DevOps in Python

1. Front Matter

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2. Installing Python

   • Moshe Zadka

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3. Packaging

   • Moshe Zadka

   Pages 7-27

4. Interactive Usage

   • Moshe Zadka

   Pages 29-38

5. OS Automation

   • Moshe Zadka

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6. Testing

   • Moshe Zadka

   Pages 51-70

7. Text Manipulation

   • Moshe Zadka

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8. Requests

   • Moshe Zadka

   Pages 85-94

9. Cryptography

   • Moshe Zadka

   Pages 95-110

10. Paramiko

    • Moshe Zadka

    Pages 111-119

11. Salt Stack

    • Moshe Zadka

    Pages 121-137

12. Ansible

    • Moshe Zadka

    Pages 139-145

13. Docker

    • Moshe Zadka

    Pages 147-150

14. Amazon Web Services

    • Moshe Zadka

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15. Back Matter

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Explore and apply best practices for efficient application deployment. This book draws upon author Moshe Zadka's years of Dev Ops experience and focuses on the parts of Python, and the Python ecosystem, that are relevant for DevOps engineers. 



You'll start by writing command-line scripts and automating simple DevOps-style tasks. You'll then move on to more advanced cases, like using Jupyter as an auditable remote-control panel, and writing Ansible and Salt extensions. This work also covers how to use the AWS API to manage cloud infrastructure, and how to manage Python programs and environments on remote machines.


Python was invented as a systems management language for distributed operating systems, which makes it an ideal tool for DevOps. ​Assuming a basic understanding of Python concepts, this book is perfect for engineers who want to move from operations/system administration into coding. 

What You'll Learn

• Use third party packages and create new packages
  
• Create operating system management and automation code in Python
  
• Write testable code, and testing best practices
  
• Work with REST APIs for web clients
  

Who This Book Is For

Junior or intermediate sysadmin who has picked up some bash and Python basics.

• Systems
• Unix
• Linux
• Docker
• Automation
• Infrastructure as Code
• Systems Administration
• Site Reliability Engineering
• Jupyter
• Requests
• Testing
• Ansible
• Salt
• Cloud computing
• Python
• DevOps

“There is a lot of useful information in this short book. … if you are a Python user looking to get into DevOps, it should prove very useful.” (Eugene Callahan and Yujia Zhang, Computing Reviews, December 23, 2021)

• Belmont, USA

  Moshe Zadka

Moshe Zadka has been part of the open source community since 1995 and has been involved with DevOps since before the term became mainstream.  One of two collaborators in the Facebook bootcamp Python class, he made his first core Python contributions in 1998, and is a founding member of the Twisted open source project. He has also given tutorials and talks at several recent PyCon conferences and contributed to Expert Twisted (Apress, 2019). 

ted at “Production Engineers”, which is what Facebook calls DevOps. Moshe has been part of the open source community since 1995, made his first core Python contributions in 1998 and is a founding member of the Twisted open source project. He has given tutorials or talks at several recent PyCon conferences and contributed to Expert Twisted (Apress, 2019)

ted at “Production Engineers”, which is what Facebook calls DevOps. Moshe has been part of the open source community since 1995, made his first core Python contributions in 1998 and is a founding member of the Twisted open source project. He has given tutorials or talks at several recent PyCon conferences and contributed to Expert Twisted (Apress, 2019)

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