Mastering Linux Administration

Preface

In recent years, Linux has become increasingly prevalent across a wide variety of computing platforms, including desktop computers, enterprise servers, smartphones, IoT devices, and on-premises and cloud infrastructures. Consequently, the complexity of related administrative tasks, configuration management, and DevOps workloads has also grown considerably. Now, perhaps more than ever, Linux administration skills are highly relevant.

But there's an evolutionary twist to the making of a modern-day Linux administrator. Tedious manual administrative operations are gradually replaced by orchestrated and automated workflows. One-off magic commands and scripts are replaced by declarative manifests invoked on demand while scaling up or down ...