CentOS 7 Server Deployment Cookbook

by Timothy Boronczyk

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 Getting Started with CentOS Networking User and Permission Management Software Installation Management Managing Filesystems and Storage Allowing Remote Access Working with Databases Managing Domains and DNS Managing E-mails Managing Web Servers Safeguarding Against Threats Virtualization

558 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 6, 2016

Reviews

[Andrei · Rating 5 out of 5]

After skimming trough this book I found that it a good reference for deploying most of the popular services and products on centos, it is indeed very lean, it includes a lot of basic stuff but even for that basic stuff, only essential info is included and this is something that I especially like. Also if you know most of the stuff in this book, it is still useful as you can easily find info about what you don't know well as all the content in this book follows a very strict and easy to understand template.