What this book covers
Chapter 1, Advanced User Management, teaches you how to manage users and groups on CentOS 7 to get a better understanding of how it is organized.
Chapter 2, Security, shows the best practices to secure your CentOS 7 and some of its valuable services from many attacks that could disable the services or expose some critical data.
Chapter 3, Linux for Different Purposes, enumerates and introduces a step-by-step tutorial on how to set up a list of very useful services that your computer infrastructure should have.
Chapter 4, Mail Server with Postfix, introduces you to Postfix as a common open source mail server to have it installed and configured for advanced usage.
Chapter 5, Monitoring and Logging, monitors your infrastructure and follows your machine's issues via user-friendly monitoring and logging tools.
Chapter 6, Virtualization, initiates your virtual environment and explores the possibilities and benefits all the virtual technologies can offer.
Chapter 7, Cloud Computing, explores Cloud computing by building your own Cloud environment using OpenStack and its amazing components.
Chapter 8, Configuration Management, takes your infrastructure to an advanced level where everything runs on configuration management using Puppet, as it is one of the most famous configuration management tools in this field.
Chapter 9, Some Additional Tricks and Tools, teaches you the small tricks and tools that can make your life easier when administrating the CentOS 7 server for any use.
