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SSH Mastery: OpenSSH, PuTTY, Tunnels and Keys (IT Mastery Book 12) 06/02/2018

$11.99

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 to
• eliminate passwords
• manage access by users, groups, addresses, and more
• securely move files around your network
• forward graphic displays
• proxy TCP connections
• build SOCKS proxies
• centrally manage and distribute keys and configurations
• use SSH as secure transport for other applications
• build virtual private networks
• create Certificate Authorities for truly large scale deployment

Master Secure Shell with SSH Mastery!

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TLS Mastery: Beastie Edition 05/04/2021

by Michael W Lucas

( 21 )

$11.99

Transport Layer Security, or TLS, makes ecommerce and online banking possible. It protects your passwords and your privacy. Let’s Encrypt transformed TLS from an expensive tool to a free one. TLS understanding and debugging is an essential sysadmin skill you must have.

TLS Mastery takes you through:

• How TLS works
• What TLS provides, and what it doesn’t
• Wrapping unencrypted connections inside TLS
• Assessing TLS configurations
• The Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol
• Using Let’s Encrypt to automatically maintain TLS certificates
• Online Certificate Status Protocol
• Certificate Revocation
• CAA, HSTS, and Certificate Transparency
• Why you shouldn’t run your own CA, and how to do it anyway
• and more!

Stop wandering blindly around TLS. Master the protocol with TLS Mastery!

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Networking for Systems Administrators (IT Mastery Book 5) 26/01/2015

by Michael W Lucas

( 93 )

$10.99

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 applications and get easy support from the network team.

This book teaches you:

•How modern networks really work
•The essentials of TCP/IP
•The next-generation protocol, IPv6
•The right tools to diagnose network problems, and how to use them
•Troubleshooting everything from the physical wire to DNS
•How to see the traffic you send and receive
•Connectivity testing
•How to communicate with your network team to quickly resolve problems

A systems administrator doesn’t need to know the innards of TCP/IP, but knowing enough to diagnose your own network issues transforms a good sysadmin into a great one.

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FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS (IT Mastery Book 7) 21/05/2015

by Michael W Lucas, Allan Jude

( 87 )

$11.99

21st-Century Data Storage

ZFS, the fast, flexible, self-healing filesystem, revolutionized data storage. Leveraging ZFS changes everything about managing FreeBSD systems.

With FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS, you’ll learn to:

understand how your hardware affects ZFS

arrange your storage for optimal performance

configure datasets that match your enterprise’s needs

repair and monitor storage pools

expand your storage

use compression to enhance performance

determine if deduplication is right for your data

understand how copy-on-write changes everything

snapshot filesystems

automatically rotate snapshots

clone filesystems

understand how ZFS uses and manages space

do custom FreeBSD ZFS installs

Whether you’re a long-term FreeBSD administrator or a new user, FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS will help you simplify storage.

Master ZFS with FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS.

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FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS (IT Mastery Book 9) 10/04/2016

by Michael W Lucas, Allan Jude

( 37 )

$11.99

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 boring
•Delegate filesystem privileges to users
•Containerize ZFS datasets with jails
•Quickly and efficiently replicate data between machines
•split layers off of mirrors
•optimize ZFS block storage
•handle large storage arrays
•select caching strategies to improve performance
•manage next-generation storage hardware
•identify and remove bottlenecks
•build screaming fast database storage
•dive deep into pools, metaslabs, and more!

Whether you manage a single small server or international datacenters, simplify your storage with FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced ZFS.

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TLS Mastery: Tux edition 05/04/2021

by Michael W Lucas

( 27 )

$11.99

Transport Layer Security, or TLS, makes ecommerce and online banking possible. It protects your passwords and your privacy. Let’s Encrypt transformed TLS from an expensive tool to a free one. TLS understanding and debugging is an essential sysadmin skill you must have.

TLS Mastery takes you through:

• How TLS works
• What TLS provides, and what it doesn’t
• Wrapping unencrypted connections inside TLS
• Assessing TLS configurations
• The Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME) protocol
• Using Let’s Encrypt to automatically maintain TLS certificates
• Online Certificate Status Protocol
• Certificate Revocation
• CAA, HSTS, and Certificate Transparency
• Why you shouldn’t run your own CA, and how to do it anyway
• and more!

Stop wandering blindly around TLS. Master the protocol with TLS Mastery!

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FreeBSD Mastery: Jails (IT Mastery Book 15) 22/03/2019

by Michael W Lucas

( 51 )

$11.99

CONFINE YOUR SOFTWARE

Jails 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.

You will:

•Understand how jails achieve lightweight virtualization
•Understand the base system’s jail tools and the iocage toolkit
•Optimally configure jail hardware
•Manage jails from the host and from within the jail
•Optimize disk space usage to support hundreds or thousands of jails
•Comfortably work within the limits of jails
•Implement fine-grained control of jail features
•Build virtual networks
•Deploy hierarchical jails
•Constrain jail resource usage
•And more!

