TTC ☆ OFFICIAL

Morning TTC! Had a good weekend and the best thing that started it off was passing my RHCSA ! For those who dont know it's a technical certification that focuses on Red Hat Enterprise Linux


Next step is to start getting my Azure certs Trying to have the AZ-900(very basic even you guys could do it), AZ-103 (Admin level) and AZ-300 and AZ-301 (Solution Architect level) by the end of the year

 

Um, I might know some people you could float a resume to. We're always looking for RHEL folks.

 

Redhat?! Damn, haven't thought about that in a long time. When I was at TXST working on my CS degree our CS lab was all Redhat.

 

We're replacing Solaris and HP-UX with RHEL 7 as much as we can recode the applications for it. Some RHEL 6 (and a goddamn POS RHEL 5 application that we firewalled out) but mostly RHEL 7. Great for transitioning old mainframe apps onto. Stable and secure. Good stuff.

5K servers worth, mostly VMs.

We have a lot of stuff here.

 

Unless theyre willing to pay for a Solution Architect with a focus in Openstack and OSP I think I'm over qualified Ive been working years with RHEL that I tell people it's my bread and butter at this point

It's pretty prevalent in the wild and I have a lot of customers using it. RHEL just released RHEL 8 and started using VDO (Virtual Disk Optimizer) which is bonkers. I heard yum was deprecated with DNF but the yum command in RHEL 8 is a wrapper for DNF

 

Youre part of Gov Cloud right? If you guys need a managed provider with the proper Gov Certs and DC's I know someone

 

Yeah, no, you'd probably be starting off as a script monkey double-checking cron jobs.

I mean, it's a shitload of cron jobs, but still. I love how those boxes run themselves. Boot, slap all the monitoring tools on them, ignore them until something breaks.

RHEL 8, eh? That means we can expect a new baseline and DISA STIG to come out. Swell.

 

I don't even know what version of Redhat Enterprise we were using in 05-08.

I do remember we (other CS majors) would always get a good laugh out of a non CS student finding our computer lab and trying to use one of the computers... It was hilarious. Sometimes they would get upset and act out.

 

Hehe yea I was a scipt monkey years ago but not any more I did my times in the trenches

Yea I wouldnt look to move to RHEL 8 for a while but they should have the STIG out already since they have a large amount of Gov customers already. Probably buried somewhere in the KB

 

That's because they hadnt gotten into the Bro-Buntu phase yet

Everyone starting linux uses Ubuntu first but when the Bro's use it they give it a whole new meaning

 

Fun fact, my first CS job after college, every 2 week sprint we would rotate a developer into the "Maintenance Monkey" role. All you did for 2 weeks was fix bugs etc. For this we had a stuffed monkey that would sit on your desk for those 2 weeks.

 

Good morning y’all

 

We had pretty much daily maintenances for customer and who ever had to do them for the day got to wear a safety vest and hard hat

 

Morning Robert. So I use a computer at work, it gets me to the internet... How bout you?

#notanITguy

 

Haha! Yep same here. I am no IT professional for sure. Know enough to get me in trouble but nothing about what these guys are talking about

 

I'm very pleased that there are guys in the world like Sleipnir, CaptAmerica, and Medjah. You guys know stuff and do stuff that I have zero margin for. I appreciate that you guys understand each other and can do the stuff you do.

 

I usually tell people I make the internet work and if they ask for more details I give them my full line of work They usually like the first answer better

 

I moved to management over 10 years ago. I know all the words that @Sleipnir and @medjah use, but I stopped being the guy doing the work a long time ago.

I know enough now to know when I'm getting a line of BS or not.

 

I have been a Software Engineer just over 11 years now. I am hoping in the next few years to transition into either a Team Lead/Management role or possibly move in Sales Engineering.