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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

Section 1: Core Concepts

The objective of this section is to understand the systems administration fundamentals and techniques that will be covered in this book. First, we will cover a hands-on introduction to Ansible, the tool that will be used throughout this book for automation and purposes such as package management and advanced systems administration en masse.

This section comprises the following chapters:

  • Chapter 1, Building a Standard Operating Environment on Linux
  • Chapter 2, Automating Your IT Infrastructure with Ansible
  • Chapter 3, Streamlining Infrastructure Management with AWX