Modern System Administration: Managing Reliable and Sustainable Systems (Paperback)

Early system administration required in-depth knowledge of a variety of services on individual systems. Now, the job is increasingly complex and different from one company to the next with an ever-growing list of technologies and third-party services to integrate. How does any one individual stay relevant in systems and services? This practical guide helps anyone in operations--sysadmins, automation engineers, IT professionals, and site reliability engineers--understand the essential concepts of the role today.

Collaboration, automation, and the evolution of systems change the fundamentals of operations work. No matter where you are in your journey, this book provides you the information to craft your path to advancing essential system administration skills. Author Jennifer Davis provides examples of modern practices and tools with recommended materials to advance your skills.

Topics include:

• Development and testing: Version control, fundamentals of virtualization and containers, testing, and architecture review
• Deploying and configuring services: Infrastructure management, networks, security, storage, serverless, and release management
• Scaling administration: Monitoring and observability, capacity planning, log management and analysis, and security and compliance

早期的系統管理需要對個別系統上的各種服務有深入的了解。現在，這項工作變得越來越複雜，並且因公司而異，需要整合越來越多的技術和第三方服務。在系統和服務方面，個人如何保持相關性？這本實用指南幫助運營中的任何人 - 系統管理員、自動化工程師、IT專業人員和網站可靠性工程師 - 瞭解當今角色的基本概念。

協作、自動化和系統演進改變了運營工作的基本原則。無論您在旅程的哪個階段，本書都提供了信息，以制定提升基本系統管理技能的路徑。作者Jennifer Davis提供了現代實踐和工具的示例，並推薦了相關資料以提升您的技能。

主題包括：

- 開發和測試：版本控制、虛擬化和容器的基本原理、測試和架構審查
- 部署和配置服務：基礎設施管理、網絡、安全、存儲、無服務器和發布管理
- 擴展管理：監控和可觀察性、容量規劃、日誌管理和分析、安全和合規性

Jennifer Davis is an experienced operations engineer, international speaker, and author. Her books include Modern System Administration, Effective DevOps, and Collaborating in DevOps Culture. Jennifer has worked with a variety of companies, from startups to large enterprises, improving operability practices and encouraging sustainable work.

Chris Devers has spent the last twenty years helping people get the most out of computers, so that they can spend their time on more important things, helping development teams focus their efforts on delivering software that solves real problems for real people. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts with his wife, sons, and cat, and would usually rather be taking photos and bike rides.

Jennifer Davis是一位經驗豐富的運維工程師、國際演講者和作家。她的著作包括《現代系統管理》、《高效DevOps》和《在DevOps文化中合作》。Jennifer曾與各種公司合作，從初創企業到大型企業，改善可操作性實踐並鼓勵可持續工作。

Chris Devers在過去的二十年中一直幫助人們充分利用電腦，以便他們可以將時間花在更重要的事情上，幫助開發團隊專注於提供解決真實人們問題的軟體。他與妻子、兒子和貓一起居住在馬薩諸塞州的Somerville，通常更喜歡拍照和騎自行車。