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IT Mastery eBook Series

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  • FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS

    by Allan Jude, Michael W. Lucas ...
    Series Book 7 - IT Mastery
    21st-Century Data StorageZFS, the fast, flexible, self-healing filesystem, revolutionized data storage. Leveraging ZFS changeseverything about managing FreeBSD systems. With FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS, you’ll learn to:understand how your hardware affects ZFSarrange your storage for optimal performanceconfigure datasets that match your enterprise’s needsrepair and monitor storage poolsexpand your storage ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Networking for Systems Administrators

    by Michael W. Lucas ...
    Series series IT Mastery
    Stop waiting for the network team!If basic TCP/IP was hard, network administrators couldn’t do it. Servers give sysadmins a incredible visibility into the network—once they know how to unlock it.Most sysadmins don’t need to understand window scaling, or the differences between IPv4 and IPv6 echo requests, or other intricacies of the TCP/IP protocols. You need only enough to deploy your own ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Ed Mastery

    The Standard Unix Text Editor

    by Michael W. Lucas ...
    Series Book 13 - IT Mastery
    “I’m glad someone’s finally giving ed the attention it deserves.”– Ken Thompson, co-creator of UnixLet me be perfectly clear: ed(1) is the standard Unix text editor. If you don’t know ed, you’re not a sysadmin. You're a mere dabbler. A dilettante. Deficient.Forty years after ed’s introduction, internationally acclaimed author Michael W Lucas has finally unlocked the mysteries of ed for everyone. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • FreeBSD Mastery: Jails

    by Michael W. Lucas ...
    Series Book 15 - IT Mastery
    CONFINE YOUR SOFTWAREJails are FreeBSD’s most legendary feature: known to be powerful, tricky to master, and cloaked in decades of dubious lore. Deploying jails calls upon every sysadmin skill you have, and more—but unleashing lightweight virtualization is so worth it.FreeBSD Mastery: Jails cuts through the clutter to expose the inner mechanisms of jails and unleash their power in your service. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • PAM Mastery

    by Michael W. Lucas ...
    Series Book 10 - IT Mastery
    Pluggable Authentication Modules: Threat or Menace?PAM is one of the most misunderstood parts of systems administration. Many sysadmins live with authentication problems rather than risk making them worse. PAM’s very nature makes it unlike any other Unix access control system.If you have PAM misery or PAM mysteries, you need PAM Mastery!With PAM Mastery, you’ll understand:the different versions of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Sudo Mastery

    2nd edition

    by Michael W. Lucas ...
    Series Book 13 - IT Mastery
    Sudo: You’re Doing It WrongUnix-like operating systems use a rudimentary access control system: the root account can do anything, while other users are peasants with only minimal access. This worked fine in UNIX’s youth, but now that sysadmin responsibilities are spread among many people and applications, many people need a tiny slice of root’s power.Sudo lets you divide root’s monolithic power ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS

    by Allan Jude, Michael W. Lucas ...
    Series Book 9 - IT Mastery
    ZFS improves everything about systems administration. Once you peek under the hood, though, ZFS’ bewildering array of knobs and tunables can overwhelm anyone. ZFS experts can make their servers zing—and now you can, too, with FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS.This small book teaches you to:Use boot environments to make the riskiest sysadmin tasks boringDelegate filesystem privileges to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • DNSSEC Mastery, 2nd edition

    by Michael W. Lucas ...
    Series Book 18 - IT Mastery
    DNSThe world’s most successful distributed database—and the most naïve.The Domain Name System is one of the Internet’s oldest protocols, designed for a network without hostile users. Intruders targeting a network start by investigating their DNS. DNS Security Extensions, or DNSSEC, hardens DNS and brings it into the 21st century. Learning DNSSEC required wading through years of obsolete tutorials, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials

    by Michael W. Lucas ...
    Series series IT Mastery
    FreeBSD is one of the oldest and most featureful open-source Unix-like operating systems. FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials takes you on a deep dive into FreeBSD’s disk management systems.You’ll learn about:identifying your storage hardwarethe Common Access MethodGEOM–FreeBSD’s powerful and flexible stackable storage systemGUID Partition Tables, the modern disk partitioning standardMBR/disklabel ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Relayd and Httpd Mastery

    by Michael W. Lucas ...
    Series Book 11 - IT Mastery
    “I think we’re gonna need a bigger web server.”OpenBSD has a solid reputation for security and stability. It’s well known for the OpenSMTPd mail server, the LibreSSL cryptography library, and the PF packet filter. But nobody ever talks about the load balancer, or the web server.Until now.The httpd web server provides a fast, stable, secure environment for your web applications. The relayd load ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • SNMP Mastery

    by Michael W. Lucas ...
    Series Book 15 - IT Mastery
    SNMPSimple Network Management ProtocolFour lies in one acronym?It’s baroque. It’s arcane. And it’s everywhere.SNMP is one of those system management skills that people acquire by experience, stumbling through one horrid implementation after another and counting their knowledge by their scars. SNMP Mastery is your guide to the secret landscape of one of computing’s most mysterious tools.You will ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • SSH Mastery

    OpenSSH, PuTTY, Tunnels, and Keys - 2nd edition

    by Michael W. Lucas ...
    Series Book 12 - IT Mastery
    The seminal text on SSH, newly revised and updated!Secure Shell (SSH) lets sysadmins securely manage remote systems. It’s powerful, complicated, and confusing.Lose the confusion.SSH Mastery: OpenSSH, PuTTY, Tunnels and Keys rescues you from sifting through decades of obsolete online tutorials and quickly makes you an SSH journeyman. You’ll learn toeliminate passwordsmanage access by users, groups, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD