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Hands-On Enterprise Automation on Linux

By : James Freeman
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Hands-On Enterprise Automation on Linux

By: James Freeman

Overview of this book

Automation is paramount if you want to run Linux in your enterprise effectively. It helps you minimize costs by reducing manual operations, ensuring compliance across data centers, and accelerating deployments for your cloud infrastructures. Complete with detailed explanations, practical examples, and self-assessment questions, this book will teach you how to manage your Linux estate and leverage Ansible to achieve effective levels of automation. You'll learn important concepts on standard operating environments that lend themselves to automation, and then build on this knowledge by applying Ansible to achieve standardization throughout your Linux environments. By the end of this Linux automation book, you'll be able to build, deploy, and manage an entire estate of Linux servers with higher reliability and lower overheads than ever before.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
1
Section 1: Core Concepts
5
Section 2: Standardizing Your Linux Servers
10
Section 3: Day-to-Day Management
16
Section 4: Securing Your Linux Servers

Performing routine maintenance

Loading schemas and/or data is not the only task you would perform with Ansible on a database. Sometimes, manual intervention is required in a database. For example, PostgreSQL requires VACUUM operations from time to time, to free up unused space in the database. MariaDB has a maintenance tool called mysqlcheck that can be used to verify the integrity of tables and perform optimization. Each platform will have its own specific tools for maintenance operations, and it is up to you to establish the best practices for database maintenance on your chosen platform. Furthermore, sometimes it is necessary to make simple changes to a database. For example, it might be necessary to delete (or update) a row from a table, to clear an error situation that has occurred in an application.

Of course, all these activities could be performed manually—however...