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Linux Administration Best Practices

By : Scott Alan Miller
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Book Image

Linux Administration Best Practices

3.3 (3)
By: Scott Alan Miller

Overview of this book

Linux is a well-known, open source Unix-family operating system that is the most widely used OS today. Linux looks set for a bright future for decades to come, but system administration is rarely studied beyond learning rote tasks or following vendor guidelines. To truly excel at Linux administration, you need to understand how these systems work and learn to make strategic decisions regarding them. Linux Administration Best Practices helps you to explore best practices for efficiently administering Linux systems and servers. This Linux book covers a wide variety of topics from installation and deployment through to managing permissions, with each topic beginning with an overview of the key concepts followed by practical examples of best practices and solutions. You'll find out how to approach system administration, Linux, and IT in general, put technology into proper business context, and rethink your approach to technical decision making. Finally, the book concludes by helping you to understand best practices for troubleshooting Linux systems and servers that'll enable you to grow in your career as well as in any aspect of IT and business. By the end of this Linux administration book, you'll have gained the knowledge needed to take your Linux administration skills to the next level.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Section 1: Understanding the Role of Linux System Administrator
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Section 2: Best Practices for Linux Technologies
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Section 3: Approaches to Effective System Administration

Chapter 8: Improving Administration Maturation with Automation through Scripting and DevOps

I think that it is safe to say that for most of us in system administration that scripting and automation and where we naturally gravitate towards for thinking of what creates the best opportunities for overall system improvement. This might be treated, and automation is very important, without question, but it is not the end all of system administration either. It is safe to say that the more that we learn to script and automate, the more that we have free time to focus our energies on tasks that only humans can do while also developing a deeper appreciation for what developers do which is always be helpful for those of us in IT.

System automation is an area where it becomes much easier to obtain bragging rights as to what our daily task list looks like. When sitting around having beers at the proverbial system administrators cocktail lounge, we get little satisfaction over telling our compatriots...