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I think it's time articles like these start suggesting an infrastructure as code product, like chef or puppet, to do the heavy lifting.

I feel like doing this stuff by hand should be considered insecure and outdated..



All chef and puppet give you is a tool to setup 100 insecure and outdated servers, they don't help at all with the initial security decisions.


Any other tools or resources you'd recommend to a newbie web server admin? I've checked out a few books but it's hard to know what's being used in industry.


I'd recommend puppet or ansible.

http://ansible.cc/

http://puppetlabs.com/


If you don't know how to do it by hand, then puppet is just going to confuse you. Better to keep it simple when you're new at something.




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