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