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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

Not understanding the technology

You don’t have to know how your TV works to use it. But it’s necessary to understand the principles behind it, what’s the input interface, what are the outputs, and so on. Similarly, with any other technology, you don’t need to 100% understand what makes it tick, but you need to know what the core use case is and what its purpose is.

As a DevOps professional, it’s crucial to have a deep enough understanding of the underlying technologies that power modern software development and operations. From databases to message queues, notifications to block and object storage, each of these technologies plays a critical role in building and maintaining reliable and scalable software systems. Yet one of the most common pitfalls in DevOps is not fully grasping the technology behind these common tasks.

Why is it so important to understand technology? The answer is simple—DevOps is not just about using tools and automation...