Fedora Linux System Administration: Install, manage, and secure your Fedora Linux environments

by Alex Callejas

A comprehensive guide to configuring your Fedora Linux environment as a professional system administration workstation. Fedora Linux is a free and open-source platform for hardware, clouds, and containers that allows software developers and community members to create custom solutions for their customers. Fedora Linux System Administration is a comprehensive guide to workstation configuration for the modern system administrator. You will begin learning about the philosophy of the Open Source movement and the Fedora Project that distinguishes it from other Linux distributions. With this book you will learn best practices and strategies for performing system administrator functions, including best practices for operating system installation, first boot configuration, storage and network configuration. The book will also cover the selection and use of the best applications and tools available in the technology environment. You will also learn the basics of version control systems, enhanced Linux security, automation, virtualization and containers involved in today's system administration. By the end of this book you will have improved and gained the required knowledge for the optimization of day-to-day tasks in the Linux based system administration. This book is for someone who wants to use Fedora Linux as a workstation to perform day-to-day tasks as a system administrator and wants to learn how to optimize the distribution's tools for those tasks. The reader needs to understand the fundamentals of Linux and System Administration but extensive knowledge is not required.

560 pages, Paperback

Published November 24, 2023