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The Linux DevOps Handbook

By : Damian Wojsław, Grzegorz Adamowicz
3.5 (2)
Book Image

The Linux DevOps Handbook

3.5 (2)
By: Damian Wojsław, Grzegorz Adamowicz

Overview of this book

The Linux DevOps Handbook is a comprehensive resource that caters to both novice and experienced professionals, ensuring a strong foundation in Linux. This book will help you understand how Linux serves as a cornerstone of DevOps, offering the flexibility, stability, and scalability essential for modern software development and operations. You’ll begin by covering Linux distributions, intermediate Linux concepts, and shell scripting to get to grips with automating tasks and streamlining workflows. You’ll then progress to mastering essential day-to-day tools for DevOps tasks. As you learn networking in Linux, you’ll be equipped with connection establishment and troubleshooting skills. You’ll also learn how to use Git for collaboration and efficient code management. The book guides you through Docker concepts for optimizing your DevOps workflows and moves on to advanced DevOps practices, such as monitoring, tracing, and distributed logging. You’ll work with Terraform and GitHub to implement continuous integration (CI)/continuous deployment (CD) pipelines and employ Atlantis for automated software delivery. Additionally, you’ll identify common DevOps pitfalls and strategies to avoid them. By the end of this book, you’ll have built a solid foundation in Linux fundamentals, practical tools, and advanced practices, all contributing to your enhanced Linux skills and successful DevOps implementation.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Part 1: Linux Basics
6
Part 2: Your Day-to-Day DevOps Tools
12
Part 3: DevOps Cloud Toolkit

Part 3: DevOps Cloud Toolkit

This last part of the book will focus more on automation using Configuration as Code (CaC) and Infrastructure as Code (IaC). We will also talk about monitoring and tracing as a crucial part of modern application development and maintenance. In the last chapter, we will talk about DevOps pitfalls we’ve experienced in many projects we’ve been involved with.

This part has the following chapters:

  • Chapter 10, Monitoring, Tracing, and Distributed Logging
  • Chapter 11, Using Ansible for Configuration as Code
  • Chapter 12, Leveraging Infrastructure as Code
  • Chapter 13, CI/CD with Terraform, GitHub, and Atlantis
  • Chapter 14, Avoiding Pitfalls in DevOps