Summary
Hopefully at this point you have some solid understanding of what we mean by the concepts of System Administrator and Linux Administrator and how that role will potentially fit into an organization. We will treat the rest of this book as addressing both administration and engineering within the systems realm and with an eye towards the unique needs of Linux as our system family of choice.
We have looked at understanding what systems are, and how they fit into the IT departmental offerings. We have looked at the engineering and administration aspects of roles. We have broken down how a role can be dedicated or just one of many hats worn by a specialist. We have even broken into understanding more about IT as a general field and how we could go about acquiring an education to let us make the move into an IT career.
At this point, I think that we are ready to start to tackle the specific best practices of Linux Administration!
In our next chapter we are going to move on from examining what it means to be a System Administrator and focus in the same way on what it means for an operating system to be a Linux Operating System and look at how Linux fits into the technology ecosystem, who the key players are, and how we select Linux for our workloads.