I can see my house from here!

Where's the car?

I am reading and working with anything Gnu/Linux related that comes my way - in an attempt to gain some understanding and experience. I'm starting to see the picture at some of the detailed levels, but they are not consistent between their parts. Only general rules for each silo of exploration. I figure that I need a better road-map to studying so that I reach the "broad understandings" that one gets from an applied education.

In attempting to determine what to study first I surveyed jobs on Dice using the term "Linux Admin". From those I pulled the requirements and counted how may times a particular skill came up, and how many a particular area was either directly asked for or was implied as important by asking for a skill that applied to that area. What I ended up with surprised me as I got both a priority of subject area and a priority of subject depth in which to pursue.

		Area	Particulars (As of April 6th 2013)
		Everyone	CLI, Apache (install and maintenance, not code)
		OS	Red Hat & CEntOS, Widows, Scientific, Gentoo
		DB	MySQL, PostGRE, Oracle, MS SQL
		Scripting	Bash/sh, Python, Perl, Ruby
		Network	Firewalls, Routers, SNMP, Load Balancing, Mail, FTP
		Tools	Puppet, Nagios, NGing, Varnish, Git/GitHub, Svn
		Big Stuff	VMWare Sphere, AWS, SAN/NAS, LDAP/AD Exchange
		Themes	Configuration Management Monitor & Backup Version Control Security
		Certs	RHEL, Cisco
		Misc	Sed, Awk, Grep, Vim/Vi

It was then easy to align this with the project I was currently involved with. That helped me direct my study while directing my work efforts which made a real win-win for me finally. Don't see a lot of those anymore. Only downside is the legacy system I am on uses Zabbix which is NEVER asked for in the tools area. People who use it love it, and on paper it seems to do more. Guess we shall see.

REFS:

Dice

Closing thought(s):

I think if one knows any two of each area, you would be sitting rather pretty.