Re: Good book recommendations ?

2011-03-10 Thread David Miller
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 pr

Re: Good book recommendations ?

2011-03-10 Thread Mark van Harmelen
Loads of recommendations - thanks everyone! regards mark On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:45 AM, 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' > >

Re: Good book recommendations ?

2011-03-10 Thread jurgen . depicker
> 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/lis

Re: Good book recommendations ?

2011-03-09 Thread marco
I agree. Beginning Ubuntu System Administration 8.0.4, by the same author is great, and the pro one must just continue it. On 3/9/11 12:01 PM, "Sander van Vugt" wrote: > You seem to need sysadmin stuff. That's not in any of the Ubuntu books I > know (or have written, authored a couple myself

Re: Good book recommendations ?

2011-03-09 Thread Sander van Vugt
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, D

Re: Good book recommendations ?

2011-03-09 Thread Diego Xirinachs
+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/Ser

Re: Good book recommendations ?

2011-03-09 Thread Dan Sheffner
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=UTF8&qid=1299693203&sr=8-1 Deployments I created a wiki page that completely automates an install from start to finish for lucid: https://www.frackingtubes.co

Good book recommendations ?

2011-03-09 Thread Mark van Harmelen
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 automat