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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

Keeping builds efficient

Knowing the fundamentals of your Linux environment, as we discussed in the last section, is vital to working out your deployment methodology. Although there exist some similarities between the build processes themselves (especially between traditional hypervisors and cloud environments), knowing these differences enables you to make informed decisions about how to deploy Linux throughout your enterprise.

Once you have chosen the methodologies most appropriate to your environment, it's important to consider a few principles to ensure your process is streamlined and efficient (again, bywords of Enterprise Linux deployments). We will cover these here to proceed into the real in-depth, hands-on work in the remainder of this book. Let's get started by looking at the need for simplicity in our builds.

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