Modern System Administration: Building and Maintaining Reliable Systems

by Jennifer Davis

As development has accelerated in the past 20 years, the role of operations has changed drastically. How does any one individual stay relevant with the increased complexity in systems and services? This practical guide helps anyone in operations--sysadmins, automation engineers, IT professionals, and site reliability engineers--understand the essential concepts of the role today.

The collaboration, automation, and evolution of the systems in use has changed how we do operations work. Author Jennifer Davis, senior cloud advocate at Microsoft, provides examples to help you progress your current skills to modern practices. You'll understand the operations path from version control to production and identify areas of work where you need to upgrade your skills.

Topics include:



Development and testing: Version control, fundamentals of virtualization and containers, testing, and architecture review

Deploying and configuring services: Infrastructure management, networks, security, storage, serverless, and release management

Scaling administration: Monitoring and observability, capacity planning, log management and analysis, and security and compliance

300 pages, Paperback

Published October 13, 2020

Reviews

[Thomas Hansen]

Read it on Safari Bookshelf in pre-release with several chapter missing or incomplete, but it looks promising.
Looking forward to check back when published.

Reading in a browser was a poor experience, but not the authors fault. In the past it was possible to purchase Oreilly titles as PDF/ePub and MOBI also pre-release titles.. not everything is improving;)

[Ashkhan]

Can’t really review a book which is not yet finished at the moment.

However, chapter 11 seems to be complete and that one is pretty good. The other stuff needs more work.