RHCSA

Last year, together with my colleagues Miguel and Scott, we released with the help of Packt team the RHEL8 Administration. During this one, with the collaboration of Pedro, a long-time colleague from the University LUG, we worked on the updated Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Administration book that it’s now available for preorder on Amazon. As with the previous version, the book targets users willing to learn skills to administer Red Hat Enterprise Linux or compatible systems. It is a hands-on guide to the administration and can be used as reference thanks to the real-life examples provided along the text. ...

I did the RHCE exam some time ago, and still there are some tricks and advices I tell the people to bear in mind some of the things I used and that were also provided in the Red Hat Enterprise 8 Administration book: Don’t remember every step, it’s not effective, for example as I don’t recall syntax for BIND, I do remember package that has some files with examples and I use that one to check what I need to do Install mlocate and run updatedb as soon as you start, then you can use locate <file> to find out files in your system Use your preferred editor… it’s common to use vi or vim as it’s pretty standard, but if you’re used to another, make yourself comfortable in the system. As one instructor like to say: “Anyone with unlimited amount of time will be able to pass the exam”. RHCE is a performance-based exam, that means that you need to cover all the required goals within the exam duration, and in the end, the goals is to accomplish, not to do in the smarter way. For example, if you’re told to configure resolv.conf you can either use nmcli to modify the settings or you can pipe the results to it via echo nameserver 1.1.1.1 > /etc/resolv.conf, in the end, both will have the same effect, and of course, using nmcli will be smarter when you’re keeping multiple systems and using automation… but for the exam, the goal is to focus on the fastest path to master at it. You can find more tricks at Red Hat Enterprise 8 Administration Enjoy! (and if you do, you can Buy Me a Coffee ) ...

I wanted to write about my experience (before I forget about it), and as some colleagues asked about it… here we go… As published in the blog entry RHEL8 Administration book, some colleagues and I wrote a book on RHEL8 administration, which can be bought here. Many years ago I started one about Linux, but every time a new paragraph was added, a lot of new ‘TO-DO’ items were appended as the information growth… and as it was a ‘solo’ project, I had other stuff to work on and was parked. ...

After some time working on it (about 6 months for the main work and some more time for the reviews) with my colleagues Miguel and Scott, we’ve finally made it thanks to the support from our families and Packt, as well as several members of RH teams that gave the clearance to get it out! The book targets users willing to learn skills to administer Red Hat Enterprise Linux or compatible systems. It is a hands-on guide to the administration and can be used as reference thanks to the real-life examples provided along the text. ...