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This is the second edition of a title that succeeded before its time – this second edition comes at a timely juncture for Linux administrators and will become a key reference.
If Linux administrators want to build a small or medium-sized network or datacenter, this is the book to show them how to do it by automating the build process. Linux datacenters have multiplied over the last 5 years and literally thousands of Linux system administrators on all 5 continents need this information.
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"While automating a system is the dream of all sysadmins, there is such a thing as too much automation. Thankfully, this book recognises it. It covers just everything a sysadmin needs to know … . If you’re a sysadmin – get this book, you won’t be sorry. Highly recommended." (Paul F. Johnson, CVU/ ACCU/ Reviews, February, 2004)
Kirk Bauer has been programming for 17 years, professionally for the past 9 years. He has been involved in a large number of projects, ranging in scope from one-week solo projects to projects lasting over two years with many developers. He excels at all aspects of a project -- managing, designing, implementing, testing, documentation and support – and has been solely responsible for many projects that have required him to oversee multiple developers. Kirk also has experience with a wide range of programming languages and platforms. In addition, he has 6 years of professional system administration experience, almost all of it in important production environments. His system administration experience and skills include many variants of UNIX and Linux on a variety of hardware, Oracle, MySQL, Apache, and several networking technologies.
Nathan Campi is a UNIX and Linux sys-admin by trade, currently working as an operations manager in San Francisco. His system administration experience is almost entirely with companies with large scale web operations based on Open Source software. In his copious free time, he enjoys jogging, watching spaghetti westerns, experimenting with Linux systems, and spending time with his wife and two children.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Focuses on CFengine,
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This review is from: Automating Linux and Unix System Administration (Expert's Voice in Linux) (Paperback)
I bought this book expecting it would describe and demonstrate a variety of automation methods and tools. The book surprised me -- pleasantly. The majority of the book focuses on CFEngine (www.cfengine.org) and how to use it to manage server configurations, deliver applications automatically to those servers, and enforce a consist policy across the servers.
The book goes into some depth demonstrating how cfengine works. It has chapters on configuration, setting up a production environment, setting up automated installations, and delivering applications using cfengine. There are smaller chapters on SSH, Nagios (and using CFengine to deliver it), and improving server security using cfengine. The book is about 400 pages and is packed with content. There are interesting facts and config bits in every chapter. With the exception of the cfengine manuals, there are no other books on the market today which provide a detailed, comprehensive look at cfengine...until now. If you are using, will use, or have questions about what CFengine can do, get this book. I'm happy I did.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Great book with a lot of CFEngine,
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This review is from: Automating Linux and Unix System Administration (Expert's Voice in Linux) (Paperback)
Repetitive tasks not only waste time, but each repitition is prone to error. Automation is the solution to repetition and any serious System Administrator will tell you that automation is a cornerstone of the profession. Automating Linux and UNIX System Administration is a great guide to building this cornerstone.
This book covers a wide variety of topics including: simple shell scripting, remote management with SSH, automated installations, monitoring, and configuration management. The majority of the items are explained with using CFEngine in mind -- so much so that I feel this book should probably advertise its heavy use of CFEngine somewhere in the title or at least on the cover. If you don't use CFEngine and have no plans to do so, a lot of this book becomes irrelevant. However, CFEngine is a popular, robust management system and is worth getting to know. If you're still managing servers by hand, it's probably time to start thinking about automation. Automating Linux and UNIX System Administration is a solid book that will set you on the right track.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Cfengine missing manual,
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As a CFengine evangelist I find this book very useful to brush up my automation skills, Cfengine peculiarities and even such obscure features as modules and methods in Cfengine. THe only drawback of this book that it needs better visualization - a Cfengine and automation is a complex concept, so few more diagrams would be very helpful. The Cfengine portal ([...]) already has this book present!
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