You're reading from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Administration Master Linux administration skills and prepare for the RHCSA certification exam

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Published in Nov 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800569829

Length 534 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Linux

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System Administration

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Scott McCarty

Pablo Iranzo Gómez

Miguel Pérez Colino

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Systems Administration – Software, User, Network, and Services Management

2. Chapter 1: Installing RHEL8 FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: RHEL8 Advanced Installation Options

4. Chapter 3: Basic Commands and Simple Shell Scripts

5. Chapter 4: Tools for Regular Operations

6. Chapter 5: Securing Systems with Users, Groups, and Permissions

7. Chapter 6: Enabling Network Connectivity

8. Chapter 7: Adding, Patching, and Managing Software

9. Section 2: Security with SSH, SELinux, a Firewall, and System Permissions

10. Chapter 8: Administering Systems Remotely

11. Chapter 9: Securing Network Connectivity with firewalld

12. Chapter 10: Keeping Your System Hardened with SELinux

13. Chapter 11:System Security Profiles with OpenSCAP

14. Section 3: Resource Administration – Storage, Boot Process, Tuning, and Containers

15. Chapter 12: Managing Local Storage and Filesystems

16. Chapter 13: Flexible Storage Management with LVM

17. Chapter 14: Advanced Storage Management with Stratis and VDO

18. Chapter 15: Understanding the Boot Process

19. Chapter 16: Kernel Tuning and Managing Performance Profiles with tuned

20. Chapter 17: Managing Containers with Podman, Buildah, and Skopeo

21. Section 4: Practical Exercises

22. Chapter 18: Practice Exercises – 1

23. Chapter 19: Practice Exercise – 2

24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introduction to containers

Containers provide users with a new way to run software on Linux systems. Containers provide all the dependencies related to a given piece of software, in a consistent redistributable manner. While containers were first made popular by Docker, Google, Red Hat, and many others joined Docker to create a set of open standards called the Open Container Initiative (OCI). The popularity of the OCI standards has facilitated a large ecosystem of tools where users don't have to worry about compatibility between popular container images, registries, and tools. Containers have become standardized in recent years and most major tools follow three standards governed by the OCI, outlined here:

Image specification: Governs how container images are saved on disk
Runtime specification: Specifies how containers are started by communicating with the operating system (in particular, the Linux kernel)
Distribution specification: Governs how images are pushed...

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