Hands-On Enterprise Automation on Linux by James Freeman

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