So far in your journey to becoming an enterprise Linux administrator, you have been mostly working with single systems. In this chapter, we will start looking at how individual Linux systems can be brought together to provide a highly available service through the use of clustering.
We will look at the basic concepts that you will need to know when discussing or planning a cluster. We will explore how a cluster can be built on RHEL, SUSE, and Ubuntu. We will run through the process of creating a very basic cluster ...