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Ops School – Comprehensive Program to Become an Operations Engineer

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Post by deathtrader666 » Wed, Apr 22, 2015, 2:06 PM UTC

Ops School – Comprehensive Program to Become an Operations Engineer
opsschool.org

Re: Ops School – Comprehensive Program to Become an Operations Engineer

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Post by ams6110 » Wed, Apr 22, 2015, 6:43 PM UTC

Not to be confused with operating engineers (which I was, initially)

http://www.iuoe.org/

Re: Ops School – Comprehensive Program to Become an Operations Engineer

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Post by sciurus » Wed, Apr 22, 2015, 7:06 PM UTC

On the topic of learning ops, I want to second my recommendation from another thread for "The Practice of System and Network Administration" and "The Practice of Cloud System Administration"

These books focus on principles, rather than specific technologies, and I love them for it.

http://everythingsysadmin.com/books.html

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Post by mhurron » Wed, Apr 22, 2015, 7:51 PM UTC

It's sysadmin day on HN.

Re: Ops School – Comprehensive Program to Become an Operations Engineer

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Post by deanclatworthy » Wed, Apr 22, 2015, 7:58 PM UTC

This is an incredibly detailed resource. How long has this project been around? Can't wait to start reading :)

How hard would it be to generate an ebook from the source material? This'd be nice to read on my kindle to/from the office.

Re: Ops School – Comprehensive Program to Become an Operations Engineer

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Post by Animats » Wed, Apr 22, 2015, 7:58 PM UTC

One of the good parts: "A very important skill to learn is the ability to remain calm in the face of disaster. It’s not always easy, especially with a client on the phone, but panicking will only make a situation worse. Yes, the most critical server in the infrastructure may have just completely failed without a backup. Instead of focusing on what will happen as a result of the crisis, focus on what needs to be done to bring the system back up. Deal with the results later, after fixing the immediate failure. The fallout of the crisis might be terrible, but it will almost certainly be worse if the immediate problem isn’t fixed. A calm mind can carefully analyze a situation to determine the best solution. Panic responses do not benefit from the same calculating rationality."

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Post by yeukhon » Wed, Apr 22, 2015, 8:53 PM UTC

sciurus wrote: post #3

On the topic of learning ops, I want to second my recommendation from another thread for "The Practice of System and Network Administration" and "The Practice of Cloud System Administration" These books focus on principles, rather than specific technologies, and I love them for it. http://everythingsysadmin.com/books.html

Also include Phoenix Project

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Post by justizin » Wed, Apr 22, 2015, 9:02 PM UTC

deanclatworthy wrote: post #5

This is an incredibly detailed resource. How long has this project been around? Can't wait to start reading :) How hard would it be to generate an ebook from the source material? This'd be nice to read on my kindle to/from the office.

It has a lot of stub sections which need help being fleshed out, we should all pick an area we're strong in and pitch in.

I think this is likely to shape up as less of a "school" or "course" than the DevOps equivalent of the anarchist's cookbook.

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Post by wyclif » Wed, Apr 22, 2015, 9:22 PM UTC

mhurron wrote: post #4

It's sysadmin day on HN.

I welcome this, though. Too often the importance of good sysadmin and good ops gets lost among other topics like language advocacy, product announcements, VC rounds, bug bounty humblebrags, or .

Re: Ops School – Comprehensive Program to Become an Operations Engineer

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Post by nodesocket » Wed, Apr 22, 2015, 9:24 PM UTC

Absolutely amazing work. That must have taken a great deal of time, effort, and patience.

I'm the founder of a company (https://commando.io) that provides a web-based distributed ssh interface, with auditing, scheduling, and GitHub deployments all baked in, but the biggest hurdle for us, is teaching ops. Projects like opsschool, help bridge this gap. Thanks!