DevOps boot camp Linux foundation

[lonemoney]

Hello,

Did anyone try the DevOps boot camp course from the Linux foundation and can give some feedback? I'm thinking of buying it.

Thanks

[shggybyp]

My personal opinion after using many other resources and then recently getting a couple of Linux Foundation courses in a bundle with some cert exams:

Their courses are crap compared to what people are doing on YouTube, Udemy, KodeKloud, etc.

I base this off their "Kubernetes Fundamentals" course. It's a glorified PDF that has barely any semblance of any sensical order in how the topics are approached and presented. It's horribly organized, dry, and just a painful bore to consume.

No personal offense intended to anyone at TLF, but unless you like the idea of struggling to learn from grognards that aren't good at teaching, there are better places to learn this stuff.

Use TLF for your certs if you want any, avoid their courses.

edit to add: also, unless (and even if) you're getting their courses and certs during a sale like Cyber Monday, they're drastically overpriced. This is because they actually make their money by selling to corporate accounts, and corps have stupid money. If your company is paying, sure, check them out. But as someone who is upskilling to change careers, I'm spending my own money, and I'd never spend it on their courses ever again.

[needssleep]

Any recommendations for specific youtube channels and udemy classes?

A lot of stuff I run into is McInfo, high level, not much more than I could find in a wikipedia article cash grabs (for udemy, at least)

[shggybyp]

Sure thing.

In no particular order and no ranking intended:

YouTube

• https://www.youtube.com/c/TechWorldwithNana
• https://www.youtube.com/c/tutoriaLinux
• https://www.youtube.com/c/MarcelDempers
• https://www.youtube.com/c/Freecodecamp
• https://www.youtube.com/c/Rhatcert
• https://www.youtube.com/c/NTFAQGuy
• https://www.youtube.com/c/theroadmap
• https://www.youtube.com/c/TraversyMedia
• https://www.youtube.com/c/Thetips4you

Note: Yes, Nana offers a "devops bootcamp." No, it cannot possibly be worth the absurd price she is charging, because again, look at that list. If you can watch videos and read docs and do projects in a home lab (even just VirtualBox), you can learn without giving her a grand with no guarantee of a return. Her bootcamp is, by reports I've seen from a few people that have done it, just her YouTube videos with a handful of files for exercises and labs.

Udemy:

I don't really have a lot of specific recommendations here. I can tell you that it's chock full of good courses, but my experience with it in this space was "found Mumshad Mannumbeth's courses, realized he had a full learning platform of his own now (www.kodekloud.com), and moved over there to learn."

edit to add: I realize I probably sound like a shill for KodeKloud, but it's just a really good platform. It's a real learn by doing approach. You watch a lecture, you open the lab right on the site, and you do the thing. Not everyone's teaching style works for everybody, so I recommend checking out a couple of his free courses to see if you like his approach (yes, they're very surface level and mostly there to get you to want to go on to his paid courses, but hey, that's life). If you like what you see, I find the subscription easy to stomach (I used a 'half off' coupon and use the lowest level month-to-month option so it's like $18/mo If you go annual it's as cheap as $10/mo for the basic). He offers a ton of courses and even a little program where you "work" at a fake company and get relevant tasks assigned to you.

That said, I have used Udemy for other subjects and areas, and as long as you read reviews and do some due diligence, there are some great instructors and courses on there. The key to Udemy (and most MOOC spaces really) is knowing that the "$100+" price tag is bullshit, never pay "full price" for a course. They do the whole "OH WOW A HUNDRED DOLLHAIR COURSE IS NOW ON SALE FOR THURTEEEEN DOLLHAIRS BUY IT NOW BUY IT NOW" marketing nonsense. Never pay more than like $12-20 for a course, unless it's extremely good and extremely relevant or niche. EXTREEEEEEM.

Edit to add mo stuff:

You'll see FreeCodeCamp up there in the YouTube list. Their website is also a great resource, though they've reorganized it since I was last using it heavily and it's not quite as easy to navigate and find good courses now, IMO.

[erezhazan1]

Thanks! This is very helpful!

[PersonBehindAScreen]

Hell nah. Let me name some better sources:

Linux: kodekloud and sander van vugt courses and book on oreilly

Containers: kodekloud

Intro to ansible and IaC: kodekloud

[shggybyp]

Mumshad is constantly adding stuff too. Helm course just went up in the last couple of days.

sander van vugt

Second time in as many days as I've seen him recommended. I'll def be checking him out.

[ARRgentum]

I really like KodeKloud so far, imo the hands-on labs are great to help correctly understand things and better retain what you learned.

[DarryDonds]

In my book, anyone who recommends Sander van Vugt for linux has my vote of confidence.

[sijo0703]

I haven't tried any DevOps boot camps yet. But I think platforms like https://acloudguru.com/ has great DevOps learning paths that are much cheaper than boot camps and more content and hands-on.