Systems Administration for Cyborgs¶

Everyone these days is a systems administrator at some scale. While there has never been good formal training for systems administration, it’s no easier to learn how to administer systems today than it was ten or twenty years ago. Systems Administration for Cyborgs is a collection of essays that provide an introduction to various systems administration topics in the context of late 20th-early 21st century technological phenomena: cloud computing, database driven web applications, virtualization, Linux, and dev/ops.

Systems Administration for Cyborgs consists of several main sections: The rudiments and background which addresses fundamental skills, basic information, and problems in systems administration. Then, a collection of documents on scaling and availability address challenges and strategies for managing and developing architectures for systems that must provide mission critical services under significant loads. Finally, “Cyborg Administration” ends with a short section that addresses current trends and topics in systems administration. There is also a brief reference section.