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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 proper documentation and knowledge sharing

Documentation and knowledge sharing are critical for maintaining consistency and avoiding errors in DevOps workflows, yet many organizations fail to prioritize these activities.

In any software development project, documentation plays a crucial role in ensuring its success. It serves as a reference guide, provides insights into the project’s architecture, design, and implementation details, and aids in maintaining and troubleshooting the software. One of the common pitfalls in DevOps is the lack of proper and up-to-date documentation, which can lead to confusion, delays, and mistakes. To address this issue, it’s essential to understand the different types of documentation in software projects and their intended audiences. These are set out here:

  • Technical documentation
  • API documentation
  • User documentation
  • Process documentation
  • Operational documentation
  • Release notes and changelogs
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