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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

Git, Your Doorway to DevOps

Git is a free and open source version control system (VCS) that is widely used by software developers and teams to track changes to their code base and collaborate on projects. It allows multiple people to work on the same code base without overwriting each other’s changes, and it keeps a record of every change made to the code, making it easy to roll back to a previous version if necessary.

Git was created by Linus Torvalds in 2005 for the development of the Linux kernel, and it has since become the de facto standard for version control in the software industry. It is used by millions of developers worldwide and is supported by a large and active open source community.

In this chapter, we will cover the most commonly used Git commands and how to use them. We will start with the basics of setting up a Git repository and making your first commit, and then move on to more advanced topics such as branching and merging.

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