This tutorial guides you through the process of changing a hostname on a CentOS 7 system.
The hostname is set at the time when the CentOS operating system is installed or if you are spinning up a virtual machine it is dynamically assigned to the instance at startup.
The method described in this tutorial will work without the need of restarting your system.
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