What certification should I look for when first trying to learn linux to a professional degree?
Posted by deleted_by_reddit@reddit | linuxadmin | View on Reddit | 2 comments
As I understand there are sites/organizations like Linux Professional Institute and red hat that have certification, red hat have some courses but they seem super expensive.
I want to work toward being proficient enough to get an entry level job with Linux but don't know where to start in terms of professional training/certification.
any help is welcomed, also feel free to redirect in case this isn't the right sub.
thanks!
EDIT: spellings
Paul_Aiton@reddit
Redhat is considered the gold standard for professional linux certs in the US. Linux foundation's are considered very good by people who have taken both, but are less recognized by employers. LPI and Comptia certs are considered much lower in quality.
If your goal is employment, it is generally considered good to pair the OS cert with a platform cert, for instance a public cloud sysadmin, like AWS sysops or Azure sysadmin, or something like Openstack or VMWare.
I would also recommend you set up some public code repositories ( something like github,) that contain automation code to provision and configure an OS + basic service (like a webserver,) on a public cloud. Doesn't have to be novel or complicated, just show that you have the basic skills to grow from. Terraform is popular for infrastructure code, puppet is a popular match for system config parts, I'm particularly fond of using Ansible to do both. If you go into an interview with a portfolio of example code of "I can provision a minecraft multiplayer server on (aws|azure) with a single command" you're going to be in a lot better position than someone that has no example.
Haunting_Ad_1420@reddit
Great advise and very professional writing.