UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, Fifth Edition is today’s definitive guide to installing, configuring and maintaining any Unix or Linux system – including the systems that provide core Internet and cloud infrastructure. Now fully updated for today’s Linux distributions and cloud environments, it details best practices for every facet of system administration, including storage management, network design and administration, web hosting and scale-out, automation, configuration management, performance analysis, virtualization, DNS, security, management of IT service organizations and much more. For modern system and network administrators, this edition contains indispensable new coverage of cloud deployments, continuous delivery, Docker and other containerization solutions and much more.
Feature:
1. Covers today's hottest sysadmin topics, including cloud computing, containerization and continuous delivery
2. Addresses storage management, network design/administration, web hosting, automation, configuration management, performance analysis, virtualization, DNS, security and more
3. Fully updated for latest versions of all major Linux distributions
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Where to Start
Chapter 2: Booting and System Management Daemons
Chapter 3: Access Control and User Management
Chapter 4: Process Control
Chapter 5: The File system
Chapter 6: Scripting and the Shell
Chapter 7: Logging, Drivers and Kernel
Chapter 8: Printing Section two: Networking
Chapter 9: TCP/IP, IP Routing and DNS
Chapter 10: Single Sign-On
Chapter 11: Electronic Mail
Chapter 12: Web Hosting Section three: Storage
Chapter 13: Storage, Network File System and SMB Section Four: Operations
Chapter 14: Configuration Management, Virtualization and Continuous Integration
Chapter 15: Containers
Chapter 16: Security
Chapter 17: Monitoring and Performance Analysis
Chapter 18: Software Installation and Management
Chapter 19: Cloud Computing (Online)
Chapter 20: Physical Networking (Online)
Chapter 21: Data Center Basics (Online)
Chapter 22: Methodology, Policy and Politics (Online).
