Freeman James. Hands-On Enterprise Automation on Linux: Efficiently perform large-scale Linux infrastructure automation with Ansible

Packt Publishing, 2020. — 571 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78913-161-1.Achieve enterprise automation in your Linux environment with this comprehensive guideAutomation 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