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Linux Administration Best Practices

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Product type Book

Published in Mar 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800568792

Pages 404 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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System Administration

Author (1):

Scott Alan Miller

Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Understanding the Role of Linux System Administrator

2. Chapter 1: What Is the Role of a System Administrator?

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

Summary

In this chapter we have looked at why automation is important. We investigated how we should approach automation and where to look to get started. We discussed maturity modeling. We delved into the rather complex topics of state machines and infrastructure as code. And finally we tackled actual tools that you can download and learn today to take your coding to a totally different level, entirely.

In our next chapter we are going to be going into one of the absolutely most important, and most commonly avoided, topics in system administration: backups and disaster recovery. Do not try to skip over this coming chapter, if there is one thing that we need to get right in administration, it is our ability to avoid or recovery from a disaster.

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Authors (1)

Scott Alan Miller

Scott Alan Miller has more than thirty years of experience in IT and software engineering having worked in companies of all sizes, from the smallest firms to the largest companies and governments, and in all types across nearly every type of industry with specialization in investment banking and small business. Scott has been an avid writer for IT magazines and books in both IT and software engineering, has led IT for companies, overseen outsourcing firms, spoken at conferences, worked in both K12 and university programs, contributed heavily to technology forums, and generally been involved in every aspect of the industry. Today Scott provides CIO and architecture services to companies of all sizes through an international consultancy. He also pursues his hobbies including being a hotelier, restaurateur, and photographer.

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