This is a month-long challenge for anyone wanting to build Linux sysadmin skills that I launched via a post here two months 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 on Monday 6 April, so plenty of time to get yourself organised if you're up for the challenge. Subscribe to the subreddit, and read the "Day 0" posts there.
It's now run for two months:
Participants? Well, 77 people subscribed to the subreddit for the first month - 599 for the second. Will be very interesting to see how we go in April with so many people being on some sort of lockdown or WFH.
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 but for April I'll again 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 still depends entirely on me getting out of bed and doing it every morning! Working on making a little Python bot however.
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