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

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

- Chapter 1. Modern Linux System Administration
- Chapter 2. Networking Essentials for a System Administrator
- Chapter 3. Scalability, Web Applications, Web Services, and Microservices
- Chapter 4. Server Virtualization and Linux Containers
- Chapter 5. Working with Docker Containers
- Chapter 6. Automating Server Deployment and Managing Development Environments
- Chapter 7. Infrastructure as Code, Configuration Management and Orchestration Tools
- Chapter 8. Version Control and Source Code Management
- Chapter 9. Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment
- Chapter 10. Centralized Log Management and Analysis, and Handling Stream Data
- Chapter 11. System Monitoring, Event Processing, and Tracking Application Performance
- Chapter 12. Enterprise Infrastructure-as-a-Service Using Openstack
- Chapter 13. Cloud System Administration – A Crash Course on Managing Amazon Web Services (and the Google Cloud Platform)
- Chapter 14. Big Data, Data Science, Apache Hadoop, and Apache Mesos
- Chapter 15. Security and Compliance in the Modern Systems Environment
- Chapter 16. New Computing Environments, Reliability Engineering and Modern Linux Performance Tuning