Chapter 10. Linux and Cloud Foundations

In Chapter 9, Networking Foundations, we talked about networking fundamentals. If you think of chapter 9 as to how applications talk to each other, in this chapter, we will talk about how applications operate both on servers and as groups in the cloud.

Many people are coming to SRE without much operational experience. In a world with tools like Heroku and Serverless, many developers have not had much experience running servers or even in using Linux or common cloud software. The hope is that after this chapter, any fear of Linux or the cloud will be dissipated or you will at least have a base lexicon to do more research.

Many of the pieces introduced in this chapter will help you with an SRE interview where you need to troubleshoot issues on a Linux machine or design architecture for a larger application. After we close out Linux and cloud fundamentals, we will walk through an example architecture question and how you could possibly answer...