Projects to work on
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Hello!
I wanted to reach out to the community as I just got laid off at my job as a Windows/VMWare system admin. I currently have an opportunity to take on a role as a Linux/Xen admin but the company is reluctant to hire me as it has been about 7 years since I was heavily engulfed in the *NIX world. They are bringing me in for a technical interview next week to see how I measure up. Until then, I really want to sharpen my skills, and so am looking for a project to work on that'll give me all the basics and some advanced knowledge to bring it all back to me.
Any suggestions on a project(s) are welcome!
Antoni
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@antonit said:
Hello!
I wanted to reach out to the community as I just got laid off at my job as a Windows/VMWare system admin. I currently have an opportunity to take on a role as a Linux/Xen admin but the company is reluctant to hire me as it has been about 7 years since I was heavily engulfed in the *NIX world. They are bringing me in for a technical interview next week to see how I measure up. Until then, I really want to sharpen my skills, and so am looking for a project to work on that'll give me all the basics and some advanced knowledge to bring it all back to me.
Any suggestions on a project(s) are welcome!
Antoni
Setup XS, the trial of XOA, then spin up some CentoOS 7 virtual machines for tasks like a web server, proxy server, or even an ELK log system.
Tutorials all on various places of this board. Search the how to tag
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I would say ignore XOA and use XO.
Xen Orchestra Applicance, verses Xen Orchestra (from the sources)
But yeah those are good starting points.
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Monitoring is a good one that is a bit more involved than a typical setup. Zabbix, Zenoss, Nagios, etc. And Grafana is very nice as a portfolio project.
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Since the company that I interviewed with is running Zabbix, maybe I should try that.
Thanks everybody for these fantastic ideas!
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@DustinB3403 said:
I would say ignore XOA and use XO.
Xen Orchestra Applicance, verses Xen Orchestra (from the sources)
But yeah those are good starting points.
link fail.
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@JaredBusch Yeah I tried it with the hyperlink bit, and it did this
[How To](mangolassi.it/tags/how to)
... so it doesn't work. lol
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@DustinB3403 said:
@JaredBusch Yeah I tried it with the hyperlink bit, and it did this
[How To](mangolassi.it/tags/how to)
... so it doesn't work. lol
kind of sad the built in parser cannot handle spaces.
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http://mangolassi.it/tags/how to
If you copy and paste right from the URL, it works.
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Something like ELK, Splunk or Greylog would be good experiences.
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Hello! That's a snazzy bow tie!!
Sorry to hear about the job, opportunity sounds pretty good though.
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Wow, NodeBB makes ugly links
http://mangolassi.it/tags/how%20toIt would be much better to replace spaces with "-" like wordpress does:
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@MattSpeller Thanks for the kind words! Yeah at my last job, I used to wear a bowtie every Wednesday (bowtie wednesday) to spice things up in the dep't. This next opportunity should be killer!
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@antonit said:
@MattSpeller Thanks for the kind words! Yeah at my last job, I used to wear a bowtie every Wednesday (bowtie wednesday) to spice things up in the dep't. This next opportunity should be killer!
You need to make that your avatar.
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Other ideas... IRC server inside the lab and a StatusNET system.
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An OpenFire 4.x server would be good, too.
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@antonit Having some Python/BASH scripting examples for basic tasks might not be a bad idea. You could chuck them out on github and pull them down for demo/explanation in realtime. Might earn some brownie points...
I don't know much about the environment, but knowing your way around a couple of popular version control systems might be helpful as well. You could build your own Subversion and Git servers for hosting repositories.
You might also look at implementing an instance of Redmine for project management.
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He is building out a MariaDB server right now.
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What about something such as a satellite server?
