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Ask HN: What are good resources to learn about managing your own infrastructure?

by Cwizard on 10/31/23, 7:16 AM with 2 comments

I'm a backend developer and would like to learn about what goes into managing your own infrastructure e.g. dedicated servers in a co-located datacenter.

Let's say I buy 10 servers on Hetzner, what are my next steps? How do I secure these servers (networking, access management), what to use for monitoring, how best to deploy software?

Any books or articles you can recommend? A checklist?

What additional topics come into play if it were 100 servers, what about 1000?

  • by chitraa on 11/7/23, 9:20 AM

    Check out these resources:

    Books: - Site Reliability Engineering - Infrastructure as Code - The DevOps Handbook

    Online Courses: - Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals on Coursera - AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner on Udemy - Azure Fundamentals on Microsoft Learn

    Blogs: - The DevOps Blog - Site Reliability Engineering Blog - AWS Compute Blog

    Certifications: - Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect - AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate - Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert

    You can also check out the website iswebsite.live: https://iswebsite.live/, which provides a free and easy way to check if a website is up or down.

    Hope this helps!

  • by yuppie_scum on 10/31/23, 11:18 AM

    The DevOps Handbook by Gene Kim et all, and the Google SRE book.

    Also learn Ansible and Terraform.