Re: [PLUG] LINUX ADMIN ADVICE

+1 for the Phoenix Project. Great book.

SRE Handbook is also free until 8/23 which is a great read as well:

https://landing.google.com/sre/book.html

Andy

From: plug <plug-bounces@lists.phillylinux.org> on behalf of Doug Stewart <zamoose@gmail.com>
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Date: Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 4:40 PM
To: Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Subject: Re: [PLUG] LINUX ADMIN ADVICE

The Phoenix Project/DevOps Handbook are good intros to those concepts as well as the Jez Humble books.

On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 4:36 PM, JP Vossen <jp@jpsdomain.org> wrote:

On Jul 26, 2018, at 14:57, Paul Walker <starsinmypockets@gmail.com <mailto:starsinmypockets@gmail.com>> wrote:

On a related not - is there a good manual or finite source of information that is particularly useful for getting started in the trade?

On 07/26/2018 04:11 PM, Tlbox-verizon wrote:
> The Nemeth/Snyder/Hein Linux Admin Handbook is decent IIRC.

Which trade?

_Essential System Administration_ is old but an awesome survey of how to do "stuff" on many different Unix platforms.

_Absolute FreeBSD_ is great because it talks a lot about *why* things work the way they do.

_Backup & Recovery_ is a great survey of, well Backup & Recovery.

Then there is Linux itself (but which distro), Ansible (or Chef, Puppet, Salt or 1,001 other similar CMS tools), AWS (or other <insert cloud here> (AKA "someone else's data center)), backup & *recovery*, Postfix, DNS, DHCP, shell scripting (& probably Git), and tons more...

Good luck, bring aspirin,
JP

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