Chapter 1, Installation and Configuration, introduces you to the application server platform and provides details about the installation, available server modes, and the management instruments (Web console  and CLI).

Chapter 2, The CLI Management Tool, describes how you can configure and manage your JBoss EAP 7 platform using the CLI, using its auto completion feature, offline mode, and script files.

Chapter 3, Managing EAP in Domain Mode, goes in depth with the application server management using the domain mode, showing how to design advanced domain configurations and handle disaster and recovery scenarios.

Chapter 4, Deploying Applications, explains the different ways you can deploy your applications. Either by CLI, Web console, or filesystem, all a deployment's life cycle is managed by the platform itself and for both standalone and domain mode.

Chapter 5, Load Balancing, is about balancing requests to EAP 7 servers from a Web frontend layer.

Chapter 6, Clustering EAP 7, goes in depth to support and better configure your environment by providing a fault tolerant system with failover capabilities.

Chapter 7, Logging, provides a comprehensive description of the logging services available in the application server, teaching you how to build a scalable logging system.

Chapter 8, Configuring Database Connectivity, explains how to configure a datasource using the CLI. Adding a JDBC driver, defining a connection pool, choosing between an XA and a non-XA Datasource, and hardening the configuration is all described in depth.

Chapter 9, Configuring EAP 7 for Java EE Applications, describes how to configure the services needed for server-side applications through the application server subsystems.

Chapter 10, Messaging Administration, goes in detail about message-oriented middleware and how the JBoss EAP 7 platform can help rely on Apache Artemis as its default implementation.

Chapter 11, Securing the Application Server, discusses securing the application server infrastructure, including the applications running on top of it.

Chapter 12, New Security Features of EAP 7 , is a preview of the upcoming security features available in the EAP 7.1 release and how to centralize security concerns of Web applications with the Red Hat Single Sign-On (SSO) server.

Chapter 13, Using EAP 7 with Docker, shows how to use the Docker technology to provision EAP 7 in the Enterprise.

Chapter 14, Running EAP 7 on the Cloud Using OpenShift, shows how applications leverage the new Red Hat PaaS (based on Docker and Kubernetes) to scale automatically and in any environment.