At this stage, we have defined our requirement for standardization, established which tools to use in our journey toward automation, and now taken a practical look at the fundamental types of environments into which enterprises can expect to deploy an operating system. This has set the groundwork for our automation journey and has provided us with the context for the rest of this book—a hands-on journey through the process of building and maintaining a Linux environment in the enterprise.
In this chapter, we learned about the different types of environments into which Linux might be deployed and the different build strategies available to each. We then looked at some practical examples of ensuring that our builds are of a high standard and can be completed efficiently and repeatably. Finally, we started to look at the benefits of automation and how it can ensure...