You’ve reached the end of the book, and I hope you feel better prepared to face the multiple paths before you, to navigate the chaos in your systems reliably and sustainably, and to adopt modern system administration technologies, tools, and practices.
Throughout this book, I’ve set a path—to help you understand your existing systems and practices, assemble systems with those practices and infrastructure code, and monitor and scale those systems. You may have followed that path one chapter after another, or you may have skipped around to the most pressing issues you’re facing right now. Regardless of where you are in your journey—whether you’re an experienced system administrator or an engineer early in your career learning about operability—this resource has given you a path to reason about your systems and understand how to tackle the next challenge, one step at a time.
Figure C-1. The future is bright, and your path may be unclear. Still, with your knowledge, experiences, growth mindset, and collaborators, you can confidently move forward, knowing that you’ll be able to handle whatever lies ahead (image by Tomomi Imura).
In hiking, once you reach the summit, you must descend again in order to ascend the next mountain. Likewise, with system ...
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