Linux command line and how to work with files, packages, and filesystems. You'll then begin administering network services and hardening security, and learn about cloud computing, containers, and orchestration. Once you've learned how to work with the command line, you'll explore the essential Linux commands for managing users, processes, and daemons and discover how to secure your Linux environment using application security frameworks and firewall managers. As you advance through the chapters, you'll work with containers, hypervisors, virtual machines, Ansible, and Kubernetes. You'll also learn how to deploy Linux to the cloud using AWS and Azure. By the end of this Linux book, you'll be well-versed with Linux and have mastered everyday administrative tasks using workflows spanning from on-premises to the cloud. If you also find yourself adopting DevOps practices in the process, we'll consider our mission accomplished.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Linux Basic Administration
7
Section 2: Advanced Linux Server Administration
13
Section 3: Cloud Administration

Short introduction to OpenStack

OpenStack has been governed by the Open Infrastructure Foundation (OpenInfra Foundation) since October 2020 and offers a set of open source tools that are used for building and administering cloud infrastructures. OpenStack can be used for creating both public and private clouds.

OpenStack is a collection of tools designed to create and manage cloud infrastructures by providing the needed components as a granular model that serves cloud computing-specific services. OpenStack was initially released in 2010 as a joint project between Rackspace and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is written in Python, and is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.

Similar to the virtualization technologies, OpenStack uses a software layer based on specific APIs that abstract the virtual resources.

The latest release of OpenStack is called Victoria and was released in October 2020. It offers the founding cloud infrastructure for bare...