Hi Fabian, 

You're right, extending is okay :-) 

Thanks!

Kenneth 

A 2018-04-19 15:27, Fabian Thorns escrigué: 

> Hi Kenneth, 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2018 at 3:20 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I've been talking about giving LPIC1 for free once you get LPIC Devops 
>> with other LPIC trainers and we totally disagree.
> 
> Just to be clear, it's not giving LPIC-1 away for free, it's extending an 
> existing certification. Someone not being LPIC-1 would only get the DevOps 
> Tools Engineer, someone who has an LPIC-1 that gets inactive in, say, two 
> years, would then have the existing LPIC-1 extended to be active for another 
> five years. 
> 
>> Someone being able to run docker or git could perfectly be a Windows 
>> Sysadmin/Developer, and it has nothing to do with partitioning, Kernel 
>> modules, text-parsing and many other topics taught in LPIC1 which are 
>> "mandatory" for any Linux operator or junior sysadmin.
>> 
>> When we got asked about which level should our LPIC-DevOps students have 
>> (selection process), we said:
>> 
>> Mandatory to be LPIc-1 level, if possible, LPIC-2 web-focused as well.
>> 
>> So, no, Docker+Ansible+Git+K8s are not equivalent neither imply that you 
>> know how to use grep/sed/modprobe/fdisk/mkfs/.....
> 
> Exactly. We won't make any changes in that regard. Although, if an existing 
> LPIC-1 holder passes the DevOps exam, should we really force him to redo his 
> LPIC-1? 
> 
> Fabian 
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