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Hands-On Linux for Architects

Hands-On Linux for Architects: Design and implement Linux-based IT solutions

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€17.99 ~~€26.99~~

Renews at €18.99p/m

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Gain a clear understanding of how to design a Linux environment
Learn more about the architecture of the modern Linux operating system(OS)
Understand infrastructure needs and design a high-performing computing environment

Description

It is very important to understand the ?exibility of an infrastructure when designing an efficient environment. In this book, you will cover everything from Linux components and functionalities through to hardware and software support, which will help you to implement and tune effective Linux-based solutions. This book gets started with an overview of Linux design methodology. Next, you will focus on the core concepts of designing a solution. As you progress, you will gain insights into the kinds of decisions you need to make when deploying a high-performance solution using Gluster File System (GlusterFS). In the next set of chapters, the book will guide you through the technique of using Kubernetes as an orchestrator for deploying and managing containerized applications. In addition to this, you will learn how to apply and configure Kubernetes for your NGINX application. You’ll then learn how to implement an ELK stack, which is composed of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. In the concluding chapters, you will focus on installing and configuring a Saltstack solution to manage different Linux distributions, and explore a variety of design best practices. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with designing a high-performing computing environment for complex applications to run on. By the end of the book, you will have delved inside the most detailed technical conditions of designing a solution, and you will have also dissected every aspect in detail in order to implement and tune open source Linux-based solutions

Who is this book for?

This intermediate-level book is for Linux system administrators, Linux support engineers, DevOps engineers, Linux consultants or any open source technology professional looking to learn or expand their knowledge in architecting, designing and implementing solutions based on Linux and open source software. Prior experience in Linux is required.

What you will learn

Study the basics of infrastructure design and the steps involved
Expand your current design portfolio with Linux-based solutions
Discover open source software-based solutions to optimize your architecture
Understand the role of high availability and fault tolerance in a resilient design
Identify the role of containers and how they improve your continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines
Gain insights into optimizing and making resilient and highly available designs by applying industry best practices

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Publication date : Apr 30, 2019

Length: 380 pages

Edition : 1st

Language : English

ISBN-13 : 9781789534108

Category :

Cloud & Networking

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Table of Contents

21 Chapters

Section 1: High-Performance Storage Solutions with GlusterFS

Section 1: High-Performance Storage Solutions with GlusterFS

Introduction to Design Methodology

Introduction to Design Methodology

Defining the stages of solution design and why they matter

Analyzing the problem and asking the right questions

Considering possible solutions

Implementing the solution

Further reading

Defining GlusterFS Storage

Defining GlusterFS Storage

Technical requirements

What is a cluster?

What is GlusterFS?

Block, file, and object storage

Why choose GlusterFS?

The need for highly redundant storage

The need for high performance

Further reading

Architecting a Storage Cluster

Architecting a Storage Cluster

Technical requirements

GlusterFS compute requirements

How much space do you need?

Performance considerations

The best approach for high availability

How the workload defines requirements

Further reading

Using GlusterFS on the Cloud Infrastructure

Using GlusterFS on the Cloud Infrastructure

Technical requirements

Setting up the bricks used for backend storage

Installing GlusterFS on the nodes

Creating the volumes

Optimizing performance

Further reading

Analyzing Performance in a Gluster System

Analyzing Performance in a Gluster System

Technical requirements

An overview of the implementation

Performance testing

Availability testing

Further reading

Section 2: High-Availablility Nginx Web Application Using Kubernetes

Section 2: High-Availablility Nginx Web Application Using Kubernetes

Creating a Highly Available Self-Healing Architecture

Creating a Highly Available Self-Healing Architecture

Creating container images

Building container images using best practices

Container orchestration

Further reading

Bibliography/sources

Understanding the Core Components of a Kubernetes Cluster

Understanding the Core Components of a Kubernetes Cluster

The Kubernetes control plane

Kubernetes worker nodes

Kubernetes objects

Further reading

Architecting a Kubernetes Cluster

Architecting a Kubernetes Cluster

Storage considerations

Network requirements

Customizing kube objects

Further reading

Deploying and Configuring Kubernetes

Deploying and Configuring Kubernetes

Infrastructure deployment

Further reading

Bibliography/sources:

