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Published inNov 2023
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Damian Wojsław
Damian Wojsław
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Damian Wojsław

Damian Wojsław has been working in the IT industry since 2001. He specializes in administration and troubleshooting of Linux servers. Being a system operator and support engineer he has found DevOps philosophy a natural evolution of the way sysops work with developers and other members of the software team.
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Grzegorz Adamowicz
Grzegorz Adamowicz
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Grzegorz Adamowicz

Grzegorz Adamowicz has been working in the IT industry since 2006 in a number of positions, including Systems Administrator, Backend Developer (PHP, Python), Systems Architect and Site Reliability Engineer. Professionally was focused on building tools and automations inside projects he is involved in. He's also engaged with the professional community by organizing events like conferences and workshops. Grzegorz worked in many industries including Oil & Gas, Hotel, Fintech, DeFI, Automotive, Space and many more.
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Setting up and maintaining a system other than a hobbyist server (and even those, maybe, too) poses a serious challenge: how do you ensure that the system is installed and configured correctly and according to expectations? When you have to install a new server that is identical in configuration, how do you ensure that? In the past, a way of doing it was documenting the current configuration after the installation process was done. This would be a document describing the hardware, operating system, installed software, created users, and configuration applied. Any person who wanted to recreate it would have to follow steps to achieve the configuration described in the document.

The very next logical step is to write shell scripts that achieve the same goal with one additional improvement over the manual process: the scripts—properly written, tested, and maintained—do not require manual work, except, maybe, the initial system installation. But a properly...

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Published in: Nov 2023Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781803245669

Authors (2)

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Damian Wojsław

Damian Wojsław has been working in the IT industry since 2001. He specializes in administration and troubleshooting of Linux servers. Being a system operator and support engineer he has found DevOps philosophy a natural evolution of the way sysops work with developers and other members of the software team.
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Grzegorz Adamowicz

Grzegorz Adamowicz has been working in the IT industry since 2006 in a number of positions, including Systems Administrator, Backend Developer (PHP, Python), Systems Architect and Site Reliability Engineer. Professionally was focused on building tools and automations inside projects he is involved in. He's also engaged with the professional community by organizing events like conferences and workshops. Grzegorz worked in many industries including Oil & Gas, Hotel, Fintech, DeFI, Automotive, Space and many more.
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