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The Linux DevOps Handbook

You're reading from  The Linux DevOps Handbook

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803245669
Pages 428 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (2):
Damian Wojsław Damian Wojsław
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Grzegorz Adamowicz Grzegorz Adamowicz
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Linux Basics
2. Chapter 1: Choosing the Right Linux Distribution 3. Chapter 2: Command-Line Basics 4. Chapter 3: Intermediate Linux 5. Chapter 4: Automating with Shell Scripts 6. Part 2: Your Day-to-Day DevOps Tools
7. Chapter 5: Managing Services in Linux 8. Chapter 6: Networking in Linux 9. Chapter 7: Git, Your Doorway to DevOps 10. Chapter 8: Docker Basics 11. Chapter 9: A Deep Dive into Docker 12. Part 3: DevOps Cloud Toolkit
13. Chapter 10: Monitoring, Tracing, and Distributed Logging 14. Chapter 11: Using Ansible for Configuration as Code 15. Chapter 12: Leveraging Infrastructure as Code 16. Chapter 13: CI/CD with Terraform, GitHub, and Atlantis 17. Chapter 14: Avoiding Pitfalls in DevOps 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Understanding Linux services in detail

Unless you are running some kind of low-level embedded device on your desktop—and we strongly doubt it—your operating system manages a multitude of tasks to create a comfortable and productive environment for you. Be it Mac OS X, Linux, Windows, or FreeBSD, they all run a multitude of background programs that together provide a useful system. The same goes for server flavors of those operating systems. A background program or background process (in Unix and Linux called, fluffily, a daemon) means a program that is not attached to any input (keyboard, mouse, etc.) or output (monitor, terminal, etc.). This way, they can start working even when no one is logged in to the system and keep working when the user logs out. They can also run under the privileges of a user who can never log in to the system, making their execution much safer.

The number of services running on your Linux system will, in large part, depend on the distribution...

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