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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 Tower and alternatives

Ansible Tower provides a centralized platform for managing Ansible automation workflows, making it easier for IT teams to collaborate, share knowledge, and maintain their infrastructure. Some of its key features include a web-based interface for managing Ansible playbooks, inventories, and job runs, role-based access control (RBAC) for managing user permissions, a built-in dashboard for monitoring job status and results, and an API for integrating with other tools and platforms.

It was first released in 2013 by Ansible, Inc. (now part of Red Hat), and has since become one of the most popular tools for automating IT workflows.

Since its initial release, Ansible Tower has undergone numerous updates and enhancements, including support for more complex automation workflows, integration with cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure, and improved scalability and performance. Ansible Tower is a commercial product shipped by the Red Hat company. The closest...