Last week I spent most of my time brushing up on Linux System Administration and virtualization. I interviewed for a Linux Administrator role. Unfortunately I wasn’t selected after the interviewing process. It was a great learning experience for sure. Panel interviews can be difficult to prepare for, but I want to keep improving and sharing my journey with you all.
After the interview, I emailed the recruiter for feedback. Configuration management platforms like Ansbile was one of the feedback points. I have used puppet in the past, but not ansible. I will be focusing some of my study on those areas of feedback. I will work on deploying a few different config management (ansible and puppet) in my home environment and virtual machines.
This week I’ve expanded my environment a bit at home:
- Dell Precision T5810 (old dell tower with a xeon chip)
- Mini PC EliteMini HX90 (AMD Ryzen 9 Processor)
- synology Diskstation DS220+ (NAS)
I loaded up XCP-ng on the Dell tower. XPC-ng is basically a Xen Server clone or Citrix Server. I’m mostly using it to deploy Rocky Server and Ubuntu Server virtual machines to emulate business environments.
The mini pc will host mostly containers, k8s, and desktop virtual machines.
The NAS will be used to host everything I need. ISOs, databackups, etc.