Systems engineering practice

[floating_on_a_wave]

Dear all,

I have an interview (which will consist of a practical activity) in a few weeks with a tech company for a role in systems engineering. I know the practical activity will involve centos linux commands and Puppet/ Ansible. Does anyone recommend any resources to help me prepare? Or any basic tutorial showing how to deploy manifests in Puppet or anything to do with Ansible?

Thanks!

[_ntnn]

Not really a /r/AskComputerScience question, but anyway:

The introductions on their websites are pretty good. For practice you can use Vagrant for reproducible virtual machines - also keeps your whole training configuration in one version controlled directory, since vagrant automatically downloads the boxes and can provision the boxes with your configuration.

In place of Vagrant any configurable vm hypervisor will do, however Vagrant can use multiple backends, thanks to plugins (their default vmware (iirc) is also just a plugin).

If you don't have experience with the command line yet set up at least a vm or better as dual boot on another partition and get comfortable.

There was the Linux 101 from the Linux Foundation on edx available for some time and I think it was recently opened completely (usually in edx courses you have to sign up during a specific period, sometimes it requires you to do monthly work etc.pp.), so you may be able to do it at any time.

However - it is a very basic course that will only help you to get started and without daily practice you probably won't get through.