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

Tools

Linux

Concepts

System Administration

Authors (3):

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

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Technical requirements

All the practice exercise in this chapter requires the use of a virtual machine (VM), running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 installed with the base installation. Additionally, new virtual drives will be required for storage operations.

For the exercises, it is assumed you possess the following:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 installed with the base operating system minimal install software selection.
Access to the Red Hat Customer Portal, with an active subscription.
The VM must be expendable. This is because actions performed on it during the exercise might render it unusable and require it to be reinstalled.

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