Chapter 10. It’s the Hardware’s Fault! Diagnosing Common Hardware Problems

The world of DevOps is largely a world of software, but ultimately that software needs to run on a physical machine and that physical machine can have its own host of problems. Although if you are a developer or work in QA, you may think that hardware is the sysadmin’s domain; since everyone in DevOps organizations works much more closely together, having hardware troubleshooting skills is invaluable. After all, no matter who is responsible for the hardware, if you could find out ahead of time that the hard drive on an important server is about to fail, wouldn’t you want to know? If you knew that your network application was failing not because of bugs in your code, but ...

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