<span><div><p>Early system administration required in-depth knowledge of a variety of services on individual systems. Now Automation Computers Distributed Systems General IT professionals Quality Assurance & Testing Security Software Development & Engineering Storage Systems Analysis & Design Testing and architecture reviewDeploying and configuring services: Infrastructure management and release managementScaling administration: Monitoring and observability and security and compliance</ul></div></span> and site reliability engineers—understand the essential concepts of the role today.</p><p>Collaboration and the evolution of systems change the fundamentals of operations work. No matter where you are in your journey automation engineers capacity planning fundamentals of virtualization and containers log management and analysis networks serverless the job is increasingly complex and different from one company to the next with an ever-growing list of technologies and third-party services to integrate. How does any one individual stay relevant in systems and services? This practical guide helps anyone in operations—sysadmins this book provides you the information to craft your path to advancing essential system administration skills. Author Jennifer Davis provides examples of modern practices and tools with recommended materials to advance your skills.</p><p>Topics include:</p><ul>Development and testing: Version control