The Practice of System and Network Administration: DevOps and Other Best Practices for Enterprise IT, Volume 1

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The third edition of The Practice of System and Network Administration has been revised with thousands of updates and clarifications based on reader feedback, while also incorporating DevOps strategies even for non-DevOps environments. With 28 new chapters, this book is perfect for anyone who uses Linux, Unix, or Windows, and it describes essential practices previously handed down only from mentor to protégé.

This book provides cross-platform strategies that are timeless rather than simply telling you what commands to type. It is structured to help even experts through difficult projects while introducing beginners to advanced frameworks valuable for their entire career. Additionally, this comprehensive guide provides real solutions to real-world problems.

Key Topics Covered in the Book include:

• DevOps techniques for applying DevOps principles to enterprise IT infrastructure, even in environments without developers
• Game-changing strategies for delivering results faster with less stress
• Fleet management, which is a comprehensive guide to managing desktops, laptops, servers, and mobile devices
• Service management for designing, launching, upgrading, and migrating services
• Measurable improvement for assessing operational effectiveness and a forty-page, pain-free assessment system that can help you improve the quality of all services today
• Design guides for best practices in networks, data centers, email, storage, monitoring, backups, and more
• Management skills such as organization design, communication, negotiation, ethics, hiring and firing, and more

If you have ever experienced any of the problems listed below, this book can help:

• Empty backup tapes
• Launch of new services that users hate
• More incoming support requests than you can handle
• Fixing problems instead of building new things
• Botched migration of thousands of users to a new service
• Dependence on a computer that can’t be rebuilt if it dies
• A fragile network that breaks any time you try to improve it
• Periodic “hell month” (or even more frequent) that happens
• Discovering problems only when your users start complaining
• Terrifying corporate “Change Review Board”
• Each division of your company has their way of doing things
• Fear that automation will replace or break more than it fixes
• Being underpaid and overworked

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