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Linux Administration Cookbook

You're reading from   Linux Administration Cookbook Insightful recipes to work with system administration tasks on Linux

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789342529
Length 826 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Adam K. Dean Adam K. Dean
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction and Environment Setup FREE CHAPTER 2. Remote Administration with SSH 3. Networking and Firewalls 4. Services and Daemons 5. Hardware and Disks 6. Security, Updating, and Package Management 7. Monitoring and Logging 8. Permissions, SELinux, and AppArmor 9. Containers and Virtualization 10. Git, Configuration Management, and Infrastructure as Code 11. Web Servers, Databases, and Mail Servers 12. Troubleshooting and Workplace Diplomacy 13. BSDs, Solaris, Windows, IaaS and PaaS, and DevOps 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introduction

When I was approached to write this book, I was initially asked to compose twelve chapters on the Linux system and modern administration. I now wish I'd agreed to that initial pitch, but instead I brazenly suggested a thirteenth chapter. What a fool I was.

So here we are, the ultimate chapter in this slog of a read (sorry, I'm so sorry), and it's all about the other systems in the computing world that you're going to need to know, because unfortunately, modern computing and IT infrastructure is frequently a hodgepodge of trends and antiques, in the form of Windows, Linux, and the mesh that goes in between.

We're going to look at the BSDs briefly, because they're probably the closest you can get to "real" Unix in this day and age, and they're also close enough to Linux that there's BSD users out there who get viscerally...

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