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Linux Administration Best Practices

By : Scott Alan Miller
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Book Image

Linux Administration Best Practices

3.3 (3)
By: Scott Alan Miller

Overview of this book

Linux is a well-known, open source Unix-family operating system that is the most widely used OS today. Linux looks set for a bright future for decades to come, but system administration is rarely studied beyond learning rote tasks or following vendor guidelines. To truly excel at Linux administration, you need to understand how these systems work and learn to make strategic decisions regarding them. Linux Administration Best Practices helps you to explore best practices for efficiently administering Linux systems and servers. This Linux book covers a wide variety of topics from installation and deployment through to managing permissions, with each topic beginning with an overview of the key concepts followed by practical examples of best practices and solutions. You'll find out how to approach system administration, Linux, and IT in general, put technology into proper business context, and rethink your approach to technical decision making. Finally, the book concludes by helping you to understand best practices for troubleshooting Linux systems and servers that'll enable you to grow in your career as well as in any aspect of IT and business. By the end of this Linux administration book, you'll have gained the knowledge needed to take your Linux administration skills to the next level.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Section 1: Understanding the Role of Linux System Administrator
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Section 2: Best Practices for Linux Technologies
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Section 3: Approaches to Effective System Administration

Understanding Linux in production

Linux is used in every aspect of business and production systems today. Simply by being a Linux-based system actually tells us incredibly little about what a device might be doing or how it might be used. Unlike macOS, which essentially guarantees that the use case is either a desktop or a laptop end user device, or Windows Server, which all but assures us that a system is an infrastructure or line of business (LOB) server. Having a system be built on Linux gives us very little to go on when looking to determine the intended use of that system. Linux is used on servers, in virtualization, in desktops, laptops, tablets, routers, firewalls, phones, IoT devices, appliances, and more. Linux is everywhere. And Linux is doing just about everything that there is to do. There are almost no roles that Linux does not cover, at least some of the time.

For the context of a book on Linux Administration, we are going to assume that we are talking about Linux...