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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

GitFlow and GitHub Flow

GitFlow is a branching model for Git, created by Vincent Driessen. It aims to provide a consistent and easy-to-use branching model for teams working on software projects. The GitFlow model uses two main branches: develop and master. The develop branch is used to develop new features, while the master branch represents the current production-ready state of the code base. There are also several supporting branches, such as feature, release, and hotfix, which are used to manage the process of developing, releasing, and maintaining software.

GitHub Flow is a model that was developed by and for GitHub for use with its hosting and collaboration platform. It is similar to GitFlow, but it is designed to be simpler and easier to use, especially for smaller teams and projects. In the GitHub Flow model, all development is done in branches, and new features are merged into the master branch using pull requests. There is no separate develop branch, and the master branch...