Modern Linux Administration: How to Become a Cutting-Edge Linux Administrator

by Sam R. Alapati

If you want to excel in your work as a Linux administrator, or perhaps land a job as one, you need this book. The amount of knowledge and expertise required of Linux administrators has grown tremendously over the past 10 years. Today you need an amazing variety of skills, several of them very new.

This book provides developers, enterprise architects, and site reliability engineers with a sound introduction to bleeding-edge Linux-based tools and technologies for both development and production environments. If you already know Linux administration basics, author Sam Alapati will help you explore and evaluate tools for virtualization, cloud and big data, configuration management and continuous delivery, and operations monitoring.

Topics include:


Scalability, web applications, web services, and microservices
Server virtualization, Linux containers, and Docker containers
Automating server deployment and managing development environments
Infrastructure as code, configuration management, and orchestration tools
Version control and source code management
Continuous integration, continuous delivery, and continuous deployment
Centralized log management and analysis, and streaming data

Genres: Computer Science, Programming, Technology, Technical

300 pages, Paperback

First published November 4, 2019

Reviews

[Ayoub · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book illustrates the latest technologies in Linux administration world including containerization, continues development and integration tools, configuration automation and others. It does not delve into howtos and technical recipes but keeps you updated to latest trends in FOSS administration terminology and links dots together. Liked how the author explains the namespace, cgroups and container selinux as in isolation, hardware resource management and security respecitvely

[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

First 250 pages of the Early Release copy look really good. The coverage is comprehensive without the really old legacy stuff.

[Stein Karlsen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book, covers a wide diverse set of administrative and software development fields