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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

Software installation

Depending on which distribution you’ve chosen and the type of installation you’ve decided on, your system may lack software that’s essential for your everyday work. It may also be that you one day require a piece of software that isn’t installed by default.

Linux distributions pioneered something that other operating systems mirrored later on. The common way of installing software on the Linux operating system is by running an appropriate command that will fetch a binary, put it properly on the system, add some configuration if required, and make it available to users. Today, this may not sound revolutionary at all. After all, we’re living in a world of Apple App Store, Google Play, and Microsoft Apps. But back in the day when Windows and macOS users had to navigate the internet to find a suitable installer for their software, Linux users could install most of it with a single command.

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