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DevOps for the Desperate: A Hands-On Survival Guide by [Bradley Smith]

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DevOps for the Desperate is a hands-on, no-nonsense guide for those who land in a DevOps environment and need to get up and running quickly.

This book introduces fundamental concepts software developers need to know to flourish in a modern DevOps environment including infrastructure as code, configuration management, security, containerization and orchestration, monitoring and alerting, and troubleshooting. Readers will follow along with hands-on examples to learn how to tackle common DevOps tasks.

The book begins with an exploration of DevOps concepts using Vagrant and Ansible to build systems with repeatable and predictable states, including configuring a host with user-based security. Next up is a crash course on containerization, orchestration, and delivery using Docker, Kubernetes, and a CI/CDpipeline. The book concludes with a primer in monitoring and alerting with tips for troubleshootingcommon host and application issues.

You'll learn how to:

Use Ansible to manage users and groups, and enforce complex passwords
Create a security policy for administrative permissions, and automate a host-based firewall
Get started with Docker to containerize applications, use Kubernetes for orchestration, and deploycode using a CI/CD pipeline
Build a monitoring stack, investigate common metric patterns, and trigger alerts
Troubleshoot and analyze common issues and errors found on hosts

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July 12, 2022
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"DevOps for the Desperate is a short, approachable guided tour of a few core tools in the software operations toolkit. Structured as a set of hands-on tutorials in topics like system administration basics, configuration tools like Ansible and Vagrant, and orchestration tools like Kubernetes, this book covers a lot of ground quickly. The focus is very much on the practical, rather than the philosophy of DevOps. Don't expect to use this as your sole reference on DevOps topics, but this is worthwhile as a gentle starting point for the absolute beginner to software operations."
—Laura Nolan, Slack

"A very useful book. . . . it would give any competent developer a good grasp of how to use the tools commonly found in DevOps. Recommended."
—Kay Ewbank, I-Programmer

"Zero-to-hero in one guide."
—td, Amazon Reviewer

About the Author

Bradley Smith is a Director of Infrastructure and resides in Denver, Colorado. He has been an engineer for more than 20 years at many startups and businesses of varying sizes. He's built and trained numerous DevOps, SRE, and software engineering teams. A Boston native, Bradley graduated from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B09M82VY43
Publisher ‏ : ‎ No Starch Press (July 12, 2022)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 12, 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1523 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 163 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1718502486

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Bradley Smith is a Sr SysDev Manager at Amazon working on Amazon Linux. He has been an engineer for more than 20 years focusing on DevOps, Software Engineering, and SRE.

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Ari

Excellent hands-on guide for getting up to speed on modern DevOps

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 11, 2022

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This book is like a tool cheat-sheet on steroids. It touches many of the DevOps branches in a practical manner - from IaC and Configuration as Code to Kubernetes and Troubleshooting. Will it make you a DevOps engineer maintaining complex, highly-available K8s clusters after reading? Unlikely. But will it broaden your knowledge and make you a more effective engineer... Certainly.

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Mark M

Excellent!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 19, 2022

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This book is an excellent resource to get you up to speed with modern devops practices, and all of steps can be followed on your local computer without the need of a cloud account.

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sb_tek

Great book- well explained and succinct

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 1, 2022

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all walk through's made sense and worked flawlessly. Explanations were clear and content was focused. Hope the author writes more!

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td

Zero-to-hero in one guide

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 4, 2022

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We’ll written. To the point, but with the perfect amount of relevant context. This book walks you step-by-step through setting up an infrastructure and deployment pipeline by example. Perfect for the anyone wanting to actually build a modern, scalable devops system.

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Edward Cheadle; Carolyn Knight's husband

Well written, short and to the point

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 7, 2023

Excellent intro into DEVOPS. The chapter on observabilty and troubleshooting are alone worth the price. Even though I was involved in Devops for years, I appreciated the insights gained from this book. It is a great survey of practice of DEVOPS and gives the reader the scope of the problem and pointers on where to go next.

Companies should give it to the new guys to get everyone on the same page.

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battlewithin

Simply Great Material

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 5, 2022

I got a digital copy of this through another source along with several other titles from the same publisher. I had no intentions of reading this book “anytime soon,” but I “picked it up” on a whim one day and continued to do so until I was finished with it. It was a surprisingly enjoyable read as well as being educational.

There were a few topics with which I was already familiar (Ansible being one that comes to mind). On those rare occasions, I still found the material presented to be clear and informative. This is a book I’d wish I’d read years ago when I was first introduced to the DevOps world as a support technician. Now, as a developer, I’ve picked up or barely understood enough to get by. This book was a serious catch-up with plenty of references for further reading. I can’t recommend it enough for anyone that wants to get a good grasp of the fundamentals of DevOps.

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blappy

Super accessible

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 22, 2022

This is a great book for picking up DevOps principles though hands-on examples. It starts simple with the basics, but you end up building out some really modern deployments in Kubernetes. This will get you to the finish line of whatever you're building quickly, and even helps support you after with the observability section.

Everything the DevOps and SRE teams understand deeply is covered here for a software engineer to understand. It will help you interact with the teams you work with, and understand what they're talking about. And if you are the DevOps/SRE team yourself, this will keep you moving!

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SSnappy

Solid coverage for all skill levels, recomended for SRE and Dev alike

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 22, 2022

This book provides a perfect balance providing easily consumable content for beginners along with golden nuggets for experienced engineers. Not sure how to deploy to Kubernetes? This is your quick start guide. Has it been a few years since you used Docker? This will get you back on track in minutes. Every example can be fully tested on your own laptop. Should be required reading for all devs.

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