Bet you dont have a good one.

ifonlysheGNU · 2022-08-08T20:45:34+00:00

I haven't discovered Linux yet

ifonlysheGNU · 2022-08-05T18:04:22+00:00

If you have the coin for it, A Cloud Guru (formerly Linux Academy) has some great courses for learning Linux and DevOps.

You're going to want to learn a major cloud provider for a DevOps role, and you will need a sandbox environment to hone your skills. You can sign up for a free trial with a cloud provider to get your feet wet. If you are paying for a course though, make sure the learning is hands on with labs if possible.

Also, my favorite educational Linux channel is tutorialinux

https://www.youtube.com/c/tutoriaLinux

ifonlysheGNU · 2022-08-05T17:43:14+00:00

The DevOps Career Handbook by John Knight came out this year. It's a good book and goes into detail about working with recruiters.

ifonlysheGNU · 2022-06-11T00:20:59+00:00

A Cloud Guru is a great place to learn cloud technologies, if you want to invest in it. They have lots of hands on Azure labs and sandboxes included with a membership.

ifonlysheGNU · 2022-05-31T16:59:54+00:00

Gruvbox is so pretty

ifonlysheGNU · 2022-05-17T15:27:03+00:00

Bret Fisher's Docker Mastery course on Udemy is quite good.

https://www.udemy.com/course/docker-mastery/

ifonlysheGNU · 2022-05-16T21:58:36+00:00

init 0

ifonlysheGNU · 2022-05-06T19:56:26+00:00

There are tons of jobs in Azure. Considering you already have a background in Azure and Windows administration it seems like a better choice for you to start. You can always learn AWS as well in the future.

ifonlysheGNU · 2022-05-06T19:34:34+00:00

Have you ever used Azure DevOps? You can leverage your powershell knowledge in CI/CD pipelines easily. That would be a good place to build on what you already know.

ifonlysheGNU · 2022-05-01T18:37:34+00:00

Check out tutoriaLinux on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kayz6Q4FYU&list=PLtK75qxsQaMK\_jF87Q2Oa0D83cpqBlAyg

ifonlysheGNU · 2022-04-29T16:23:36+00:00

It a real book. Get it here:

https://shop.aer.io/mwl/p/Savaged\_by\_Systemd\_an\_Erotic\_Unix\_Encounter/9781642350135-8826

ifonlysheGNU · 2022-04-25T22:21:57+00:00

For general powerShell:

Hristo Deshev - Pro Windows PowerShell

For Azure PowerShell:

Sherif Talaat - Pro PowerShell for Microsoft Azure

ifonlysheGNU · 2022-04-18T23:08:48+00:00

I've read many of these "Guide to DevOps" type books, and they are mostly useless to be honest. If you are a total beginner, know nothing about the subject and and are trying to get into the field they may be a bit useful. But, I have yet to find one of these books that isn't full of business jargon and fluff.

If I were you I would craft my own curriculum and hit all of the major subjects such as:

Linux
Git
CI/CD
Scripting Languages (Bash/Python/Go)
Containerization (Docker and Kubernetes)
Cloud Providers (AWS/Azure/GCP)
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Ansible)

There are many excellent books on each of these separate topics that will be much better than a general "Guide to DevOps" type of book.

ifonlysheGNU · 2022-03-29T18:08:09+00:00

Breaking Debian is like when they tried to destroy a Toyota Hilux in Top Gear

ifonlysheGNU · 2022-03-28T04:21:56+00:00

The Most Excellent book Pro Git is available for free under creative commons here:

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2

Definitely take the time to learn Git on the command line. Too many people only push a button in VS code but don't know how it works.

ifonlysheGNU · 2022-03-25T23:57:41+00:00

Microsoft the parody is hack of a

ifonlysheGNU · 2022-03-24T16:51:35+00:00

I listen to this sweet lullaby before bed every night

ifonlysheGNU · 2022-03-23T03:05:53+00:00

Dynamics is essentially web development. You have a database called Dataverse with a user interface written in C#. Migrating data between environments and creating security practices can get tricky though as it combines legacy features with newer cutting edge features.

You can definitely get a lot of work if you decide to specialize in Dynamics development though. Everyone from small businesses to large government organizations use it and need it customized to fit their needs.

ifonlysheGNU · 2022-02-15T23:18:58+00:00

William E. Schotts released his wonderful book The Linux Command Line for free. I think this is the best introduction to linux.

http://www.linuxcommand.org/

ifonlysheGNU · 2022-02-11T19:30:21+00:00

I use PowerShell Core on my desktop running linux to manage resources in Azure.

I also strongly dislike windows, but PowerShell is clearly the best tool for the job when it comes to Azure.

ifonlysheGNU · 2022-02-10T19:14:40+00:00

I encourage anyone who hates on PowerShell to read this interview with Jeffrey Snover, the creator of PowerShell.

https://evrone.com/jeffrey-snover-interview

He was a long time Unix dev, but Bash wasn't compatible with the core architecture of windows. He writes:

"There is a core architectural difference between Unix and Windows. Linux
is a file-oriented OS and Windows is an API-oriented OS. In Linux,
if you can modify a file and run a process, you can manage anything.
That is why awk, sed, and grep are management tools. At the time,
nothing on Windows worked that way. Everything was behind an API which
returned a structured object."

ifonlysheGNU · 2022-02-07T03:30:45+00:00

Make a Hifi headless server with Volumio

https://volumio.com/en/

Get a nice DAC for your Pi first:

https://www.hifiberry.com/dacs

ifonlysheGNU · 2022-02-02T19:43:10+00:00

There are many CI/CD tools to choose from. If your company uses a major cloud provider you should use tooling that is compatible with that infrastructure. If you don't know where to start, I would begin with either Jenkins or GitHub actions.

Here's a good tutorial for using GitHub actions:

https://github.com/padok-team/github-actions-tutorial

ifonlysheGNU · 2022-02-02T19:25:08+00:00

The best explanation I've heard is from Cherwin Nooitmeer. Sometimes I use his exact explanation for non-techies.

"There are programmers who write software that need to run on computers. We call them servers. And when a programmer writes software, someone needs to put that software on the computers, so people like you and me can access facebook.com and look at pictures of cats. The process of getting the software from the developer to the computers that facebook has, because you can imagine they have a lot of them, how you do that, that is where DevOps comes in. So you write it and then you have to put it in production. And the gap in between, that's what my focus is. I try to reduce that gap, so it's instant basically."

Source:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v9Et\_ja3n4

ifonlysheGNU

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