Hi, I've pinched a thread and changed the title. Kelly, you mentioned Ansible which is something I am very interested in learning more about as it is increasingly discussed and used in my area at work. I have tried to use the training provided by Red Hat via the SumTotal training system but it is not at all good access-wise. I did also try to do some AWS training through amazon but found that they also used the sumTotal system and this meant the AWS training was equally inaccessible. Have you or anyone else found good accessible training courses for Ansible particularly? I know, as we all do, that the best training is to get on and do it but that isn't always possible in the work situation so I was looking for some kind of training I could follow that is reasonably accessible. Thanks, Phil. -----Original Message----- From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Kelly Prescott Sent: 19 May 2018 02:15 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] AWS administration I am late to this reply, but I also use awscli I use it on my Linux machine in the shell and it has python bindings so I can write python to do stuff. I am starting to try and use ansible to make aws configs and I'll see how that goes. I think I started using the cli interface to AWS in either 2010 or 2011. -- Kelly Prescott On Wed, 16 May 2018, Ian Sharpe wrote: pipeline?
With regards to Terraform... I was under the impression that this was used
to essentially "terra form" an entire environment, rather than actually enable you to manage resources within an existing environment? To create and manage an environment template if you will. However, from you say, it sounds like it is much more than this so may be I need to take another look at is as I know Azure support Terraform as well.
[mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson they've been all over it, but not on this occasion unfortunately. They also said that they didn't provide a command line tool to manage AWS resources, as is the case with Powershell or the Azure CLI and Azure.
As a result, I decided my time would be better spent focusing on Azure.
Indeed, I decided not to apply for a couple of roles which were advertised recently because they involved AWS.
So I'd be really interested to hear whether others are able to manage AWS
resources using a screen reader and whether they feel they can be reasonably productive?
[mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Hodgson the best way I feel I cam sum up the process. I have done these simulation questions with a reader and it is all very much dependant on the technical expertees of the reader at the time. I spent a lot of money in 2011 getting certified with a load of MS qualifications, and I don't anticipate getting any further ones anytime soon because of the trouble it took. What is worse is we can now do these exams from home with a webcam, which means that a lot of test centres have shut down. However if you need special circumstances you can't do it from home at all.
On the other hand I am wondering whether employers are asking for these as
much as they used to? Maybe the type of work I am doing doesn't warrant them so much (working with mainly cloud automation in Azure and AWS).
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Bookshare.org has mastering ansible second ed. This is a good book to start with. I subscribe to safaribooksonline, and while it is on the pricy side, it is worth it as I can access the entire library,. I find that books work fine for me. I don't have to deal with any presenter issues, and I also find I can work at my own pace. On Sat, 19 May 2018, Phil Rigby wrote:
Hi, I agree about the books. I have used a couple of ebooks I have got from various places for Chef and DSC training which is the same thing only different stacks. I also use Pluralsight as well as although you can't see the videos they can be quite informative, and a lot of companies have company accounts. All of this needs to be backed up with learning and practise yourself though as you are basically coding, and if you are not used to that you have to experience the pitfalls and early programming mistakes. I think this is the one issue with this type of technology, it is hard for people who are not used to development workflows to get into it, especially if they are supporting a live environment and have a main dayjob. Wherever I have worked with this tech there is always a huge blocker of getting existing teams on board with the way of working and technology, which is why a lot of larger companies set up smaller startup type workforces which have their own problems re-integrating into the enterprise again. Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Blind-sysadmins [blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] on behalf of Kelly Prescott [kprescott@coolip.net] Sent: 22 May 2018 00:30 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Ansible training Bookshare.org has mastering ansible second ed. This is a good book to start with. I subscribe to safaribooksonline, and while it is on the pricy side, it is worth it as I can access the entire library,. I find that books work fine for me. I don't have to deal with any presenter issues, and I also find I can work at my own pace. On Sat, 19 May 2018, Phil Rigby wrote:
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Hi, I agree about the books. I have used a couple of ebooks I have got from various places for Chef and DSC training which is the same thing only different stacks. I also use Pluralsight as well as although you can't see the videos they can be quite informative, and a lot of companies have company accounts. All of this needs to be backed up with learning and practise yourself though as you are basically coding, and if you are not used to that you have to experience the pitfalls and early programming mistakes. I think this is the one issue with this type of technology, it is hard for people who are not used to development workflows to get into it, especially if they are supporting a live environment and have a main dayjob. Wherever I have worked with this tech there is always a huge blocker of getting existing teams on board with the way of working and technology, which is why a lot of larger companies set up smaller startup type workforces which have their own problems re-integrating into the enterprise again. Andrew. ________________________________________ From: Blind-sysadmins [blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] on behalf of Kelly Prescott [kprescott@coolip.net] Sent: 22 May 2018 00:30 To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Ansible training Bookshare.org has mastering ansible second ed. This is a good book to start with. I subscribe to safaribooksonline, and while it is on the pricy side, it is worth it as I can access the entire library,. I find that books work fine for me. I don't have to deal with any presenter issues, and I also find I can work at my own pace. On Sat, 19 May 2018, Phil Rigby wrote:
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