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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 2. Remote Administration with SSH FREE CHAPTER 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

There's a good chance that you'll come across websites at some point in your career as a system administrator or developer.

Websites are these things that exist on the internet, where people go to find stuff (technical description). Most of the web runs on Linux, with segmented and darker corners for Windows et al.

It's typical for a lot of people to start their Linux careers working for either an ISP or a web host of some sort, meaning that a lot of newcomers to the field get thrown into the deep end of having to manage very public websites immediately. This isn't a bad thing, as you tend to learn quickly in environments with a variety of issues, and when you're surrounded by a host of other people who are all experiencing the same frustration day in, day out, it can be quite the learning experience.

That's not to say that everyone...
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