Today we talk about when you need to move on in your career, establishing goals, and the end game. For Phil and I, it seems to be Site Reliability Engineering. 

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Today we talk servers! Linux servers to be more precise. 

- First experiences with Linux servers.

- Use cases, projects, and job related tasks. 

- ESXi vs KVM.

- Random thoughts on languages and future roles.

- Closing thoughts. 

Hello everybody out there using minix –

I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things).

I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them 🙂

Linus ([email protected])

PS. Yes – it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.

Confession by Chris, Mike's impressions on Linux, and a whole lot of GNU/Fun.

AWS: IAM: - Users o Read permissions o Write permissions o Full Access o Root user - Access Keys - Secret Keys - AWS Profiles S3: - Data in S3 - Where the data is being stored in S3 - Public buckets vs private - Encrypted buckets - Permissions for groups and users on the buckets (read/write/full) CloudFormation: - Data that's being put into stack templates - Where those stacks are being stored - Storing stacks in private buckets in S3 vs somewhere else (OneDrive, GoogleDrive, GitHub, etc) EC2: - Who has access to spin up EC2 instances - Public IP's vs private IP's - Security Groups for instances o What ports are open o Where instances are able to be accessed from Data in the cloud: - Data is still your data: Store it wisely

Code in the cloud - GitHub o Private repos o Public repos o Credentials to those repos - Other cloud based repos

The last episode on Season 2! It was a short one, but we feel we covered the major components of what it takes to evolve as a Systems Administrator in the modern era.

We also congratulate Mike on his new job, his second Father's Day, discuss our migration to the software realm, and talk about health in a world of stimulants and sedentary careers. 

Thanks for listening! Heading into Season 3 we're going to talk more about the world of Linux, Information Security (Red Team and Blue Team), Automation, and Software Engineering. 

Phil: 

•  Webscraping with python 
• Saltstack  

https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/topics/installation/index.html  

Writing basic yaml and using jinja 

• Zabbix: Triggers 

Mike: 

IIS

SCCM

PowerShell

WSL

Chris: 

https://wiki.osdev.org/Expanded_Main_Page 

Refreshing C++ and C 

Golang and Rust

https://www.openstack.org 

Ubuntu Server 16.04.4 

OpenStack

Docker and Docker Compose

Security Lab 

Fedora 28

Fedora SecLabs

BackBox

REMnux

Wireshark

Hacking: The Art of Exploitation

https://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Art-Exploitation-Jon-Erickson/dp/1593271441/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=

The Shellcoder's Handbook

https://www.amazon.com/Shellcoders-Handbook-Discovering-Exploiting-Security/dp/047008023X/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=

Hacker Sites:

http://pwnable.kr/play.php

http://io.netgarage.org

Due to previous obligations and observance of Memorial Day, we will not have an episode this weekend. 

A brief update:

Mike spoke at Microsoft -- Congrats Mike, one more step to that Microsoft MVP!

Programming for Admins has been released. A little different than initially planned, but should provide some perspective. 

https://youtu.be/tr7p0QbFf5Q

Docker Primer. A MongoDB container via Dockerfile! Super excited to start this series. 

https://youtu.be/4k8LPDzSl-4

We received our first feedback from the companion series. Chris will (not) hold his breath for the next release :D

Thank you all for listening and subscribing. Let us know if you have any feedback.

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Ramblings are free of charge. We were all a little tired at the time of recording ;)

What's new? 

• Chris moved 
• Dr. Mike 
• Phil is still awesome 

Azure vs AWS Networking 

• Team Blue vs Team Orange 
• Overall architecture looks the similar 
• Separate vocabulary 
• Similar regions (possible tax incentive) 

Other Platforms 

• Google Cloud Platform 
• RedHat OpenShift 
• Digital Ocean 
• OpenStack (Private Cloud) 

Separate from the Rest 

• AWS and Azure offerings that differ from Digital Ocean 
• (Off Topic) -- Heroku vs IaaS 

First Experiences 

• Chris broke e-mail and Workspaces 
• Phil took Route 53 the wrong way 
• Mike's tip of the day: "It's all the same thing" 

What Phil Actually Does 

• Top Secret 
• Covert Ops 
• High Risk High Reward 

Networking As Code 

• CloudFormation 
• SaltStack 
• Ansible 

VMware NSX 

https://www.vmware.com/products/nsx.html 

Networking Experiences 

How we got started. 

Phil - Java for an easy A.

Mike - PowerShell: Windows all the way, baby.

Chris - C and C++ grades on Pointer test. 

The big languages:

Python 

https://nostarch.com/pythoncrashcourse 

https://automatetheboringstuff.com/ 

PowerShell (C# for the "backend" of PowerShell) 

https://www.manning.com/books/learn-windows-powershell-in-a-month-of-lunches-second-edition 

https://www.manning.com/books/learn-powershell-scripting-in-a-month-of-lunches 

https://leanpub.com/powershell-scripting-toolmaking 

https://www.amazon.com/C-7-0-Nutshell-Definitive-Reference/dp/1491987650 

Bash 

https://www.amazon.com/Linux-Command-Shell-Scripting-Bible/dp/111898384X/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=HACF0344CP9XBGK7TW9R 

Go 

https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1 

Ruby 

https://www.amazon.com/Head-First-Ruby-Brain-Friendly-Guide-ebook/dp/B0189VGJ74/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1 

Links 

https://frontsidethepodcast.simplecast.fm/50 

https://leanpub.com/u/donjones 

https://twitter.com/therollbak

Weird scratching sound throughout the show – An evil kitten was on the prowl. He will not be permitted to future meetings ;) 

Season 2 Topics: 

• Configuration Management 
• Programming for Admins 
• Saas, IaaS, and PaaS: 

1) Azure 

2) AWS 

3) Digital Ocean 

4) Heroku 

• Containers 

Video Series 

• Chef 
• PowerShell DSC 
• Puppet 

systemanalyzer.py 

The program the team is working on to capture real time utilization and generate reports on that information. We use native modules to determine the operating system, and then call PowerShell or Bash based on that variable. Terminal application for now, but soon to have a GUI that can export or view reports.  

The rollBak GitHub, Social Media, and YouTube! 

GitHub: Coming soon! Next episode for sure 

Social Media: Soon.jpeg 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2fS2pWTm62pucc0VBUAvjA -- More videos to come.  

Windows DO Droplet:  

https://steemit.com/tech/@hursh/tutorials-how-to-install-windows-on-digital-ocean 

DevOps with Netflix: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTKIT6STSVM