Strip away the mystery. Read FreeBSD Mastery: Jails today!“

This is the sequel to Git Commit Murder, right ?” /phk, creator of the jail system

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Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd Edition: The Complete Guide to FreeBSD 09/10/2018

by Michael W. Lucas

( 126 )

$56.99

This updated edition of Michael W. Lucas' definitive volume on FreeBSD-based systems adds coverage of modern disks, the ZFS filesystem IPv6, redesigned jail and packaging systems, and virtualization, among dozens of new features added in the last 10 years.

FreeBSD is the muscle behind companies like Netflix and EMC. Any place where someone does heavy lifting on the Internet, you'll find FreeBSD. This newly revised edition of Absolute FreeBSD brings FreeBSD's strengths to bear on your problems and covers FreeBSD's newest features, all in the inimitable style that has made author Michael W. Lucas' system administration books so popular.

Any computer system is only as good as the system administrator's knowledge. Absolute FreeBSD teaches you everything you need to know about managing FreeBSD systems, from installation, configuration, and taking the system from "just working" to "working well." A cohesive focus on service delivery and best practice means that you can apply much of the book to other operating systems.

Absolute FreeBSD dives deep into server management, taking you beyond just making things work and into understanding why they work.

You'll learn:

How to best install FreeBSD to meet your needs

Which filesystem to use in your environment

How to back up and restore critical data

How to tweak the kernel, and when not to

Network configuration, from activating interfaces to selecting congestion control algorithms

How to manage UFS, ZFS, and other critical filesystems

FreeBSD's software packaging system, including how to build your own package repository

How and when to upgrade

Techniques to build your own FreeBSD

Advanced security features like blacklistd and packet filtering

How to monitor and adjust performance

Container-style virtualization with jails

Diskless systems

Panic management and bug reporting

With Absolute FreeBSD you will get the solid introduction you need; and if you're a fan of the earlier editions, you will expand your skills even further.

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Ed Mastery: The Standard Unix Text Editor (IT Mastery Book 13) 31/03/2018

by Michael W Lucas

( 43 )

$6.99

Let 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. With Ed Mastery, you too can become a proper sysadmin.

Ed Mastery will help you:
• understand buffers and addresses
• insert, remove, and mangle text
• master file management and shell escapes
• comprehend regular expressions, searches, and substitutions
• create high-performance scripts for transforming files

You must be at least this competent to use this computer. Read Ed Mastery today!

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Relayd and Httpd Mastery (IT Mastery Book 11) 17/05/2017

by Michael W Lucas

( 25 )

$11.99

“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 balancer lets you distribute Internet application load across multiple hosts. Between the two, you can slash hundreds of thousands of dollars off the cost of building, deploying, and managing applications.

With Httpd and Relayd Mastery you’ll learn how to:
• set up web sites
• configure software to run in a chroot
• run dozens or hundreds of sites on one host
• dynamically reconfigure sites with Lua patterns
• manage site logs
• maintain free, globally-valid SSL certificates
• improve performance with SSL stapling
• install and maintain two-server clusters
• distribute traffic between any number of hosts
• stop worrying about old SSL versions and bad crypto algorithms

Slash the amount of time you spend futzing with web servers. Get Httpd and Relayd Mastery today!

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Letters to ed(1): The FreeBSD Journal Letters column, years 1-3 14/03/2022

by Michael W Lucas

( 1 )

$3.99

You asked.
He didn’t answer.

The We Get Letters column of the FreeBSD Journal has been called “a tsunami of bile disguised as experience and erudition,” “a torment to the eye and a stain upon the soul,” and “the corroded battleship anchor that will drag an otherwise illustrious Journal to an ignominious demise.” If you ask people who aren’t the columnist, you’ll get a less luminous view. Perhaps even negative.

We sincerely apologize.

This collection of the first three years illustrates how rapidly Lucas abandoned any pretense of answering questions usefully—or, indeed, paying any attention whatsoever to his correspondents. It is unacceptable. What the editors conceived of as an innocent letters column quickly transcended bitterness to become elevated, even elegant enmity. Against everyone.

Apologies are insufficient.

In an attempt to keep these columns from teaching other articles bad habits, we have confined them in their own private volume. The publisher expects it to be presented as evidence at his inevitable competency hearings, as well as most of the civil suits. Next week’s suits, at least.

"While we appreciate Mr Lucas' unique contributions to the Journal, we do feel his specific talents are not being fully utilized. Please buy his books, his hours, autographed photos, whatever so that he is otherwise engaged." – John Baldwin, FreeBSD Journal Editorial Board Chair

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Domesticate Your Badgers: Become a Better Writer through Deliberate Practice 01/03/2022

by Michael W. Lucas

( 2 )

$9.73

Become the Writer you Want to Be!

A hundred thousand gurus offer contradictory writing secrets. You must outline! You must free write! You must write at a standing desk with your bare feet in cold oatmeal!

The gurus are all correct—
and all wrong.

In Domesticate Your Badgers: Become a Better Writer through Deliberate Practice, full-time author Michael W Lucas demonstrates how to build a personalized plan to transform yourself into the best author you can be. Writing is a set of skills, and deliberately stocking your tool chest makes each piece you write better than the last. Want to be a pro? Use the same techniques pros use.

Stop flailing.
Start learning.

No badgers were harmed in the writing of this book.
Contains no badger or badger by-products.
Regulations on badger domestication vary by location.

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