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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

SaaS solutions

SaaS monitoring solutions are the easiest (and most expensive) to use. In most cases, what you’ll need to do is install and configure a small daemon (agent) on your servers or inside a cluster. And there you go, all your monitoring data is visible within minutes. SaaS is great if your team doesn’t have the capacity to implement other solutions but your budget allows you to use one. Here are some more popular applications for handling your monitoring, tracing, and logging needs.

Datadog

Datadog is a monitoring and analytics platform that provides visibility into the performance and health of applications, infrastructure, and networks. It was founded in 2010 by Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc and is headquartered in New York City, with offices around the world. According to Datadog’s financial report for the fiscal year 2021 (ending December 31, 2021), their total revenue was $2.065 billion, which represents a 60% increase from the...