You're reading from Mastering Linux Administration A comprehensive guide to installing, configuring, and maintaining Linux systems in the modern data center

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789954272

Length 772 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Linux

Concepts

System Administration

Authors (2):

Alexandru Calcatinge

Julian Balog

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Linux Basic Administration

2. Chapter 1: Installing Linux FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: The Linux Filesystem

4. Chapter 3: Linux Software Management

5. Chapter 4: Managing Users and Groups

6. Chapter 5: Working with Processes, Daemons, and Signals

7. Section 2: Advanced Linux Server Administration

8. Chapter 6: Working with Disks and Filesystems

9. Chapter 7: Networking with Linux

10. Chapter 8: Configuring Linux Servers

11. Chapter 9: Securing Linux

12. Chapter 10: Disaster Recovery, Diagnostics, and Troubleshooting

13. Section 3: Cloud Administration

14. Chapter 11: Working with Containers and Virtual Machines

15. Chapter 12: Cloud Computing Essentials

16. Chapter 13: Deploying to the Cloud with AWS and Azure

17. Chapter 14: Deploying Applications with Kubernetes

18. Chapter 15: Automating Workflows with Ansible

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Introducing IaaS solutions

IaaS is the backbone of cloud computing. It offers on-demand access to resources, such as compute, storage, network, and so on. The CSP uses hypervisors to provide IaaS solutions. In this section, we provide you information about some of the most widely used IaaS solutions available. We will give you details about providers such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines, and Google Compute Engine (GCE) as the big players, and DigitalOcean as a viable solution.

Amazon EC2

The IaaS solution provided by AWS is called Amazon EC2. It provides a good infrastructure solution for anyone, from low-cost compute instances to a high-power graphics processing unit (GPU) for machine learning. AWS was the first provider of IaaS solutions 12 years back and it is doing better than ever, even after the COVID-19 pandemic (https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-top-cloud-providers-of-2021-aws-microsoft-azure-google-cloud-hybrid-saas/).

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