Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Cookbook - Softcover

Leemans, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784392014 ISBN 13: 9781784392017

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

Over 60 recipes to help you build, configure, and orchestrate RHEL 7 Server to make your everyday administration experience more exciting than ever before!

About This Book

• Create fully unattended installations and deploy configurations without breaking a sweat
• Discover and kick-start the newest RHEL 7 configuration and management tools through an easy-to-follow, practical approach for a lazy system management
• Be guided by an experienced RHEL expert who is a certified Linux engineer with a passion for open source and open standards

Who This Book Is For

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Cookbook is for RHEL 7 system administrators, DevOps, and those who want to learn about RHEL 7 and its newest features. It would be helpful to have some basic knowledge of the RHEL 7 system, Ansible, and Puppet.

What You Will Learn

• Set up and configure RHEL 7 Server
• Use NetworkManager to configure all aspects of your network
• Manage virtual environments using libvirt
• Set up software repositories
• Secure and monitor your RHEL environment
• Configure SELinux, and create and apply its policies
• Create kickstart scripts to automatically deploy RHEL 7 systems
• Use Orchestration and configuration management tools to manage your environment

In Detail

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is a Linux distribution developed by Red Hat. This operating system is dominating the server market and is a real challenge to other operating systems such as Windows and other Linux distribution providers such as CentOS and Fedora.

Providing support to modernize your infrastructure and boost efficiency RHEL provides the stability to take on today's challenges and the flexibility to adapt to tomorrow's demands.

This practical guide will help you get to grips with RHEL 7 Server and automating its installation. Initially, it will introduce you to everything you need to know about KVM guests, then moves on to deploying multiple standardized RHEL systems effortlessly. Next, we will make complex networks setups look like child's play as we take you a little more in-depth into configuring a RHEL system. Moving forward, we'll show you how to set up, configuring, and troubleshoot SELinux. Finally, we'll cover how to secure your operating system, as well as how to monitor it.

About this title

About the Author

William Leemans has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry in various positions and supporting several environments. In 2005, he started his own consulting company, Critter BVBA, in the hope of offering open source solutions to his customers, who are mainly enterprises. In 2010, William started supporting Red Hat products full time with the Federal Police, Belgium. Since then, he has moved on to support Red Hat products at Proximus and now Euroclear. William is a strong open source supporter and contributes where he can. He has a couple of projects running at GitHub (https://github.com/bushvin). During the course of writing this book, William recertified himself as a Red Hat Certified Engineer, hoping to one day become a Red Hat Certified Architect. When he's not tapping away at the keyboard of his laptop, William likes to play around with his two young children, listen to rock music (Foo Fighters, AC/DC, and Queens of the Stone Age are some of his favorites), and devising complicated and intricate plots for the stories that he runs at his biweekly roleplaying sessions with his friends.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1784392014
• ISBN 13: 9781784392017
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250