Sometimes I need to be able to spin up a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) server in a local development environment for testing. For many use-cases spinning up a free Rocky Linux image is sufficient to test in an environment that’s a relatively close facsimile to a RHEL-proper environment. But for those cases where you can’t get around needing to test in a RHEL environment then there’s a need for a RHEL image with a subscription attached....
Photo by Jan Kahánek on Unsplash I’m a religious note-taker. Back in my school days, I kept lots of notebooks and I had a habit of always carrying around a Moleskine and jotting down ideas, writing notes, or journaling. Now many years later I’ve developed a habit of writing my notes in digital form. Mostly this was so that I could make them searchable. At first, my notes started out as a few text files but eventually, I started writing all of my notes in Markdown....
Photo by Jonathan Chng on Unsplash I recently had someone reach out to me on LinkedIn asking if I would mentor them on Ansible. Like many sysadmins I know I’m short on bandwidth and regretfully had to decline. But I did offer a book recommendation and a link to the Ansible Discord I sometimes frequent… But this was enough to inspire me to write up some of my thoughts on learning Ansible....
Updated 2023-09-16 This is a collection of recommended DevOps learning resources. Those with a ✅ green check-mark are my favorite resources for those topics. DevOps Online resources DevOps Roadmap SRE Books – Google Getting into DevOps – Reddit Books ✅ The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Digital Disruption, Developers, and Overthrowing the Ancient Powerful Order by Gene Kim The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, & Security in Technology Organizations by Gene Kim, et al....
In November of 2019, I started working as a Tier 1 support agent at a web-hosting company in the Denver, CO area. Just shy of 18 months later I was promoted to Managed Hosting Analyst, which is a Linux Sysadmin role. I retained a couple roles between then. I was promoted to Tier 1 Expert at about 3 months in, and around 9 months later I received a promotion to Advanced Product Support, which is basically a Jr....