Automating Linux and UNIX System Administration

- Introducing the Concepts of Automation

- Practical Automation

- Automation using ssh

- Configuring Systems with GNU cfengine

- Bootstrap your infrastructure

- Configure your infrastructure

- Sharing Data

- Configure your applications

- Maintaining your automation system

- Site-wide monitoring

- Ongoing infrastructure maintenance

- Improving System Security

Appendix A Introduction to Basic Tools

- A.1 The bash Shell

- A.2 Perl

- A.3 Basic Regular Expressions

- A.4 grep

- A.5 The sed Stream Editor

- A.6 awk

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.