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This book highlights practical sysadmin skills, common architectures that you’ll encounter, and best practices that apply to automating and running systems at any scale, from one laptop or server to 1,000 or more. It is intended to help orient you within the discipline, and hopefully encourages you to learn more about system administration.
This book is based on the Making Servers Work: A Practical Guide to Linux System Administration curriculum found on DigitalOcean Community. It is structured around a few central topics:
Introductory Topics
LAMP and LEMP Technology Stacks
Securing your Servers
Automation with Ansible
Version Control and Continuous Integration
Feel free to pick topics in this book that interest you and explore them using these chapters as guides. Working through this book will expose you to a wide variety of technologies, technical terms, and conceptual approaches to managing Linux servers. You can work through each chapter or section at your own pace, and in any order that you choose.
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Download the Complete eBook!
Making Servers Work: A Practical Guide to System Administration eBook in EPUB format
Making Servers Work: A Practical Guide to System Administration eBook in PDF format
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Thank you for this book, extremely useful
Really informative and helpful tips!
Great guide for beginners like me, thank you.