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Linux Administration Best Practices

By : Scott Alan Miller
3.3 (3)
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

Summary

We covered a lot in this chapter and a lot of seemingly unimportant factors that, I believe, tend to actually be pretty important in our roles in system administration. We learned how Linux fits into modern organizations and where it comes from historically which might give us some view into where it is going, as well. We dove into open-source licensing and how software licensing plays a role in how we work with our operating systems.

We took a look at who the big vendors are today and what key products they have on the market. Then we investigated release and support patterns both in general and specifically from the major vendors on the market today. And then we looked at putting all of those factors together to try to make a decision process for picking the best distribution for our workload.

In our next chapter we are going to be leaving behind the ten-thousand-foot views and we will be digging into the very technical world of System Storage Best Practices. This...