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title = "Notes After a Year at My Current Job"
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description = "Musings on assorted Linux and personal things"
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date = 2024-09-04
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# updated = 2024-09-04
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#draft = true
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About a year ago, I started working for a new company.
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This was a major shift for me as I'd gone from being a fully-remote penetration tester with a focus on Windows to an on-site systems engineer with a focus on Linux.
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This post is some of my thoughts on the change, and things I've learned about my work and myself in that time.
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- I *really* enjoy being a Linux admin more than a Windows admin.
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I prefer the tooling and being able to do most of my work over SSH.
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- I need to have some kind of project tracking like a kanban board so that I don't get lost in a list of 700 tasks.
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- I can learn a *lot* through hands-on work and troubleshooting.
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I already kind of knew this one but not how *much* I could learn.
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A year ago, I had never heard of Satellite and Ansible was something I used in a class one time.
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Today, I'm the SME for Satellite at the company and leading our Ansible Automation Platform deployment project.
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- Red Hat has wonderful people working for them.
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Everyone I've met on sales calls, in workshops, and at the Summit has been a pleasure to talk to.
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- It is so much fun having Linux nerds to talk to who aren't developers.
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That's not a jab against developers, but there is a difference between a Linux nerd who mostly talks about programming new drivers and a Linux nerd who knows how to write Systemd unit files.
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- I *loathe* driving into an office.
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I had an hour-long commute each way for most of the past year.
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It was a huge waste of time, energy, and (gas) money.
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- I also strongly dislike *being in* an office.
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I never felt unsafe or anything, but I never felt comfortable either.
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- Basic `vim` usage is worth it to learn.
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I originally did so because `nano` wasn't available on all of the servers I was managing.
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I continue to use it as my default because it feels a little more ergonomic than the alternatives.
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- Ansible is incredibly satisfying.
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There's nothing quite like going from base installation to a working service in 2 minutes with one command.
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- There are plenty of tricks and tools that I have no idea about yet but will change the way I work as soon as I learn them. For example:
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- `bash`'s `Ctrl-r` to do a substring search on history instead of tapping the up key a bunch
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- `at` to schedule one-off commands
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- Everything related to Ansible
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I may add to this post as I think of more.
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