How to grow to a system administrator?

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cooler_white2022-02-07 09:28:44

System administration

cooler_white, 2022-02-07 09:28:44

I am currently working in tech. support and I want to grow up to a big uncle-admin, who knows everything and can do everything.

I read Olifer's book on networks, the Linux bible and a couple of small books, articles and various video materials.
The problem is that this is more theoretical knowledge and basics, but I want to understand and learn in practice. At home there is a stand where you can have fun and experiment.

Tell me some problems or what you can do and the literature that you recommend for reading.

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unseriously, 2022-02-07
@cooler_white

Well, in general, here:
1. https://proglib.io/p/become-sysadmin
Then we dive into Linux (choose what you like best):
2. https://www.youtube.com/c/KirillSemaev/videos
3. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLisqB92_b4T...
4. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQJ7ptkRY-x...
5. https://www.youtube. com/playlist?list=PLg5SS_4L6LY...

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paran0id, 2022-02-07
@paran0id

Look at the headhunter for job requirements, look for interview questions for system administrators. Assimilate, master, a significant part of the initial sysadmin skills can be worked out at a home stand. There are about three ways there, Linux, Windows and networks - choose what you like best and focus on it.
At first, you still have to work as an enikey worker, the main thing is not to get stuck on it.

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evgeniy_lm, 2022-02-07
@evgeniy_lm

Books are good and right, but not the most important thing. Where you work, there is probably a "big uncle-admin", so stay close to him, become his assistant, run to him for beer and cigarettes, make coffee, but the main thing is to look and listen, listen and look, a real system administrator knows a lot of this what is not written in books

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Igor, 2022-02-07
@Lopar

Be ready to solve problems not as it is written in books, but with the help of crutches, patches and "for yesterday".
Learn to google fast: all awesome solutions have been invented before us. Your goal is to achieve results with minimal effort. Document every sneeze, as if for a moron. Say thank you to yourself, like those who come after you.
If you create a new network, if possible, do not use 192.168.X.0/24, you will expand - it will hiccup.

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Valentine, 2022-02-17
@ProFfeSsoRr

i want to understand and learn

Well, here in the question lies the answer - you have to go practice. That is, get a job and be ready to work 24/7 (because when something breaks, you will sit and figure it out until you fix it, and this can easily be at night and on weekends).