This is a month-long challenge for anyone wanting to build Linux sysadmin skills that I launched via a post here a month ago.
"Daily lessons appear in the sub-reddit /r/linuxupskillchallenge - which is also be used for support/discussion. This is a 'rolling' course repeated each month. Does require some serious commitment, but if gaining/growing these skills was one of your New Years Resolutions, then you now have no excuse! " The course, in /r/linuxupskillchallenge, is about to 'reset' and start from the beginning again this coming Monday, so it's worth reviewing how it's gone:
- Participants? Well, there are 77 people subscribed to the subreddit, but I've seen comments from at least one person who is doing the course but hasn't subscribed - and not all that subscribed may be participating. It *would* be nice to have a better way to judge numbers, but as long as there's a dozen or so that's fine.
- Feedback has been positive, and I think that the key feature - we're working on a "real server", remote and exposed to the internet - helps in building a "sysadmin mindset".
- Lesson "rollover". Leaving just five lessons "up" at a time has been a bit controversial, with a few coming late to the party, or IRL events meaning they struggle to keep up. For March I'll run it the same way, as this is a pretty core part of the concept. Note that the raw content is all available at https://github.com/snori74/linuxupskillchallenge
- Automation? The "magic" that makes a new lesson appear and the oldest lesson disappear?- this depends entirely on me getting out of bed and doing it every morning! OK for a month, and I'll manage March as well I expect, but it would be nice to have it Just Happen somehow. Looks like I may need to write a little Python...
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