As one who has to manage an HA pair of PaloAltos AND Fortigates, the FortiUpgrade is just so stupid easy & quick. I don’t understand why people would wait longer than a week or two for the ‘bleeding edge’ people to test first.
Then again, my configuration is so basic there’s not much to go wrong.
Howdy! I actually left /r/sysadmin a long time ago because I found that 90% of posts were just salty IT techs bitching about dumb end users. While I definitely understand the frustration after 15 years in IT, I always hoped for a slightly more constructive community. Hopefully this can be that place!
I was happy to see the FortiCloud interface was updated recently, and pushing this update was about as easy as can be. I updated over 25 devices in a span of about 2 hours the other night and it all went without a hitch.
Yes, but the number of hours they can withstand these reads is rather insane. I’ve seen SAS level drives with millions of hours of runtime and no bad blocks. They are pretty robust these days!
I actually really appreciate just whipping out my phone and hitting “Adopt” when I am setting up new hardware at a site (UniFi stuff). It gets added, updated, and it’s done. Then I can leave and go manage it from the office.
LFCS should be on par with RHCSA. CKA is also a good certificate which should get you a good return.
From my point the RHCSA is still a valid exam despite RedHats recent moves. HR Drones and Managers won’t care what RedHat is doing as long as they are supporting their products.
The whole sudden shutting down of source code repos thereby putting the future of Rocky/Alma at risk, leading to a follow-on effect of sysadmins migrating away from Rocky/Alma and swearing off RH/RH-derived stuff in general.
This is the straw that broke the camel’s back. Red Hat has gotten greedier and greedier since IBM bought it. 99.99% of my work is new RHEL installs, and we are looking at Ubuntu & SLES lately.
Some, yes. I think it still being Red Hat adjacent has us talking about the other two more. Should be interesting to see how it plays out. I doubt much will change and we’ll have to keep having difficult conversations with customers about RH license costs.
Would a sysadmin really be looking to move away from a Red Hat certification track just because RH behaved like a for-profit corporation? I think it’s naive to assume this will have much of an impact on the reputation and desirability of an RH cert in the business world.
But, I suppose if you just want to avoid giving RH your testing money, then the Linux Foundation certs would be fine.
Redhat made it against their terms to rebadge rhel as another distro and locked their source behind a paywall basically, theres more to it but thats the jist
Grandfathering Alma and Rocky, though, correct? I’d find it hard to believe they’d take CentOS, then try to eliminate Alma and Rocky. If there is anything keeping RH alive its that community to enterprise pipeline…
No grandfathering. Alma and rocky are working on a way to continue. The reason was not specifically given but they believe that the community doesn’t provide an equal share of value.
My guess is the NASA/qci contract to provide rocky Linux support.
It this type of thinking that will drive up the value of the RH certifications. The community oriented people will go do something else and there will be less people certified on a stack that is used by large enterprises.
Look at Cisco and the CCNA. Cisco isn’t a nice and friendly FOSS company they are greedy AF, people still get the CCNA because its valuable to large enterprises that don’t care about nice and friendly FOSS companies.
It depends entirely on your own risk analysis. We can’t make this decision for you without knowing the details (and if you want to give details, let me know where I should submit the consulting invoice).
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