General description
The book is a little over 300 pages. Besides text, it contains code inserts, images, tables. The difficulty level is easy / medium. It covers basic administration topics. It will be useful primarily for developers who decided to level up their skills.
Brief contents
- Chapter 1. How the command line works.
- Chapter 2. How to work with processes.
- Chapter 3. How to manage services with systemd.
- Chapter 4. Command history in the Linux shell.
- Chapter 5. Files in Linux.
- Chapter 6. How to edit files from the command line.
- Chapter 7. Users and groups.
- Chapter 8. Resource owners and access rights.
- Chapter 9. How to install software.
- Chapter 10. How to configure application configuration.
- Chapter 11. Pipelines and input/output redirection.
- Chapter 12. How to automate tasks using command shell scripts.
- Chapter 13. Secure remote access via SSH.
- Chapter 14. How to manage versions with Git.
- Chapter 15. Container virtualization of applications using Docker.
- Chapter 16. Application logs.
- Chapter 17. Load balancing and the HTTP protocol.
Opinion
For myself, I find this book interesting and useful, and as a result the book received a high rating from me. First, while reading this book, the interest in reading did not disappear, which happens quite rarely. Second, its technical material was moderately complex in the sense that after reading the book there was no impression that you had taken absolutely nothing new from it, just as there was no impression that it was overly overloaded with some brand-new information, of which you know nothing, as often happens with completely new technologies. Third, the material of this book also did not become more complicated as reading progressed in terms of perception. These were different topics, but each of them did not seem very complex. And finally, fourth, the topics themselves turned out to be maximally consistent and well thought out.
