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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

Avoiding Pitfalls in DevOps

This final chapter focuses on DevOps pitfalls and antipatterns that can hinder the successful implementation of DevOps practices. We will highlight the importance of adopting a collaborative culture and prioritizing continuous improvement and discuss various common pitfalls, such as neglecting testing and quality assurance (QA), over-reliance on automation, poor monitoring and feedback loops, inadequate security and compliance measures, and lack of scalability and flexibility.

We will also emphasize the importance of proper documentation and knowledge sharing and discuss strategies to overcome resistance to change. By highlighting these common pitfalls and antipatterns, the chapter aims to provide guidance to organizations on how to successfully implement DevOps practices and avoid common mistakes. These are also probably things organizations struggle the most with, apart from the technical parts.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter...