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Linux Administration Best Practices

You're reading from   Linux Administration Best Practices Practical solutions to approaching the design and management of Linux systems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800568792
Length 404 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Scott Alan Miller Scott Alan Miller
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Understanding the Role of Linux System Administrator
2. Chapter 1: What Is the Role of a System Administrator? FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Choosing Your Distribution and Release Model 4. Section 2: Best Practices for Linux Technologies
5. Chapter 3: System Storage Best Practices 6. Chapter 4: Designing System Deployment Architectures 7. Chapter 5: Patch Management Strategies 8. Chapter 6: Databases 9. Section 3: Approaches to Effective System Administration
10. Chapter 7: Documentation, Monitoring, and Logging Techniques 11. Chapter 8: Improving Administration Maturation with Automation through Scripting and DevOps 12. Chapter 9: Backup and Disaster Recovery Approaches 13. Chapter 10: User and Access Management Strategies 14. Chapter 11: Troubleshooting 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 4: Designing System Deployment Architectures

How we deploy systems determines so much about how those systems will perform and how resilient they will be for years to come. A good understanding of design components and principles is necessary for us to understand in order to approach the design of the platforms that will carry our workloads. Remember, at the end of the day, only the applications running at the very top of the stack matter - everything beneath the applications, whether the operating system, hypervisor, storage, hardware, and others are just tools used to enable the final application-level workloads to do what they need to do best. It is easy to feel that these other components matter individually, but they do not. To put it another way, what matters is the results rather than the path taken to get to the results.

In this chapter, we are going to start by looking at the building blocks of systems (other than storage which we tackled extensively in our last...

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