Fair question Corey. I will, of course, defer to mailing list owners to decide.
In my defense, I understand this is not a free resource. However, it might be a very important resource for someone as no such training exists today to my knowledge. The training is targeted for people who might be in the job market or contemplating a switch and are having difficulty due to the switch to DevOps focus. Rajul On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Corey Quinn <co...@sequestered.net> wrote: > Sorry, I have to throw a flag on this. > > Is an invitation to a “bootcamp” for $6K a person *really* an appropriate > use of the sajobs mailing list? > > This tends to skew far more towards “advertisement” than “valid resource > for folks in our field” as I read things. I recognize that I may be in the > minority here, but I’m spam-sensitive. > > Regards, > Corey Quinn > > On Dec 12, 2013, at 1:41 PM, rajulv...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Please forward to any San Francisco Bay Area sysadmins that might benefit > from DevOps > Accelerator<https://www.bootcampdevops.com/index.php/bootcamp-devops/devops-accelerator>3-evenings > a week 12-week bootcamp in Santa Clara, CA. Right now there is > no remote / online version of this bootcamp though I am considering one. > > > I am a Cloud Operations automation consultant - people call me DevOps guy > though I am not sure if DevOps is appropriate as a title. But whatever - > its here so I am not fighting it. > > I have worked at Google (release/deployment automation) and then managed > Technical Operations at Zuora (a SaaS company) with very heavy security / > PCI compliance requirements. Since then I have automated cloud operations > for several startups as a consultant. > > I found it very hard to find people with skills that are now associated > with DevOps movement. A combination of SysAdmin, Release Engineering, > Programming/Scripting, Puppet, etc. etc. What is interesting is that most > SysAdmins and Release Engineers know bunch of this stuff but are finding it > hard to transition to DevOps jobs due to some critical gaps in their skill > set. > > So I created a Bootcamp to train people in these skills and accelerate > their transition to the more lucrative DevOps jobs. Specifically for > SysAdmins or Release Engineering folks I have what I call DevOps > Accelerator<https://www.bootcampdevops.com/index.php/bootcamp-devops/devops-accelerator>bootcamp > that focuses on processes and tools needed to accomplish two major > DevOps initiatives I see in most companies - Continuous Delivery pipeline > and Infrastructure as Code - I see them as two sides of the same coin. > > This bootcamp also includes a visit to Google campus to go meet engineers > there for Q&A. I think it is really important to see it in practice and > understand how culture plays into all of this. > > Teaching style is based on real world projects, some of them derived from > my consulting career. You can read more at www.bootcampdevops.com. > > Thanks and let me know if you have any questions, > > Rajul > -- > Rajul Vora > www.linkedin.com/in/rajulvora/ > _______________________________________________ > Sajobs mailing list > saj...@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sajobs > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > > -- Rajul Vora
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