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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

If you have survived to the end of this chapter and are still hanging in with me, congrats, we made it! Storage is a big deal when it comes to systems administration and likely no other area that you manage will you be able to bring as much value to your organization.

We have covered storage basics building on the concepts of block device interfaces, abstraction techniques, filesystems and their interfaces, and used these concepts to investigate multi-device redundancy and how it can be used to build complex and robust data storage, and how storage access across devices can be handled to meet any potential need. My goal here has been to give you the knowledge necessary to think carefully on your own about your storage needs for any given workload, and an understanding of availability technologies and how you can apply them to meet those goals most effectively.

Never again should you see storage as a magic black box or a daunting task that you dread to tackle. Instead...