Re: Good book recommendations ?
configuration management, and automated backup and recovery. Nagios is also lurking in the backs of our minds. I can surely recommend Packt Publishing's 'Learning Nagios 3.0' Regards, Jürgen-- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
Re: Good book recommendations ?
Loads of recommendations - thanks everyone! regards mark On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:45 AM, jurgen.depic...@let.be wrote: configuration management, and automated backup and recovery. Nagios is also lurking in the backs of our minds. I can surely recommend Packt Publishing's 'Learning Nagios 3.0' Regards, Jürgen -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
Re: Good book recommendations ?
For configuration and change management Puppet is a great tool. Most people using Puppet will use PXE with preseed or jumpstart to provision and boot strap new servers to the point that Puppet can take over and push the necessary configurations and packages to it. This lets you have one master preseed or jumpstart configuration rather than several different and one off ones for different server roles. Puppet has pretty good documentation on their site including best practices at http://docs.puppetlabs.com/. If you want a book I would wait a couple of months for Pro Puppet to be released as the currently available puppet books are from 2008 and are a bit dated at this point. http://www.amazon.com/Pro-Puppet-James-Turnbull/dp/1430230576/ref=pd_sim_b_2 -- David -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
Good book recommendations ?
Hi everyone We are getting more serious about our random collection of servers, all running ubuntu server 10.04+, and want to buy some books that we can use to build our knowledge and skills. Particularly we are interested in topics like automated deployment, configuration management, and automated backup and recovery. Nagios is also lurking in the backs of our minds. Does anyone have any recommendations for us please? Thanks Mark -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
Re: Good book recommendations ?
Mark, I would recommend The official Ubuntu server book: http://www.amazon.com/Official-Ubuntu-Server-Book-2nd/dp/0137081332/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8qid=1299693203sr=8-1 Deployments I created a wiki page that completely automates an install from start to finish for lucid: https://www.frackingtubes.com/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_preseed.cfg_installs_off_PXE_Boot The book also talks about this. automated backup and recovery is also explained allot in the book. I don't specifically use Nagios but buying a book specifically on it will defiantly give you more than you ever wanted to know: http://www.amazon.com/Nagios-Network-Monitoring-Wolfgang-Barth/dp/1593270704 I use http://zabbix.org but I'm probably in the minority here. I hear allot of people use Nagios. Zabbix does everything I need for monitoring. For configuration management allot of people are using puppet chef. Neither of which I have used but are on my list to learn. If you know specifically at what book you want to buy I would just ask on this email thread. I have spent a small fortune on tech books over the years. ~Dan On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Mark van Harmelen m...@cs.man.ac.ukwrote: Hi everyone We are getting more serious about our random collection of servers, all running ubuntu server 10.04+, and want to buy some books that we can use to build our knowledge and skills. Particularly we are interested in topics like automated deployment, configuration management, and automated backup and recovery. Nagios is also lurking in the backs of our minds. Does anyone have any recommendations for us please? Thanks Mark -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
Re: Good book recommendations ?
+1 for guevon official ubuntu server book. I have it and gotta say you get a perfectly written book and tons of insights, and its cheap too :D -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
Re: Good book recommendations ?
You seem to need sysadmin stuff. That's not in any of the Ubuntu books I know (or have written, authored a couple myself). What you need is Pro Linux System Administration, written by James Turnbull and others, ISBN 978-1-4302-1912-5 Regards, Sander van Vugt On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 13:52 -0600, Diego Xirinachs wrote: +1 for guevon official ubuntu server book. I have it and gotta say you get a perfectly written book and tons of insights, and its cheap too :D -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
