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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Administration

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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At Red Hat, Scott McCarty is a principal product manager for the container subsystem team, which enables key product capabilities in OpenShift Container Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. His focus areas include container runtimes, tools, and images.nScott is a social media start-up veteran, an e-commerce old-timer, and a weathered government research technologist, with experience across a variety of companies and organizations, from seven-person start-ups to 15,000-employee technology companies. This has culminated in a unique perspective on open source software development, delivery, and maintenance.
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Pablo Iranzo Gómez is a software engineer whose Linux exposure began while studying physics, a period during which he was also involved in LUGs and some projects related to HPC clusters and system administration and consultancy. Currently, he is a senior software engineer in Red Hat's SolEng department, focusing on OpenShift, with experience in consulting, cloud technical account management, OpenStack software maintenance in industries such as hospitality, retail, airlines, government, telco, 5G, partners, and IT, covering system administration and automation, virtualization, PaaS, support, the cloud, and so on, having a broad understanding of different views, needs, and risks across the industry. Pablo was born and lives in Valencia, Spain with his family.
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Miguel is an experienced technology enthusiast with a clear orientation towards IT, free/open source software and open standards. His career has grown in the IT field with connections in every direction. From User Support and Teacher; through Systems and Network Administration; to Systems Engineering, Systems Architecture, IT Strategy definition and now as Senior Manager for the Tanzu portfolio to bring Kubernetes closer to customers. He loves designing solutions and tools, making them useful and easy to use.
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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

Technical requirements

It is possible to continue the practice of using the VM created at the beginning of this book in Chapter 1, Installing RHEL8. Any additional packages required for this chapter will be indicated and can be downloaded from https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Red-Hat-Enterprise-Linux-8-Administration.

We will need, for the Understanding Stratis section, the same two disks added in Chapter 13, Flexible Storage Management with LVM, after all the LVM components have been cleaned up from them.

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At Red Hat, Scott McCarty is a principal product manager for the container subsystem team, which enables key product capabilities in OpenShift Container Platform and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. His focus areas include container runtimes, tools, and images. Scott is a social media start-up veteran, an e-commerce old-timer, and a weathered government research technologist, with experience across a variety of companies and organizations, from seven-person start-ups to 15,000-employee technology companies. This has culminated in a unique perspective on open source software development, delivery, and maintenance.
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Pablo Iranzo Gómez is a software engineer whose Linux exposure began while studying physics, a period during which he was also involved in LUGs and some projects related to HPC clusters and system administration and consultancy. Currently, he is a senior software engineer in Red Hat's SolEng department, focusing on OpenShift, with experience in consulting, cloud technical account management, OpenStack software maintenance in industries such as hospitality, retail, airlines, government, telco, 5G, partners, and IT, covering system administration and automation, virtualization, PaaS, support, the cloud, and so on, having a broad understanding of different views, needs, and risks across the industry. Pablo was born and lives in Valencia, Spain with his family.
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