Ebooki
Punkty zwrotne II wojny światowej
Philip Bell
Bitwa o Anglię. Pearl Harbor. Stalingrad. Lądowanie w Normandii. Te wydarzenia miały decydujący wpływ na przebieg II wojny światowej. Są przykładem zarówno ogromnego bohaterstwa, jak i bolesnych kosztów globalnego konfliktu. W tych kluczowych momentach szala wojny mogła przechylić się na korzyść którejkolwiek ze stron i zmienić bieg historii. Historyk Philip Bell analizuje dwanaście wyjątkowych wydarzeń, które zadecydowały o charakterze i ostatecznym wyniku najważniejszego konfliktu zbrojnego XX wieku. Wojna ma wiele twarzy - liczą się nie tylko kampanie wojskowe i działania dyplomatyczne, lecz także aspekty gospodarcze. Choć niektóre z opisanych wydarzeń wydają się dobrze znane (jak zrzucenie bomby atomowej na Hiroszimę czy operacja Barbarossa), to autor zwraca uwagę również na działania toczące się poza polem bitwy, takie jak wyścigi zbrojeń czy konferencje w Teheranie i Jałcie. Często to one zza kulis decydowały o ostatecznym toku wydarzeń. Ta wnikliwa analiza dwunastu przełomowych momentów ukazuje, w jaki sposób zarówno państwa Osi, jak i alianci osiągnęli swoje największe sukcesy oraz ponieśli strategiczne porażki. Książka ta rzuca nowe światło na wydarzenia II wojny światowej, zapraszając do świeżego spojrzenia zarówno na dobrze znane, jak i owiane tajemnicą fakty. Przypomina także, jak łatwo sprawy mogły potoczyć się zupełnie inaczej. Patroni medialni:
John Arundel
A revolution is coming to IT operations. Configuration management tools can build servers in seconds, and automate your entire network. Tools like Puppet are essential to take full advantage of the power of cloud computing, and build reliable, scalable, secure, high-performance systems.The book takes you beyond the basics to explore the full power of Puppet, showing you in detail how to tackle a variety of real-world problems and applications. At every step it shows you exactly what commands you need to type, and includes full code samples for every recipe. The book takes the reader from a basic knowledge of Puppet to a complete and expert understanding of Puppet’s latest and most advanced features, community best practices, writing great manifests, scaling and performance, and how to extend Puppet by adding your own providers and resources.The book includes real examples from production systems and techniques that are in use in some of the world’s largest Puppet installations, including a distributed Puppet architecture and a high-performance Puppetmaster solution using Apache and Passenger.
John Arundel
A revolution is happening in web operations. Configuration management tools can build servers in seconds, and automate your entire network. Tools like Puppet are essential to taking full advantage of the power of cloud computing, and building reliable, scalable, secure, high-performance systems. More and more systems administration and IT jobs require some knowledge of configuration management, and specifically Puppet.Puppet 3 Cookbook takes you beyond the basics to explore the full power of Puppet, showing you in detail how to tackle a variety of real-world problems and applications. At every step it shows you exactly what commands you need to type, and includes full code samples for every recipe.The book takes the reader from a basic knowledge of Puppet to a complete and expert understanding of Puppet's latest and most advanced features, community best practices, writing great manifests, scaling and performance, and extending Puppet by adding your own providers and resources. It starts with guidance on how to set up and expand your Puppet infrastructure, then progresses through detailed information on the language and features, external tools, reporting, monitoring, and troubleshooting, and concludes with many specific recipes for managing popular applications.The book includes real examples from production systems and techniques that are in use in some of the world's largest Puppet installations, including a distributed Puppet architecture based on the Git version control system. You'll be introduced to powerful tools that work with Puppet such as Hiera. The book also explains managing Ruby applications and MySQL databases, building web servers, load balancers, high-availability systems with Heartbeat, and many other state-of-the-art techniques
Felix Frank, Martin Alfke
