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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

Choosing the Right Linux Distribution

In this chapter, we will dive into the Linux world from the very beginning. We will briefly touch on Linux history, explain what a distribution is, and explain what to take into account when choosing one for production use. You are not expected to know anything about Linux, its administration, or the cloud. If you don’t understand some words that we use, worry not. There shouldn’t be a lot of confusing terminology in this chapter, and if there is, we will explain it in later chapters. When you finish reading this chapter, you should be able to understand why there are so many Linuxes out there, how much you should expect to pay for it, and how to think about choosing the right Linux for yourself.

In this chapter, we will cover the following main topics:

  • What is Linux and what is a Linux distribution?
  • What can you use to help you make the right decision?
  • Several major Linux distributions that are quite popular today