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Deploy, secure, and maintain your Linux system in the best possible way

Discover best practices to implement core system administration tasks in Linux

Explore real-world decisions, tasks, and solutions involved in Linux system administration

Description

Linux is a well-known, open source Unix-family operating system that is the most widely used OS today. Linux looks set for a bright future for decades to come, but system administration is rarely studied beyond learning rote tasks or following vendor guidelines. To truly excel at Linux administration, you need to understand how these systems work and learn to make strategic decisions regarding them. Linux Administration Best Practices helps you to explore best practices for efficiently administering Linux systems and servers. This Linux book covers a wide variety of topics from installation and deployment through to managing permissions, with each topic beginning with an overview of the key concepts followed by practical examples of best practices and solutions. You'll find out how to approach system administration, Linux, and IT in general, put technology into proper business context, and rethink your approach to technical decision making. Finally, the book concludes by helping you to understand best practices for troubleshooting Linux systems and servers that'll enable you to grow in your career as well as in any aspect of IT and business. By the end of this Linux administration book, you'll have gained the knowledge needed to take your Linux administration skills to the next level.

Who is this book for?

This book is for anyone looking to fully understand the role and practices of being a professional system administrator, as well as for system engineers, system administrators, and anyone in IT or management who wants to understand the administration career path. The book assumes a basic understanding of Linux, including the command line, and an understanding of how to research individual tasks. Basic working knowledge of Linux systems and servers is expected.

What you will learn

Find out how to conceptualize the system administrator role

Understand the key values of risk assessment in administration

Apply technical skills to the IT business context

Discover best practices for working with Linux specific system technologies

Understand the reasoning behind system administration best practices

Develop out-of-the-box thinking for everything from reboots to backups to triage

Prioritize, triage, and plan for disasters and recoveries

Discover the psychology behind administration duties

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Charles Apr 27, 2024

This is a valuable book, and I'm fortunate to have it.

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Mary J Oct 27, 2022

This is definitely a best practices book. There's no walking you through tasks here, this is all about understanding what needs to be done, why, and how to think about it so that you can make good decisions and explain your decisions. This is a book for administrators who need to work in a business and want the ability to defend decisions and explain them to management. Also a good book for management who want to understand, without getting stuck in the weeds, what their IT team is supposed to be doing and how their team should be thinking.

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Brad S Jun 04, 2022

This isn't the book for you if you have limited experience with Linux. I don't think this is a practical how-to guide but more of a theoretical/philosophical guide on how one should approach Linux Administration. As someone who has experience working with Linux, but is mostly self-taught, I've found this book to be very useful as a check for what I'm doing right or wrong, and what aspects of Linux I haven't even touched yet.

CCWTechnology Sep 20, 2022

I am more than half way done with the book so far and love it. Some of the topics seemed very intimating to me. However the way it's explained makes it much easier to understand.I am still a long way from being confident in my Linix administration skills, but I plan to finish this book and re-read it in a couple of months again.The author gives real world examples to explain complex topics. It makes it relatable for me. I highly recommend this for anyone who is, or wants to be, a Linux admin.

Scott A. Miller Oct 27, 2022

I like this book because it provides a guide to understanding and applying best practices to any Linux system. It shows how and why we do things a certain way, and when to consider breaking the rules. There are command references online everywhere that are constantly updated, this doesn't attempt to pointlessly cover that ground again. The analogies work great to put difficult concepts into perspective. I would recommend this not just to Linux administrators, but any administrator as these concepts are almost entirely universal. It's good for IT professionals at any level, including those looking to understand how to hire administrators and how to look at their thought processes.

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