Modern tools of automation
All of this power comes primarily from modern tools that have been being introduced into the realm of system administration over the last fifteen to twenty years. The Linux world has been very fortunate to have been at the forefront of this movement since the very beginning. This comes naturally both because the Linux community tends to be one that thrives on and focuses on innovation, but also because the intrinsic nature of a system built around command line interfaces and simple text files for configuration and software repositories all make for vastly simpler automation. The design of Linux may not have been intentional to encourage automation, but nearly every major aspect of both the system implementation and the behavior of the ecosystem have led to it having the most ideal combination of factors to nearly always make it the leader in new automation tools and strategies.