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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

Patching with Katello

In Chapter 8, Enterprise Repository Management with Pulp, we explored the Pulp software package and how it lends itself to automated, repeatable, controllable patching in an enterprise setting. In this chapter, we will build on this by taking a look at a product called Katello, which is complementary to Pulp and lends itself to not just patching but complete infrastructure management.

Katello is a GUI-driven tool that provides advanced solutions for enterprise infrastructure management, and in many ways can be considered to be the successor to the venerable Spacewalk product that many are familiar with. We will explore why you would choose Katello for this purpose and then proceed with hands-on examples of how to build a Katello server and perform patching.

The following topics will specifically be covered in this chapter:

  • Introduction to Katello
  • Installing...