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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

Lack of scalability and flexibility

Many organizations fail to design their DevOps workflows to be scalable and flexible, leading to issues when projects grow in size or complexity, even though those two things are crucial aspects of DevOps as they enable organizations to respond to changing business requirements and handle increasing workloads efficiently. However, you can fall into the trap of overlooking these factors, which can lead to serious misconceptions and pitfalls. Let’s delve into the importance of scalability and flexibility in DevOps and explore some common misconceptions and pitfalls, such as the following:

  • DevOps is only for small teams or projects
  • Inability to scale infrastructure
  • Flexibility compromises stability
  • Lack of flexibility in release management

Let us look at these misconceptions and pitfalls in detail.

DevOps is only for small teams or projects

One common misconception is that DevOps is only relevant for small teams...