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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 2: Standardizing Your Linux Servers

This section presents a hands-on look at how to ensure that consistency and repeatability remain core facets of your Linux server environment, promoting best practices such as scalability, reproducibility, and efficiency.

This section comprises the following chapters:

  • Chapter 4, Deployment Methodologies
  • Chapter 5, Using Ansible to Build Virtual Machine Templates for Deployment
  • Chapter 6, Custom Builds with PXE Booting
  • Chapter 7, Configuration Management with Ansible