SysOps 4 Life

What is SysOps?
SysOps vs DevOps
SysOps Mantra
  - Document
  - Repeatable process
  - Runbook
  - Smooth operator

Systems Operations
  - Clusters
  - Operating System patching
  - Operating System hardening
  - Ports, firewalls, and permissions
  - Resillience and redundancies

Chaos Engineering
  - Netflix
  - Break your systems
    -- Safe ways to practice
    -- Remove server from load balancers
    -- Setup test/performance environment
    -- Plan for regular business day
    -- Notify your clients

Backup Plan
  - Have a backup
  - Restore from backup
  - Automate backups (and restoring)
  - Gameplan for failure

Know Your Systems
  - What is behind the stack
  - Start/Stopping/Managing services
  - Monitoring more than disk and CPU

Certs
  - AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
  - Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert
  - RedHat Certified Engineer