Meeting Agenda Item: Introduction Your Name Eddie Jennings, Jr.

[Eddie Jennings]

Greetings!

 

My name is Eddie Jennings, Jr., and I'm an IT generalist and system administrator who has been working in the Windows administration space for almost 8 years.  For the last couple of years, I've been looking for opportunities to move into the Linux adminstration realm.  I've been a Fedora user for several years, and I figure contributing to the infrastructure team would be an opportunity to both gain experience as well as give to the community.

 

Here's the information requested from the Getting Started wiki page.

 

IRC handle:  eddiejennings

 

Skills I can offer:

- basic BASH and strong PowerShell scripting knowledge

- network device configuration and troubleshooting (routers / firewalls and switches)

- network service configuration and troubleshooting:  DNS (BIND and Windows DNS), DHCP (dhcpd and Windows DHCP), load balancing and reverse proxy (Citrix NetScaler), E-mail (Exchange (on-prem hybrid, and online), Cisco IronPort, Postfix (as a relay)), directory services (Active Directory)

- management and configuration of KVM, Hyper-V, and ESXi (am the most familiar with Hyper-V)

- basic VoIP (deployed and managed FreePBX)

- basic storage knowledge:  LVM and working with ext4, xfs file systems. From the Windows world SMB shares, DFS, and NTFS file systems

- fundamental knowledge of administering Linux system (more much familiar with RHEL than Debian-based systems)

- basic Ansible knowledge

 

Certifications

- currently pursuing RHCE certification and hope to sit the exam in August

- RHCSA v8 (August 2020)

- LPI Linux Essentials (August 2019)

 

Skills I want to gain or sharpen (no particular order and not an exhaustive list):

- Using Ansible for infrastructure management

- Deeper knowledge of using KVM

- Deeper networking skills and knowledge of tools (such as becoming familiar with nftables instead of always relying on firewalld, become familiar with WireGuard, leveraging NginX and HAProxy)

- Proficiency with git or other source control systems (ties into working Ansible)

- Deeper storage knowledge (leveraging snapshot technology of LVM or file systems like BTRFS, understanding of using SANs to provide block storage)

- More proficiency with data backup tools and best practices

- Basic database configuration and administration

 

Current Issues that pique my interest:

 

There are two EasyFix tickets regarding Ansible, with which I'd like to see if I can help.  There is ticket #9852 regarding DNS that is interesting, as well as #9683 about logging into RedHat bugzilla -- seems like an opportunity to become with an authentication system that isn't Active Directory.

 

I hope this introduction was not too long-winded, but I figure the more I list, the easier it will be to see where I might be able to contribute.  I'm looking forwarding to meeting and learning from everyone!



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Eddie Jennings, Jr.

https://www.eddiejennings.net/