Favorite links and pages of the week
by Mike Randall (Red Hat)
Below are links to some pages and articles we found this week and really liked.
Red Hat
Check out the latest Guaranteed-to-run course schedule, RedHat
Power Training at Red Hat Summit, RedHat
GUEST POST: Preparing for Red Hat exams, ServicesSpeak
WEBINAR: Learn the 5 critical capabilities for cloud, RedHat
10 certifications that actually mean something, GlobalKnowledge
JBoss BRMS (BPM) car insurance demo, EricSchabell
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Guest Post: Preparing for Red Hat exams
By Damian Tommasino
Why Certify?
The demand for Linux engineers today is growing rapidly with the increase of “cloud” services. More and more organizations want their data to be available everywhere they go with zero downtime to their applications. This kind of demand from organizations requires that engineers know their “stuff” cold. When a web server goes down or a disk fails, you don’t have time to Google for an answer while there is a service outage affecting all of your customers. Becoming Red Hat certified is just one way to set yourself apart when showing potential, or current, employers that you can rise to the challenge.
Red Hat has clearly recognized these types of challenges that engineers and administrators face today when they developed their exams. Instead of the normal Q & A you would expect, these exams are fully hands-on. This lab style exam format helps to set Red Hat apart from other vendors by showing that certified individuals are highly experienced in their roles. For me, having Linux experience is critical to my job and being certified (from multiple vendors) shows expertise to my clients and peers.
Exam Format
The two main Red Hat exams are the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam, and the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) exam. As previously mentioned, each exam is completely hands-on and requires a solid proficiency of Red Hat Enterprise Linux in order to pass. The RHCSA is two and half (2.5) hours long, while the RHCE is two (2) hours.
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Favorite links and pages of the week
by Mike Randall (Red Hat)
Below are links to some pages and articles we found this week and really liked.
Red Hat
Check out the latest Guaranteed-to-run course schedule, RedHat
Power Training at Red Hat Summit, RedHat
What if you could make DevOps easy and reliable?, ServicesSpeak
Red Hat OpenStack is only way to avoid cloud lock-in, V3
Red Hat: The industry’s choice is open or die, ReadWriteWeb
Open source tech is driving big change in government, NextGov
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What if you could make DevOps easy and reliable?
by Jurgen Hoffman (Red Hat)
OpenShift is great! Developers can quickly start development on a new project. Just log into the web console, create a new application, select a gear and start coding. When you are done implementing a feature you push to OpenShift and after a few seconds you can admire and share your work with the whole world.
But there is more to consider when working with OpenShift. What if you develop in teams? Usually applications are not directly deployed into production. How can I implement a staging process harnessing the OpenShift Infrastructure? How do I know if my changes passed an Acceptance Test or failed it? How does a test team know which features have been implemented?
The answer to these questions are usually not easy, and every company has implemented their own set of processes to address these problems. Although some Organizations have automated some of their IT Infrastructure, there are still a lot of manual processes and changes involved when it comes down to taking a particular software release from development into production. On the other hand, the business stakeholders have a high interest into a fast and efficient Release process, because every day that my feature is not in production and available to my users, is lowering my ROI.
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