Hands-On Enterprise Automation on Linux
Packt Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-1-78913-161-1 (ISBN)
Achieve enterprise automation in your Linux environment with this comprehensive guide
Key Features
Automate your Linux infrastructure with the help of practical use cases and real-world scenarios
Learn to plan, build, manage, and customize OS releases in your environment
Enhance the scalability and efficiency of your infrastructure with advanced Linux system administration concepts
Book DescriptionAutomation is paramount if you want to run Linux in your enterprise effectively. It helps you minimize costs by reducing manual operations, ensuring compliance across data centers, and accelerating deployments for your cloud infrastructures.
Complete with detailed explanations, practical examples, and self-assessment questions, this book will teach you how to manage your Linux estate and leverage Ansible to achieve effective levels of automation. You'll learn important concepts on standard operating environments that lend themselves to automation, and then build on this knowledge by applying Ansible to achieve standardization throughout your Linux environments.
By the end of this Linux automation book, you'll be able to build, deploy, and manage an entire estate of Linux servers with higher reliability and lower overheads than ever before.
What you will learn
Perform large-scale automation of Linux environments in an enterprise
Overcome the common challenges and pitfalls of extensive automation
Define the business processes needed to support a large-scale Linux environment
Get well-versed with the most effective and reliable patch management strategies
Automate a range of tasks from simple user account changes to complex security policy enforcement
Learn best practices and procedures to make your Linux environment automatable
Who this book is forThis book is for anyone who has a Linux environment to design, implement, and maintain. Open source professionals including infrastructure architects and system administrators will find this book useful. You’re expected to have experience in implementing and maintaining Linux servers along with knowledge of building, patching, and maintaining server infrastructure. Although not necessary, knowledge of Ansible or other automation technologies will be beneficial.
James Freeman is an accomplished IT consultant and architect with over 20 years' experience in the technology industry. He has more than 7 years of first-hand experience of solving real-world enterprise problems in production environments using Ansible, frequently introducing Ansible as a new technology to businesses and CTOs for the first time. He has a passion for positive psychology and its application in the world of technology and, in addition, has authored and facilitated bespoke Ansible workshops and training sessions, and has presented at both international conferences and meetups on Ansible.
Table of Contents
Building a Standard Operating Environment on Linux
Automating Your IT Infrastructure with Ansible
Streamlining Infrastructure Management with AWX
Deployment Methodologies
Using Ansible to Build Virtual Machine Templates for Deployment
Custom Builds with PXE Booting
Configuration Management with Ansible
Enterprise Repository Management with Pulp
Patching with Katello
Managing Users on Linux
Database Management
Performing Routine Maintenance with Ansible
Using CIS Benchmarks
CIS Hardening with Ansible
Auditing Security Policy with OpenSCAP
Tips and Tricks
| Erscheinungsdatum | 29.01.2020 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Birmingham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 75 x 93 mm |
| Themenwelt | Informatik ► Betriebssysteme / Server ► Unix / Linux |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Netzwerke | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-78913-161-8 / 1789131618 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-78913-161-1 / 9781789131611 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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