Section 3: Elastic Stack

Section 3: Elastic Stack

Monitoring with the ELK Stack

Monitoring with the ELK Stack

Technical requirements

Understanding the need for monitoring

Centralized logs

Elasticsearch overview

Kibana brings everything together

Further reading

Designing an ELK Stack

Designing an ELK Stack

Technical requirements

Elasticsearch CPU requirements

Memory sizing for Elasticsearch

Storage configuration for Elasticsearch

Logstash and Kibana requirements

Further reading

Using Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana to Manage Logs

Using Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana to Manage Logs

Technical requirements

Deployment overview

Installing Elasticsearch

Configuring Elasticsearch

Installing Logstash and Kibana

Configuring Kibana

Starting Logstash and Kibana

What are Beats?

Let's not skip a beat – installing Beats

Configuring Beats clients

Further reading

Section 4: System Management Using Saltstack

Section 4: System Management Using Saltstack

Solving Management Problems with Salty Solutions

Solving Management Problems with Salty Solutions

Centralizing system management

Understanding NaCl

Further reading

Getting Your Hands Salty

Getting Your Hands Salty

Hands-on with Salt

Installing Salt with package managers

Design Best Practices

Design Best Practices

Designing for the occasion

On-premises environments

Cloud environments

The journey to the cloud

Further reading

Assessments

Chapter 1: Introduction to Design Methodology

Chapter 2: Defining GlusterFS Storage

Chapter 3: Architecting a Storage Cluster

Chapter 4: Using GlusterFS on Cloud Infrastructure

Chapter 5: Analyzing Performance in a Gluster System

Chapter 6: Creating a Highly Available Self-Healing Architecture

Chapter 7: Understanding the Core Components of a Kubernetes Cluster

Chapter 8: Architecting Kubernetes on Azure

Chapter 9: Deploying and Configuring Kubernetes

Chapter 10: Monitoring with ELK stack

Chapter 11: Designing an ELK Stack

Chapter 12: Using Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana to Manage Logs

Chapter 13: Solving Management Problems with Salty Solutions

Chapter 14: Designing a Salt Solution and Installing the Software

Chapter 15: Design Best Practices

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Pankaj Mar 17, 2021

5

I enjoyed this book. It was easy to understand and answered a lot of my concerns in chapters which flow naturally from customer requirements, designing the central piece (storage) of the discussed customer requirement, to HA with Kubernetes, monitoring with ELK and when all of this feels too big of an infrastructure to maintain, it has a section on Infrastructure as code to understand how we can automate management of the said infrastructure.Overall, this is a great book to understand what all components are involved in a software solution which is highly scalable and available.

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Jaime May 18, 2019

5

Found this to be an excellent complement to my job as a solutions architect dedicated to CDNs and clouds. Covering from basics on Linux Machines to topics like Elasticsearch, Kibana and a nice intro to DevOps. The concepts covered will endure for years as they are the foundations of most of the IT solutions out there. The book is also written in an easy reading way so it is quick read.

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About the authors

Salamanca

Salamanca

Denis Salamanca is a technology enthusiast living in Costa Rica with his fiance and step-son. He has been working in IT since he was 20 and has worked for the most influential and leading companies in the industry, including VMware, Microsoft, and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise. He currently holds more than 10 technical certifications across different fields, such as cloud, storage, Linux, Docker, and virtualization. He has also participated in the development of Linux certifications and is part of the CompTIA Linux Subject Matter Experts and Technical Advisory Committee. His love for technology has driven him to work in different positions and fields across his career, and this has helped him to develop an understanding about the different points of view that a technical solution requires.

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Flores

Flores

Esteban Flores has been meddling with computers since he was 8 years old. His life as an IT expert began when he lost a lot of important data belonging to his family by saying he was "fixing the computer." He's worked for top-tier companies, including Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, VMware, Akamai, and Microsoft. With 10 years' experience, his passion for cutting-edge technology has driven him to work on different roles during his professional career. Storage technologies have always been his forte, focusing mostly on performance tuning and optimization. A photographer during his free time, he's been doing Linux-related things since his first job, finding amazement in its flexibility to run from a small laptop all the way up to the world's fastest supercomputers.

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