Book Image

Hands-On Enterprise Automation on Linux

By : James Freeman
Book Image

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

Questions

  1. Why is it prudent to install and manage your database platform with Ansible?
  2. What are the best practices for database configuration file management with Ansible?
  3. How can Ansible help you keep your database secure on the network?
  4. When would you use the shell module instead of a native database module in Ansible?
  5. Why would you want to perform routine maintenance with Ansible?
  6. How would you perform a PostgreSQL database backup with Ansible?
  7. Which module would you use to manipulate the users on a MariaDB database?
  8. How is PostgreSQL support unique in Ansible at the present time?