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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Administration

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Administration

By : Miguel Pérez Colino, Pablo Iranzo Gómez, Scott McCarty
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Administration

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Administration

4.5 (4)
By: Miguel Pérez Colino, Pablo Iranzo Gómez, Scott McCarty

Overview of this book

Whether in infrastructure or development, as a DevOps or site reliability engineer, Linux skills are now more relevant than ever for any IT job, forming the foundation of understanding the most basic layer of your architecture. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) becoming the most popular choice for enterprises worldwide, achieving the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification will validate your Linux skills to install, configure, and troubleshoot applications and services on RHEL systems. Complete with easy-to-follow tutorial-style content, self-assessment questions, tips, best practices, and practical exercises with detailed solutions, this book covers essential RHEL commands, user and group management, software management, networking fundamentals, and much more. You'll start by learning how to create an RHEL 8 virtual machine and get to grips with essential Linux commands. You'll then understand how to manage users and groups on an RHEL 8 system, install software packages, and configure your network interfaces and firewall. As you advance, the book will help you explore disk partitioning, LVM configuration, Stratis volumes, disk compression with VDO, and container management with Podman, Buildah, and Skopeo. By the end of this book, you'll have covered everything included in the RHCSA EX200 certification and be able to use this book as a handy, on-the-job desktop reference guide. This book and its contents are solely the work of Miguel Pérez Colino, Pablo Iranzo Gómez, and Scott McCarty. The content does not reflect the views of their employer (Red Hat Inc.). This work has no connection to Red Hat, Inc. and is not endorsed or supported by Red Hat, Inc.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
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Section 1: Systems Administration – Software, User, Network, and Services Management
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Section 2: Security with SSH, SELinux, a Firewall, and System Permissions
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Section 3: Resource Administration – Storage, Boot Process, Tuning, and Containers
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Section 4: Practical Exercises

Summary

The Red Hat Certified System Administrator exam is entirely practical, based on real-world experience. The best way to prepare for it is by practicing as much as possible, which is why this book begins by providing access to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL8) and offering alternatives on how to deploy your own virtual machine.

Different scenarios are covered regarding installation. These are the most common ones, and include using a physical machine, a virtual machine, or a cloud instance. In this chapter, we focused on using a virtual machine or a physical one.

When using physical hardware, we will be focusing on the fact that many people like to reuse old hardware, buy second-hand or cheap mini servers, or even use their laptop as the primary installation for their Linux experience.

In the case of virtual machines, we are thinking about the people that want to keep all their work on the same laptop, but without messing with their current operating system (which may not even be Linux). This could also work well with the previous option by having virtual machines on your own mini server.

After this chapter, you are ready to proceed with the rest of the book, having at least an instance or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 available to work with and practice on.

In the next chapter, we will review a number of advanced options, such as using the cloud for RHEL instances, automating the installation, and best practices.

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