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Now fully updated: the definitive classic guide to installing, configuring and maintaining today’s Linux and Unix systems in any environment

Covers today’s hottest sysadmin topics, including cloud computing, containerization, and continuous delivery

Addresses storage management, network design/administration, web hosting, automation, configuration management, performance analysis, virtualization, DNS, security, and more

Fully updated for latest versions of all major Linux distributions

Now complemented by instructor resources for classroom use

The new Fifth Edition has been extensively revised to focus on today’s world of cloud-based systems, application containers, continuous delivery, and highly-detailed monitoring.

Covers today’s hottest sysadmin topics, including cloud computing, containerization, and continuous delivery
Addresses storage management, network design/administration, web hosting, automation, configuration management, performance analysis, virtualization, DNS, security, and more
Fully updated for latest versions of all major Linux distributions

Tribute to Evi xl

Preface xlii

Foreword xliv

Acknowledgments xlvi

Section One: Basic Administration 1

Chapter 1: Where to Start 3

Essential duties of a system administrator 4

Suggested background 7

Linux distributions 8

Example systems used in this book 9

Notation and typographical conventions 12

Units 13

Man pages and other on-line documentation 14

Recommended reading 1135

Index 1136

A Brief History of System Administration 1166

Colophon 1176

About the Contributors 1178

About the Authors 1179

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.

Evi Nemeth pioneered the discipline of UNIX system administration. She taught and mentored computer science students at the University of Colorado Boulder, was visiting faculty member at Dartmouth College and UC San Diego, and helped bring Internet technology to the developing world through her work with the Internet Society and the United Nations.

Garth Snyder has worked at NeXT and Sun and holds a BS in Engineering from Swarthmore College and an MD and an MBA from the University of Rochester.

Trent R. Hein (@trenthein) is a serial entrepreneur who is passionate about practical cybersecurity and automation. Outside of technology, he loves hiking, skiing, fly fishing, camping, bluegrass, dogs, and the Oxford comma. Trent holds a BS in Computer Science from the University of Colorado.

Ben Whaley is the founder of WhaleTech, an independent consultancy. He was honored by Amazon as one of the first AWS Community Heroes. He obtained a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Dan Mackin’s (@dan_mackin) long-standing passion for technology inspired him to get a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He applies Linux and other open source technologies not only in his day job, but also to automation, monitoring, and weather metrics collection projects at home. Dan loves spending time with his wife and dog, skiing, movies, sailing, and backcountry touring.

“As an author, editor, and publisher, I never paid much attention to the competition—except in a few cases. This is one of those cases. The UNIX System Administration Handbook is one of the few books we ever measured ourselves against.”

—Tim O’Reilly, founder of O’Reilly Media

“This edition is for those whose systems live in the cloud or in virtualized data centers; those whose administrative work largely takes the form of automation and configuration source code; those who collaborate closely with developers, network engineers, compliance officers, and all the other worker bees who inhabit the modern hive.”

—Paul Vixie, Internet Hall of Fame-recognized innovator and founder of ISC and Farsight Security

“This book is fun and functional as a desktop reference. If you use UNIX and Linux systems, you need this book in your short-reach library. It covers a bit of the systems’ history but doesn’t bloviate. It’s just straight-forward information delivered in a colorful and memorable fashion.”

—Jason A. Nunnelley

UNIX^® and Linux^® System Administration Handbook, Fifth Edition, is today’s definitive guide to installing, configuring, and maintaining any UNIX or Linux system, including systems that supply core Internet and cloud infrastructure.

Updated for new distributions and cloud environments, this comprehensive guide covers best practices for every facet of system administration, including storage management, network design and administration, security, web hosting, automation, configuration management, performance analysis, virtualization, DNS, security, and the management of IT service organizations. The authors—world-class, hands-on technologists—offer indispensable new coverage of cloud platforms, the DevOps philosophy, continuous deployment, containerization, monitoring, and many other essential topics.

Whatever your role in running systems and networks built on UNIX or Linux, this conversational, well-written ¿guide will improve your efficiency and help solve your knottiest problems.

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Dimensions	1.90 × 6.80 × 9.00 in
Imprint	Addison-Wesley Professional
Format	gen
ISBN-13	09780134277554
ISBN-10	0134277554
Author	Ben Whaley, Dan Mackin, Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent R. Hein
BISAC	COM046070
Subjects	professional, higher education, COM046070, Employability, IT Professional, Y-AT UNIX/LINUX

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