I'm excited and a bit nervous, I've now got a couple days of teaching done, and we've had a few wrinkles but I'm starting to get into the groove. I'm new to Canvas and its been a heavier lift then I anticipated. One easy thing the other instructor suggested was …
read moreWork on slides and lms
I've been working on slides and preparing learning materials, and spent a very small bit of time reworking the netboot stuff after doing a bunch of network re-jigging. I've done a session on basic security and password managers, recorded a walkthrough on using wordpress as a kearning journal, and done …
read moreCleaning and migrating
At month's end, I'll be losing the free t4 trial and need to offload some of that stuff elsewhere. I also want to clean up some older snapshots and AMIs that I have, as well as delete some of the S3 buckets I created doing the SysOps Admin labs. I …
read moreFeel busy but not doing deep learning
I've been busy the last little bit with various things and I've been reading and following stuff, but haven't done any deep dives into new material. On my short radar includes getting Netboot to work and standing up some Kubernetes stuff there, but I just haven't had a chance to …
read moreNow have an aws certification
After a lot of studying, I now have my first AWS certification, YAY! First things first -- the exam is tougher than it should be, because instead of focusing on the already challenging core of cloud (compute, storage, networking along with managing scale and doing orchestration) you also have to know …
read moreCloud conferences
So, I've stopped by a few conferences lately, so time to dish a bit. The other day I stopped by jFrog's swampUp conf, which had a good session by Anais and another by Kat Cosgrove about teaching Kubernetes that I found great. Earlier today there was Dockercon, which featured Anais …
read moreAuto scaling and Cloud Formation
After talking to a colleague about taking some sample tests (and finally getting over the nominal passing hump), I bit the bulket and paid for another prep course. This one is a bit broader, and covers many of the topics that seemed like surprises in the first test or two …
read moreCertification blues
I'm studying hard to get my ducks in a row to write one of the AWS exams, and it seems like its a lot of wasted work. I actually spent some good time and went through a prep course (which was helpful and had some good labs), but it isn't …
read moreMore emphasis on aws for a bit
Sometimes you need focus, and this happens to be one of those times. I need to get a bit more understanding on the paticular AWS ecosystem I'm working with at the moment, and I'm doing so by learning as much as I can about the various AWS tools and products …
read moreWorking a bit on cloud foundations
While my focus is to learn about Containers and how they work in the Cloud, I'm trying not to neglect some of the basics along the way. To take a more cloud native approach, I'm looking through both Kubernetes the hard way and working through the AWS tutorial on the …
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