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

A comprehensive guide to configuring your Fedora Linux environment as a professional system administration workstation.

Key Features

• Leverage best practices and post-installation tricks to tune Fedora Linux workstation
• Explore best practices for OS tuning as a method for improving system administration
• Learn Fedora Linux virtualization resources with QEMU, KVM, and libvirt technologies

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

• Configure a Linux environment from scratch
• Reviews the basics of Linux resources and components
• Learn about enhancements and updates to common Linux desktop tools
• Learn how to optimize resources of the Linux operating system
• Understand the best practices in Systems Administration
• Learn how to harden security with SELinux module
• Improve System Administration with the tools provided by Fedora
• Explore how to create open containers with Podman

Who This Book Is For

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.

Table of Contents

1. Linux and Open Source Projects
2. Best practices for installation
3. Tuning the desktop environment
4. Optimizing storage usage
5. Network and connectivity
6. Text editors
7. LibreOffice Suite
8. Mail clients and browsers
9. Sandboxed applications
10. System Administration
11. Performance tuning best practices
12. SELinux
13. Virtualization and containers