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Linux Administration Cookbook

By : Adam K. Dean
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Linux Administration Cookbook

By: Adam K. Dean

Overview of this book

Linux is one of the most widely used operating systems among system administrators,and even modern application and server development is heavily reliant on the Linux platform. The Linux Administration Cookbook is your go-to guide to get started on your Linux journey. It will help you understand what that strange little server is doing in the corner of your office, what the mysterious virtual machine languishing in Azure is crunching through, what that circuit-board-like thing is doing under your office TV, and why the LEDs on it are blinking rapidly. This book will get you started with administering Linux, giving you the knowledge and tools you need to troubleshoot day-to-day problems, ranging from a Raspberry Pi to a server in Azure, while giving you a good understanding of the fundamentals of how GNU/Linux works. Through the course of the book, you’ll install and configure a system, while the author regales you with errors and anecdotes from his vast experience as a data center hardware engineer, systems administrator, and DevOps consultant. By the end of the book, you will have gained practical knowledge of Linux, which will serve as a bedrock for learning Linux administration and aid you in your Linux journey.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Handling irate developers

The systems administration life would be an awful lot easier if we never had to deal with other people (and I'd imagine those other people would say much the same about us).

So, let's talk about developers. Our developer friends are doing their job, developing. It's in the nature of computing that no software is perfect, and bugs will creep in to even the most beautiful of code; it can even pass its previous tests, run perfectly in development and preprod environments, only to bring down production.

You can think you've got a solution working perfectly, running like a dream, purring like a cat, and then one new "feature" from a developer can seemingly bring an entire solution crashing to the floor. It can be tempting to look for someone to blame in these scenarios. However, I would instead urge calm and composure, because...