After many years of working as a Network Engineer and being a Linux hobbyist and doing some junior Linux Sys Admin gigs, I've decided to make the push into developing the skills and acquiring the knowledge to secure gainful employment as a Linux Sys Admin and/or DevOps engineer.
I just took advantage of The Linux Foundation's 25th Anniversary 50% off sale and I'm enrolled in the following self-study courses. Essentials of System Administration Linux Networking and Administration Linux Security Fundamentals Software Defined Networking Fundamentals First question I have is has anyone else taken any of these courses and if so I'm interested in hearing what you got from the course and what it's done for you in your job. Now for the more open conversation part. There is a big difference between being a Linux hobbyist / Jr. Sys Admin managing a few servers at a small company and learning, getting experience with the vast array of common and uncommon Linux/FOSS apps and tools. Cobbler, Puppet, Salt, OpenStack, Graphite, Logstash, memcached, Perl, asterisk, RabbitMQ, openLDAP, Isilon, Arista, Zimbra, Asterisk, RabbitMQ, KVM, ZFS, InfluxDB, Cfengine. I know about some of these and I've even worked with a few of them. I studied Computer Science in a previous life and PERL makes my brain hurt. I can do simple stuff in shell, Python and Ruby. The road ahead seems very unclear as I know 2 common skills/experience that I'm sorely lacking in are scripting and automation. Neither of which will I get from any of the Linux Foundation courses. So I don't really know how to get there from here as what I'm finding is that most Linux Sys Admin jobs are Sr. level and they want folks to walk through the door with many years of work experience with the apps, tools and skills I've mentioned. I know that sometimes the Advanced Topics cover some of these topics, which is all well, good and fine but it doesn't provide any hands-on experience. If you've been in these shoes before or where in these shoes, what would you recommend/? Should I just setup a home lab and start learning all this stuff? It would be awesome to connect with Sr. level experienced Linux Sys Admin folks. Thank you for taking the time to wade through my ramblings! Cheers, Mike _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
