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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

IaC projects worth knowing

Since the rise of the public cloud, especially AWS, the need for a repeatable and reliable way of setting up an infrastructure and configuring cloud services started to grow as well. Since then, a lot of tools have come to be and more of them are being developed. In this section, we will review the most popular and innovative tools out there.

AWS CloudFormation

AWS CloudFormation is a popular IaC tool offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) to automate the provisioning of AWS resources. It was first released in 2011 and has since become a widely used tool for managing infrastructure in the cloud.

CloudFormation allows you to define the infrastructure in a declarative language, such as YAML or JSON, and then create, update, or delete stacks of resources based on those definitions. This allows for consistent and reproducible infrastructure deployments, as well as easy rollback and version control. It’s not all sparkles and rainbows, though –...