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Published inNov 2023
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ISBN-139781803245669
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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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Depending on which distribution you’ve chosen and the type of installation you’ve decided on, your system may lack software that’s essential for your everyday work. It may also be that you one day require a piece of software that isn’t installed by default.

Linux distributions pioneered something that other operating systems mirrored later on. The common way of installing software on the Linux operating system is by running an appropriate command that will fetch a binary, put it properly on the system, add some configuration if required, and make it available to users. Today, this may not sound revolutionary at all. After all, we’re living in a world of Apple App Store, Google Play, and Microsoft Apps. But back in the day when Windows and macOS users had to navigate the internet to find a suitable installer for their software, Linux users could install most of it with a single command.

This is important in the automated...

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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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