Puppet is a configuration management tool that allows you to automate all your IT configurations, giving you control over what you do to each Puppet Agent in a network, and when and how you do it. In this age of digital delivery and ubiquitous Internet presence, it's becoming increasingly important to implement scalable and portable solutions, not only in terms of software, but also the systems that run it. The free Ruby-based tool Puppet has established itself as the most successful solution to manage any IT infrastructure. Ranging from local development environments through complex data center setups to scalable cloud implementations, Puppet allows you to handle them all with a unified approach.Puppet 4 Essentials, Second Edition gets you started rapidly and intuitively as you’ll put Puppet’s tools to work right away. It will also highlight the changes associated with performance improvements as well as the new language features in Puppet 4. We’ll start with a quick introduction to Puppet to get you managing your IT systems quickly. You will then learn about the Puppet Agent that comes with an all-in-one (AIO) package and can run on multiple systems. Next, we’ll show you the Puppet Server for high-performance communication and passenger packages. As you progress through the book, the innovative structure and approach of Puppet will be explained with powerful use cases. The difficulties that are inherent to a complex and powerful tool will no longer be a problem for you as you discover Puppet's fascinating intricacies.By the end of the book, you will not only know how to use Puppet, but also its companion tools Facter and Hiera, and will be able to leverage the flexibility and expressive power implemented by their tool chain.
Puppet 4.10 Beginner's Guide. From newbie to pro with Puppet 4.10 - Second Edition
John Arundel
Puppet 4.10 Beginner’s Guide, Second Edition, gets you up and running with the very latest features of Puppet 4.10, including Docker containers, Hiera data, and Amazon AWS cloud orchestration. Go from beginner to confident Puppet user with a series of clear, practical examples to help you manage every aspect of your server setup.Whether you’re a developer, a system administrator, or you are simply curious about Puppet, you’ll learn Puppet skills that you can put into practice right away. With practical steps giving you the key concepts you need, this book teaches you how to install packages and config files, create users, set up scheduled jobs, provision cloud instances, build containers, and so much more. Every example in this book deals with something real and practical that you’re likely to need in your work, and you’ll see the complete Puppet code that makes it happen, along with step-by-step instructions for what to type and what output you’ll see. All the examples are available in a GitHub repo for you to download and adapt for your own server setup.
Puppet 5 Beginner???s Guide. Go from newbie to pro with Puppet 5 - Third Edition
John Arundel
Puppet 5 Beginner’s Guide, Third Edition gets you up and running with the very latest features of Puppet 5, including Docker containers, Hiera data, and Amazon AWS cloud orchestration. Go from beginner to confident Puppet user with a series of clear, practical examples to help you manage every aspect of your server setup. Whether you’re a developer, a system administrator, or you are simply curious about Puppet, you’ll learn Puppet skills that you can put into practice right away. With practical steps giving you the key concepts you need, this book teaches you how to install packages and config files, create users, set up scheduled jobs, provision cloud instances, build containers, and so much more. Every example in this book deals with something real and practical that you’re likely to need in your work, and you’ll see the complete Puppet code that makes it happen, along with step-by-step instructions for what to type and what output you’ll see. All the examples are available in a GitHub repo for you to download and adapt for your own server setup.
Thomas Uphill
Puppet is a configuration management system that automates all your IT configurations, giving you control of managing each node. Puppet 5 Cookbook will take you through Puppet's latest and most advanced features, including Docker containers, Hiera, and AWS Cloud Orchestration. Updated with the latest advancements and best practices, this book delves into various aspects of writing good Puppet code, which includes using Puppet community style, checking your manifests with puppet-lint, and learning community best practices with an emphasis on real-world implementation.You will learn to set up, install, and create your first manifests with version control, and also learn about various sysadmin tasks, including managing configuration files, using Augeas, and generating files from snippets and templates. As the book progresses, you'll explore virtual resources and use Puppet's resource scheduling and auditing features. In the concluding chapters, you'll walk through managing applications and writing your own resource types, providers, and external node classifiers.By the end of this book, you will have learned to report, log, and debug your system.
