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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

Chapter 1 - Building a Standard Operating Environment on Linux

  1. Standard Operating Environment.
  2. There are many reasons, but commonly enterprises will have Linux machines in service for many years (often whether they originally planned to or not!). An operation system falling out of support and not having security patches available is a big problem for most enterprises, and so Linux distributions should be chosen accordingly.
  3. Yes, absolutely—the standards are there to serve as a guideline and to prevent things from getting chaotic, but they are not intended to be so rigid that they hamper progress or innovation.
  4. Possible answers might include the following:
    • The speed at which new machines can be brought up for scaling purposes
    • Confidence in those machines that they will work the same as the current ones
    • The reliability of the machines brought into service
  5. Possible answers...