Get hands-on recipes to make the most of Ubuntu Server, CentOS 7 Linux Server and RHEL 7 Server
Key Features:
- Get Linux servers up and running in seconds,
- In-depth guide to explore new features and solutions in server administration
- Maintain performance and security of your server solution by deploying expert configuration advice
Book Description:
Linux servers are frequently selected over other server operating systems for their stability, security and flexibility advantages.This Learning Path will teach you how to get up and running with three of the most popular Linux server distros: Ubuntu Server, CentOS 7 Server, and RHEL 7 Server. We will begin with the Ubuntu Server and show you how to make the most of Ubuntu's advanced functionalities. Moving on, we will provide you with all the knowledge that will give you access to the inner workings of the latest CentOS version 7. Finally, touching RHEL 7, we will provide you with solutions to common RHEL 7 Server challenges.This Learning Path combines some of the best that Packt has to offer in one complete, curated package. It includes content from the following Packt products:
1)Ubuntu Server Cookbook
2)CentOS 7 Linux Server Cookbook, Second Edition
3)Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Cookbook
What You Will Learn:
- Set up high performance, scalable, and fault-tolerant back ends with web and database servers
- Facilitate team communication with a real-time chat service and collaboration tools
- Monitor, manage and develop your server's file system to maintain a stable performance
- Gain best practice methods on sharing files and resources through a network
- Install and configure common standard services such as web, mail, FTP, database and domain name server technologies
- Create kickstart scripts to automatically deploy RHEL 7 systems
- Use Orchestration and configuration management tools to manage your environment
Who this book is for:
This Learning Path is intended for system administrators with a basic understanding of Linux operating systems and written with the novice-to-intermediate Linux user in mind. To get the most of this Learning Path, you should have a working knowledge of basic system administration and management tools.
Uday Sawant has completed Master's in Computer Applications from Mumbai University. He is skilled with more than four years of experience in software development and operations field. Before working as a software developer, he worked extensively with server hardware as a system administrator. He is an expert with the LAMP stack, JavaScript, and cloud infrastructure. Before starting as a software developer, he worked extensively with server hardware and has 2+ years' experience as system administrator. Currently, he is working as Software Scientist in a Mumbai based start-up called Sweetcouch. His responsibilities include developing back-end services, setting up a real-time communication server, and automating various daily tasks. With an immense interest in Machine Learning, he likes to spend his spare time exploring this subject. His first book was Instant Building Multipage Forms with Yii published by Packt publishing
Oliver Pelz has more than 10 years of experience as a software developer and system administrator. He graduated with a diploma degree in Bioinformatics and is currently working at the German Cancer Research center in Heidelberg where he authored and co-authored several scientific publications in the field of Bioinformatics. Next to developing web applications and biological databases for his department and scientists all over the world he is administrating a division-wide Linux-based data center and has setup two high-performance CentOS clusters for the analysis of high-troughput microscope and genome sequencing data. He loves writing code, riding his mountainbike in the Black Forest of Germany and is an absolute Linux and open-source enthusiast for many years. He has contributed to several open-source projects in the past and also worked as a reviewer on the book Centos 7 High Performance.
Jonathan is a web developer, systems engineer and applications programmer, who, for more than 20 years has been working behind the scenes to support companies, organizations and individuals around the world to realize their digital ambitions. With an honors degree in both English and History and as a respected practitioner of many computer languages Jonathan enjoys writing code, publishing articles, building computers, playing the video games and getting 'out and about' in the big outdoors. He has been using CentOS since its inception and over the years, it has not only earned his trust, but it has become his first choice server solution. CentOS is a first class community based enterprise class operating system, it is a pleasure to work with, and because of this Jonathan has written this book in order that his knowledge and experience can be passed on to others.
