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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

What is IaC?

IaC is a software development practice that involves defining and managing infrastructure through code. In essence, it means that infrastructure is treated as if it were a piece of software, and is managed through the same processes and tools. IaC solutions enable developers to define, provision, and manage infrastructure using code, instead of manually configuring servers, networks, and storage devices. This approach to infrastructure management is highly automated, scalable, and efficient, allowing organizations to reduce deployment times and improve consistency and reliability.

IaC solutions come in different forms, including configuration management tools, provisioning tools, and cloud orchestration tools. Configuration management tools, such as Ansible and Chef, are used to manage the configuration of individual servers or groups of servers. Provisioning tools, such as Terraform and CloudFormation, are used to provision and configure infrastructure resources. Cloud...