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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

Key vendors and products

Unlike key competitors to Linux, such as Windows by Microsoft, macOS by Apple, Solaris by Oracle, or AIX by IBM, Linux has no single vendor representing it, but rather has quite a few vendors each providing their own products, support, and approach to Linux. This, of course, makes discussing Linux exceedingly difficult because Linux isn't a single thing, but more of a concept: a family of related things that often share many commonalities, but don't necessarily have to.

Describing the Linux family of operating systems is a rather daunting task as it is far more complex than just half a dozen sibling operating systems. In reality, Linux is a complex tree of root and derivative distributions with derivatives of derivatives and operating systems from all levels of the tree gaining and losing prominence over time. Thankfully, we can ignore the far more confusing and convoluted UNIX family tree of which Linux is just one branch! Analyzing the entire...

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