Hi

Hi. I don't think LPIC-2 should dive too deep into this. As you said,
There's the devtools exam. Linux exam should be about Linux.

If you really want to add some automation, don't add all 3 of the main
ones, again we have the DevOps exam for that. Add Ansible only. It's the
best choice because it uses other mechanisms common to the Linux
environment (SSH).

My 2 cents.

On Thu, 10 Feb 2022, 01:47 Bryan Smith via lpi-examdev <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 2:11 PM Fabian Thorns via lpi-examdev <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The current objectives are on the wiki:
>>   https://wiki.lpi.org/wiki/LPIC-2_Objectives_V4.5
>> The page already contains some future change considerations, including
>> some contents that will likely be removed from the exam. But please
>> feel free to bring up *any* aspect you’d like to discuss. This
>> explicitly includes weight changes if you feel some topics should be
>> tested at another level.
>> However, there are two rather general concerns that I would like to
>> point out explicitly: One of them is configuration automation. Manual
>> administration is clearly often not the preferred way to administer
>> systems, so it might be a good idea to include some portions of it in
>> LPIC-2. We do already have a topic on this in the DevOps Tools
>> Engineer (topic 704, 10 weights in total!) which may serve as a
>> baseline for a similar topic in LPIC-2.
>>
>
> Yeah, to take a first, simple crack at it, I'd probably have something
> like (needs major refinement) ...
>
>
> Topic 206:  System Maintenance
>  ...
> 206.4: Configuration Management (weight: 2 ~ 4?)
>
> Description: Candidates should be able to identify and execute
> pre-existing Ansible, Chef and Puppet components and solutions to ensure a
> target server is in a specific state regarding its configuration and
> installed software.
>
> Key Knowledge Areas:
>
>  - Basic feature and architecture knowledge of Ansible
>  - Basic feature and architecture knowledge of Chef
>  - Basic feature and architecture knowledge of Puppet
>
> The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
>
>  - Inventory, Default/Variable, Task, Handler, Builtin
>  - Recipe, Cookbook, Manifest, Class
>  - ansible-playbook
>  - chef-solo
>  - puppet
>
>
>
> Another trend is containerization. This is a thin line, since the LPIC
>> track is still closely aligned to system administration, while Podman,
>> Docker, et. al. include far more aspects, like application packaging,
>> building tools. Adding these topics in detail to LPIC would require a
>> lot of room and actually change the program’s characteristics.
>>
>
> Like Configuration Management, probably should be limited to starting and
> destroying premade instances, or things will quickly get out of hand.
>
>
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