Felix Frank, Martin Alfke
Puppet is a configuration management tool that allows you to automate all your IT configurations, giving you control over what you do to each Puppet Agent in a network, and when and how you do it. In this age of digital delivery and ubiquitous Internet presence, it's becoming increasingly important to implement scaleable and portable solutions, not only in terms of software, but also the system that runs it.This book gets you started quickly with Puppet and its tools in the right way. It highlights improvements in Puppet and provides solutions for upgrading. It starts with a quick introduction to Puppet in order to quickly get your IT automation platform in place. Then you learn about the Puppet Agent and its installation and configuration along with Puppet Server and its scaling options. The book adopts an innovative structure and approach, and Puppet is explained with flexible use cases that empower you to manage complex infrastructures easily.Finally, the book will take readers through Puppet and its companion tools such as Facter, Hiera, and R10k and how to make use of tool chains.
Puppet 8 for DevOps Engineers. Automate your infrastructure at an enterprise scale
David Sandilands
As DevOps and platform engineering drive the demand for robust internal development platforms, the need for infrastructure configuration tools has never been greater. Puppet, a powerful configuration management tool, is widely used by leading enterprises and boasts a thriving open source community.This book provides a comprehensive explanation of both the Puppet language and the platform. It begins by helping you grasp the basic concepts and approach of Puppet as a stateful language, and then builds up to explaining how to structure Puppet code to scale and allow flexibility and collaboration among teams. As you advance, you’ll find out how the Puppet platform allows the management and reporting of infrastructure configuration. The book also shows you how the platform can be integrated with other tooling, such as ServiceNow and Splunk. The concluding chapters help you implement Puppet to fit in heavily regulated and audited environments as well as modern hybrid cloud environments.By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a solid understanding of the capabilities of both the Puppet language and platform, and you will have learned how to structure and scale Puppet to create a platform to provide enterprise-grade infrastructure configuration.
Thomas Uphill, John Arundel
This book is for anyone who builds and administers servers, especially in a web operations context. It requires some experience of Linux systems administration, including familiarity with the command line, file system, and text editing. No programming experience is required.
Puppet for Containerization. Manage, orchestrate, and deploy containers with Puppet
Scott Coulton
This book teaches you how to take advantage of the new benefits of containerization systems such as Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, and Docker UCP, without losing the panoptical power of proper configuration management. You will learn how to integrate your containerized applications and modules with your Puppet workflow. You will also understand how to manage, monitor, and orchestrate hosts to keep deployed containers running seamlessly. With the help of this book, you can efficiently automate and document with containers, as a part of your system.The book will also cover use cases of deploying Puppet within a containerized environment.
Puppet: Mastering Infrastructure Automation
Jaime Soriano Pastor
Puppet is a configuration management tool that allows you to automate all your IT configurations, giving you control. It was written for and by system administrators to manage large numbers of systems efficiently and prevent configuration drifts. Puppet gives you control of what you do to each node, when you do it, and how you do it.This Learning Path will take you from the basics of Puppet to extending it and then mastering it. We will start off with a primer on Puppet, its installation and get a sneak peek under its hood. We will then move on to designing and deploying your Puppet architecture, learning best practices for writing reusable and maintainable code, and executing, testing, and deploying Puppet across your systems. Finally, we will deal with problems of scale and exceptions in your code, automate workflows, and support multiple developers working simultaneously.This course is based on the following books: 1)Puppet 4 Essentials - Second Edition 2)Extending Puppet - Second Edition 3)Mastering Puppet - Second Edition
Michael Duffy
An easy to follow guide with extensive examples to explain Puppet's reporting capabilities to facilitate effective implementation of Puppet in the real world as a reporting tool.If you are a Puppet developer or a system administrator using Puppet, and you want to extend your expertise to manage and optimize your server resources, then this book is for you.
