Modern System Administration

The book is dedicated to modern practices and technologies of system administration. It provides basic information about systems, architectures, computational environments, storage, and networks. It discusses methods and toolsets for system administrators, issues of version control, testing, documentation, and information presentation. It describes system assembly, script development, infrastructure management, and ensuring its security.
System monitoring, software, and the work of system administrators are considered. Special attention is paid to system scaling, capacity management, creating a reliable on-call service, incident management, and warning system planning.