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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

Ansible Galaxy

Ansible is a powerful automation tool that enables users to configure, deploy, and manage complex IT infrastructures with ease. However, creating and maintaining Ansible playbooks can be time-consuming, especially when working with large-scale environments. Fortunately, Ansible Galaxy exists to help streamline this process by providing a centralized repository of pre-built roles and playbooks that can be easily integrated into an existing Ansible project.

Ansible Galaxy is a community-driven platform that hosts an extensive collection of Ansible roles and playbooks. These roles and playbooks are submitted by users from around the world and are reviewed and curated by Ansible’s maintainers. Ansible Galaxy provides a simple, efficient way to find and use pre-built automation content that can save users time and effort while ensuring quality and consistency.

Using Ansible Galaxy, users can quickly find, download, and use pre-built roles and playbooks for popular...