Section 3: Approaches to Effective System Administration

The objective of Section 3 is to step back and take the business context and apply it to our view of Linux administration. With this context, we will consider many process and design decisions in a better way and show how conventional thinking so often fails to accommodate real-world business needs.

This part of the book comprises the following chapters:

• Chapter 7, Documentation, Monitoring, and Logging Techniques
• Chapter 8, Improving Administration Maturation with Automation through Scripting and DevOps
• Chapter 9, Backup and Disaster Recovery Approaches
• Chapter 10, User and Access Management Strategies
• Chapter 11, Troubleshooting