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

2 points by Cwizard 2y ago ↗ HN

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?

2 comments

[ 0.22 ms ] story [ 14.2 ms ] thread

yuppie_scum 2y ago ↗

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

Also learn Ansible and Terraform.

chitraa 2y ago ↗

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!