Pura vida. Życie & śmierć Williama Walkera
Patrick Deville
"Pura Vida" opowiada o krótkim, lecz niezwykle intensywnym życiu Williama Walkera. Urodzony w1824 roku w Nashville, Tennessee, w rodzinie o szkockich korzeniach, był nieodrodnym dzieckiem epoki romantyzmu. Studiował medycynę i prawo, zajmował się też pracą dziennikarską, ale wszystko to nie mogło zadowolić tak niespokojnego ducha. Po śmierci narzeczonej postanowił zatem pójść w ślady swojego literackiego idola, lorda Byrona, i zorganizować własną misję wyzwoleńczą. Celem jego wyprawy stały się opanowane przez Hiszpanów kraje Ameryki Środkowej, którym zamierzał narzucić nowych władców białych i angielskojęzycznych. Wkrótce odnosi pierwszy sukces: na odbitych Meksykowi terytoriach tworzy nową Republikę Dolnej Kalifornii i zostaje jej prezydentem. Jego kolejnym celem jest podbój ogarniętej wojną domową Nikaragui. Reżim Walkera popada jednak w konflikt z właścicielem przedsiębiorstwa transportowego Corneliusem Vanderbiltem, któremu udaje się zdobyć poparcie innych państw środkowoamerykańskich i którego wielkim sprzymierzeńcem okazuje się też dżuma dziesiątkująca armię samozwańca. Burzliwe życie Williama Walkera zakończyło się w 1860 roku w Hondurasie, gdzie w wieku zaledwie 36 lat zostanie skazany na śmierć. Śledzenie jego życiorysu jest dla Devillea także pretekstem do refleksji nad fenomenem wyzwolicieli Ameryki Łacińskiej, takich jak Simón Bolívar, Augusto César Sandino, a szczególnie Ernesto Che Guevara - do dziś otaczanych w tym regionie niezwykłą czasem niemal religijną czcią w przeciwieństwie do Walkera, którego nazwisko pozostaje tam symbolem znienawidzonego uzurpatora.
Joanna Bator
Kiedy drzwi zamknęły się za jej chłopakiem, nie wiedziała, że widzi go po raz ostatni. Kiedy zaczęła uczyć polskiego Panią Myko nie przypuszczała, że dzięki niej wyruszy w daleką podróż. Kiedy po raz pierwszy spotkała Mistrza My, nie sądziła, że jej życie na nowo nabierze sensu. Kiedy na jej drodze stanął mężczyzna ze znamieniem w kształcie oliwki na plecach, nie spodziewała się jak silna będzie miłość, która ich połączy. Podróżując wraz z główną bohaterką po Japonii, towarzysząc jej w sklejaniu rozbitych naczyń, czytelnik stopniowo wkracza w harmonijny świat zen, gdzie serce i umysł zapisuje się jednym znakiem kanji, a najpiękniejsze jest to, co niekompletne, przemijające i niedoskonałe. Metaforą ludzkiego losu jest tutaj kintsugi, pradawna sztuka naprawy ceramiki za pomocą złota. Purezento (czyli prezent) to powieść tajemnicza i na wskroś japońska. Poruszająca historia utraty i miłosnej odnowy. Rozgrywająca się w Tokio i Kamakurze opowieść ma słodko-słony smak umami. Joanna Bator pisarka. Autorka . "Wyspy łzy", "Roku Królika" i uhonorowanej Nagrodą Literacką Nike "Ciemno, prawie noc".
Talbot Mundy
Without exaggeration, a very good, rich, interesting event, an adventure and a historical novel in an epic style about the noble personality of the Tros of Samothrace. The page by page describes the incredible courage and dedication of the protagonist in the struggle for Greek freedom and independence while helping the British and Druids fight Julius Caesar.