CentOS 7 Server Deployment Cookbook

Timothy Boronczyk

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781783288885
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Informatik
• Subtopic: Systemverwaltung

Deploy and manage today's essential services on an enterprise-class, open operating system

About This Book

• Configure and manage Linux servers in varying scenarios and for a range of business requirements
• Explore the up-to-date features of CentOS using real-world scenarios
• See practical and extensive recipes to deploy and manage CentOS

Who This Book Is For

This book is for Linux professionals with basic Unix/Linux functionality experience, perhaps even having set up a server before, who want to advance their knowledge in administering various services.

What You Will Learn

• See how to deploy CentOS easily and painlessly, even in multi-server environments
• Configure various methods of remote access to the server so you don't always have to be in the data center
• Make changes to the default configuration of many services to harden them and increase the security of the system
• Learn to manage DNS, emails and web servers
• Protect yourself from threats by monitoring and logging network intrusion and system intrusion attempts, rootkits, and viruses
• Take advantage of today's powerful hardware by running multiple systems using virtualization

In Detail

CentOS is derived from Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) sources and is widely used as a Linux server. This book will help you to better configure and manage Linux servers in varying scenarios and business requirements.

Starting with installing CentOS, this book will walk you through the networking aspects of CentOS. You will then learn how to manage users and their permissions, software installs, disks, filesystems, and so on. You'll then see how to secure connection to remotely access a desktop and work with databases. Toward the end, you will find out how to manage DNS, e-mails, web servers, and more. You will also learn to detect threats by monitoring network intrusion. Finally, the book will cover virtualization techniques that will help you make the most of CentOS.

Style and approach

This easy-to-read cookbook is filled with practical recipes. Hands-on, task-based exercises will present you with real-world solutions to deploy and manage CentOS in varying business scenarios.

CentOS 7 Server Deployment Cookbook

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CentOS 7 Server Deployment Cookbook

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Credits

Author Timothy Boronczyk	Copy Editor Tom Jacob
Reviewer Mitja Resman	Project Coordinator Kinjal Bari
Commissioning Editor Kartikey Pandey	Proofreader Safis Editing
Acquisition Editor Rahul Nair	Indexer Pratik Shirodkar
Content Development Editor Mehvash Fatima	Graphics Kirk D'Penha
Technical Editors Devesh Chugh Siddhi Rane	Production Coordinator Shantanu N. Zagade

About the Author

Timothy Boronczyk is a native of Syracuse, New York, where he works as a lead developer at Optanix, Inc. (formerly ShoreGroup, Inc.). He's been involved with web technologies since 1998, has a degree in Software Application Programming, and is a Zend Certified Engineer. In what little spare time he has left, Timothy enjoys hanging out with friends, studying Esperanto, and sleeping with his feet off the end of the bed. He's easily distracted by shiny objects.

About the Reviewer

Mitja Resman comes from a small, beautiful country called Slovenia, located in southern Central Europe. Mitja is a fan of Linux and is an open source enthusiast. Mitja is a Red Hat Certified Engineer and Linux Professional Institute professional. Working as a system administrator, Mitja got years of professional experience with open source software and Linux system administration on local and international projects worldwide. The swiss army knife syndrome makes Mitja an expert in the field of VMware virtualization, Microsoft system administration, and lately, also Android system administration.

Mitja has a strong desire to learn, develop, and share knowledge with others. This is the reason he started a blog called GeekPeek.Net (https://geekpeek.net/). GeekPeek.Net provides CentOS Linux guides and How to articles covering all sorts of topics appropriate for beginners and advanced users. He wrote a book, CentOS High Availability by Packt Publishing, covering the topic of how to install, configure, and manage clusters on CentOS Linux.

Mitja is also a devoted father and husband. His two daughters and wife are the ones who take his mind off the geek stuff and make him appreciate life, looking forward to things to come.

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Preface

For over a decade, the CentOS project has provided the community with a free, enterprise-grade operating system through the rebranding and recompilation of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux source. Since CentOS users rely almost exclusively on the community for their support needs, I was keen to write this book when Packt approached me about the project's latest release, CentOS 7. The recipes we chose cover a wide range of topics, from getting started to managing many common web services, and hopefully administrators of any skill level will find something of interest.

However, writing a book is a huge undertaking. Because of this, I want to thank the staff at Packt, my family, and my friends, for their support. The dog needs to be taken for a walk, family engagements need attending, and emergencies arise at the workplace. Without the understanding and encouragement of those around me and the editorial staff, you wouldn't be reading this book.

What this book covers

The recipes presented in this book aim to make even the most difficult configuration tasks easy by providing step-by-step instructions and discussion. Here's a quick rundown of what you can expect from each of the 12 chapters.

Chapter 1, Getting Started with CentOS, contains recipe...