Greetings!
My name is Eddie Jennings, Jr., and I'm an IT generalist and system
administrator who has been working in the Windows administration space for
almost 8 years. For the last couple of years, I've been looking for
opportunities to move into the Linux adminstration realm. I've been a Fedora
user for several years, and I figure contributing to the infrastructure team
would be an opportunity to both gain experience as well as give to the
community.
Here's the information requested from the Getting Started wiki page.
IRC handle: eddiejennings
Skills I can offer:
- basic BASH and strong PowerShell scripting knowledge
- network device configuration and troubleshooting (routers / firewalls and
switches)
- network service configuration and troubleshooting: DNS (BIND and Windows
DNS), DHCP (dhcpd and Windows DHCP), load balancing and reverse proxy (Citrix
NetScaler), E-mail (Exchange (on-prem hybrid, and online), Cisco IronPort,
Postfix (as a relay)), directory services (Active Directory)
- management and configuration of KVM, Hyper-V, and ESXi (am the most familiar
with Hyper-V)
- basic VoIP (deployed and managed FreePBX)
- basic storage knowledge: LVM and working with ext4, xfs file systems. From
the Windows world SMB shares, DFS, and NTFS file systems
- fundamental knowledge of administering Linux system (more much familiar with
RHEL than Debian-based systems)
- basic Ansible knowledge
Certifications
- currently pursuing RHCE certification and hope to sit the exam in August
- RHCSA v8 (August 2020)
- LPI Linux Essentials (August 2019)
Skills I want to gain or sharpen (no particular order and not an exhaustive
list):
- Using Ansible for infrastructure management
- Deeper knowledge of using KVM
- Deeper networking skills and knowledge of tools (such as becoming familiar
with nftables instead of always relying on firewalld, become familiar with
WireGuard, leveraging NginX and HAProxy)
- Proficiency with git or other source control systems (ties into working
Ansible)
- Deeper storage knowledge (leveraging snapshot technology of LVM or file
systems like BTRFS, understanding of using SANs to provide block storage)
- More proficiency with data backup tools and best practices
- Basic database configuration and administration
Current Issues that pique my interest:
There are two EasyFix tickets regarding Ansible, with which I'd like to see if
I can help. There is ticket #9852 regarding DNS that is interesting, as well
as #9683 about logging into RedHat bugzilla -- seems like an opportunity to
become with an authentication system that isn't Active Directory.
I hope this introduction was not too long-winded, but I figure the more I list,
the easier it will be to see where I might be able to contribute. I'm looking
forwarding to meeting and learning from everyone!
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Eddie Jennings, Jr.
https://www.eddiejennings.net/
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