Key Features

Automate your Linux infrastructure with the help of practical use cases and real-world scenarios

Learn to plan, build, manage, and customize OS releases in your environment

Enhance the scalability and efficiency of your infrastructure with advanced Linux system administration concepts

Book Description

Automation is paramount if you want to run Linux in your enterprise effectively. It helps you minimize costs by reducing manual operations, ensuring compliance across data centers, and accelerating deployments for your cloud infrastructures.

Complete with detailed explanations, practical examples, and self-assessment questions, this book will teach you how to manage your Linux estate and leverage Ansible to achieve effective levels of automation. You'll learn important concepts on standard operating environments that lend themselves to automation, and then build on this knowledge by applying Ansible to achieve standardization throughout your Linux environments.

By the end of this Linux automation book, you'll be able to build, deploy, and manage an entire estate of Linux servers with higher reliability and lower overheads than ever before.

What you will learn

Perform large-scale automation of Linux environments in an enterprise

Overcome the common challenges and pitfalls of extensive automation

Define the business processes needed to support a large-scale Linux environment

Get well-versed with the most effective and reliable patch management strategies

Automate a range of tasks from simple user account changes to complex security policy enforcement

Learn best practices and procedures to make your Linux environment automatable

Who this book is for

This book is for anyone who has a Linux environment to design, implement, and maintain. Open source professionals including infrastructure architects and system administrators will find this book useful. You're expected to have experience in implementing and maintaining Linux servers along with knowledge of building, patching, and maintaining server infrastructure. Although not necessary, knowledge of Ansible or other automation technologies will be beneficial.

Table of Contents

Building a Standard Operating Environment on Linux

Automating Your IT Infrastructure with Ansible

Streamlining Infrastructure Management with AWX

Deployment Methodologies

Using Ansible to Build Virtual Machine Templates for Deployment

Custom Builds with PXE Booting

Configuration Management with Ansible

Enterprise Repository Management with Pulp

Patching with Katello

Managing Users on Linux

Database Management

Performing Routine Maintenance with Ansible

Using CIS Benchmarks

CIS Hardening with Ansible

Auditing Security Policy with OpenSCAP

Tips and Tricks