CentOS 7 Server Management Cookbook
暫譯: CentOS 7 伺服器管理食譜

Key Features

• 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

Book Description

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.

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

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.

Table of Contents

1. Getting Started with CentOS
2. Networking
3. User and Permission Management
4. Software Installation Management
5. Managing Filesystems and Storage
6. Allowing Remote Access
7. Working with Databases
8. Managing Domains and DNS
9. Managing E-mails
10. Managing Web Servers
11. Safeguarding Against Threats
12. Virtualization