hey guys,
I hope you are all doing well. I am possibly moving to a new role which involves a SaaS company with a heavy investment in the cloud. so my role will b e 50/50 on prem and cloud. Which books/resources do you recommend for AWS and azure networking?
thanks!
Lol, I've picked up most of that knowledge off the street corner and in the locker rooms. I'm up for getting the straight dope, myself...
Honestly, online. Cloud moves so fast books are out of date 2 years afterwards.
For Azure, MS publish amazing learning articles and github hosted labs you can step through yourself.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/ (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/learn/)
https://github.com/MicrosoftLearning (https://github.com/MicrosoftLearning)
AWS has something similar but far less organised.
https://aws.amazon.com/training/self-paced-labs/ (https://aws.amazon.com/training/self-paced-labs/)
Work out if they use terraform, ARM templates or cloudformation and give into that heavily.
Most people will roll with one of Linuxacademy / Acloudguru / udemy and watch a video course, those are only good enough as an intro level IMO
Anecdotally acloudguru is the supposed to be the best, but I like the *drumroll* linux and on-prem content in linuxacademy (Red Hat, K8 etc.)
Be prepared to read the documentation, its as good as Cisco configuration guides, just even drier (as there's often no real 'protocol' to learn, you're basically learning push button X for app to do Y, now memorise it - thats the way it is).
I'd just smash out an associate level cert in both clouds then you'll be OK (e.g. AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate / Microsoft Azure Administrator)
As an aside, the Sybex official cert guides are really good for AWS, but the official MS cert guides are TERRIBLE (just screenshot city, typical MS lol)
If you're heavy into AWS, the advanced networking exam is amazing, if out of date already due to transit gateway and DHCP resolver being a thing now. Goodbye all the hours I spent memorizing hybrid DNS patterns.
I taught myself openstack by deploying it, making small changes, re-deploying, fixing the deployment failures; and eventually getting to a production-ready deployment. Openstack is just a cloud like almost any other (azure / GCP / AWS). The names are different but concepts are the same (like openstack project = AWS VPC)
What do you need to know RE cloud? I'm doing GCP training at the moment which is free from our google rep. Best way to learn in my opinion is try and do something, fail at it and then work out how to fix it (ie not to fail). Like in my case above, I tried to deploy openstack and spent a few weeks working out how to get it working ;)