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The Linux DevOps Handbook

You're reading from  The Linux DevOps Handbook

Product type Book
Published in Nov 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803245669
Pages 428 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (2):
Damian Wojsław Damian Wojsław
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Grzegorz Adamowicz Grzegorz Adamowicz
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1: Linux Basics
2. Chapter 1: Choosing the Right Linux Distribution 3. Chapter 2: Command-Line Basics 4. Chapter 3: Intermediate Linux 5. Chapter 4: Automating with Shell Scripts 6. Part 2: Your Day-to-Day DevOps Tools
7. Chapter 5: Managing Services in Linux 8. Chapter 6: Networking in Linux 9. Chapter 7: Git, Your Doorway to DevOps 10. Chapter 8: Docker Basics 11. Chapter 9: A Deep Dive into Docker 12. Part 3: DevOps Cloud Toolkit
13. Chapter 10: Monitoring, Tracing, and Distributed Logging 14. Chapter 11: Using Ansible for Configuration as Code 15. Chapter 12: Leveraging Infrastructure as Code 16. Chapter 13: CI/CD with Terraform, GitHub, and Atlantis 17. Chapter 14: Avoiding Pitfalls in DevOps 18. Index 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

Not understanding the technology

You don’t have to know how your TV works to use it. But it’s necessary to understand the principles behind it, what’s the input interface, what are the outputs, and so on. Similarly, with any other technology, you don’t need to 100% understand what makes it tick, but you need to know what the core use case is and what its purpose is.

As a DevOps professional, it’s crucial to have a deep enough understanding of the underlying technologies that power modern software development and operations. From databases to message queues, notifications to block and object storage, each of these technologies plays a critical role in building and maintaining reliable and scalable software systems. Yet one of the most common pitfalls in DevOps is not fully grasping the technology behind these common tasks.

Why is it so important to understand technology? The answer is simple—DevOps is not just about using tools and automation...

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