Labs, course, program etc for Linux sysadmins
Posted by FatMili@reddit | linuxadmin | View on Reddit | 10 comments
Hello, I'm currently in IT working with identity management (totally different from linux-sysadmin). But I have been using linux for years personally on my laptops, servers etc. and I really enjoy it.
As I dislike my current job a lot I want to improve my linux-skills and generally sysadmin-skills I wonder if you guys know any labs/courses/programs/educational websites where I can improve Linux sysadmin-skills, networking, ansible etc. I do spend lots of time doing various stuff from internet, youtube, sadservers etc but I would rather like to follow a program or a course that is good in the way to explain and with labs to practice what you've just learned. Kinda like TryHackMe, PortSwigger, HackTheBox and these sites but specifically for Linux sysadmins.
I appreciate any tips. I'm willing to pay for some platform if it's highly recommended and contains solid stuff.
Vynlovanth@reddit
I personally liked Sander van Vugt's courses and books for Red Hat, granted I haven't done his newest courses since I usually had access through O'reilly and my employer decided not to renew it for some reason... Even if you don't use Red Hat, a lot of the skills are transferrable. Red Hat also has certs which might be good on a resume if you don't have previous professional sysadmin/linux experience. I think the new RHCE has more of a focus on automation and ansible.
Other than that I was gonna suggest sadservers as I only found that recently myself. Curious what everyone else says.
FatMili@reddit (OP)
Thanks a lot. I will check this out. Have you heard of KodeKloud? Any thoughts about that?
JimLaMalice@reddit
Kodekloud is great but more into devops (k8s, ansible, gitlab...). They have few course on Linux and Bash scripting. I have passed the RHCSA two years ago with resources from Sander Van Vugt and Asghar Ghori
FatMili@reddit (OP)
Alright cool, I saw they had an LFCS course in Udemy very cheap and you can also use their labs so I’ll try it out.
I will see if I do the RHCSA as well. It weighs more I think and much more recognized in the business.
machinemonkeyz@reddit
I second this, just got my RHCSA a few months ago. The company I’m at now loves this cert for its Linux Administrators.
Sander Van Vugt’s book and video course on O’Reilly were my primary source of study plus lots of VMs.
FatMili@reddit (OP)
Thanks for info 👍
SadServers_com@reddit
Hello, since you mentioned me :-)
A structured roadmap or curriculum for learning DevOps is a very popular request, and while there are several of such roadmaps out there, I felt there were none that were objective-based and practical (and without stressing skills in particular tools; ie, there are several ways of accomplishing the same thing), also I wanted something oriented towards employability (people moving from other sides of tech for ex) and real-life work.
Anyways, I'm building the DevOpsUpskillChallenge.com , just yesterday I released the Linux server review guide (objectives with proposed "solutions") https://docs.sadservers.com/docs/scenario-guides/practical-linux-server-review/ and a free one-click VM to go through it.
FatMili@reddit (OP)
Hey yo! Thank you for replying. I really like your platform and I wanna attack the harder labs once I'm more confident in what I do. I'm definitely gonna check out your other projects!
Btw, since you are here on reddit I'll ask you a question about your sadserver! Sending PM :)
No_Rhubarb_7222@reddit
lab.redhat.com has a bunch of RHEL labs, through the nav crumbs you can find Ansible labs too. Red Hat also has a YT show focused on admin skills, Into the Terminal:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXJyD2dL4oqeX-C3MvsMUJuEzWM4vLK2C&si=htOk98rswAHez8e_
FatMili@reddit (OP)
Thank you! I’ll check it out