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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.

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DevOps in Python

Chapter 1: Installing Python

Chapter 2: Interactive Usage

Chapter 3: Packaging
Chapter 4: Operating System Automation

Chapter 5: Testing

Chapter 6: Text Manipulation

Chapter 7: Requests

Chapter 8: Cryptography

Chapter 9: Paramiko

Chapter 10: Salt Stack

Chapter 11: Ansible

Chapter 12: Docker

Chapter 13: Amazon Web Services

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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)

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