“Good” as in something that looks just as good as an RH cert on my CV. I was considering LFCS, but I haven’t come across any job listings mention LFCS (at least, not where I live).
LFCS should be on par with RHCSA. CKA is also a good certificate which should get you a good return.
From my point the RHCSA is still a valid exam despite RedHats recent moves. HR Drones and Managers won’t care what RedHat is doing as long as they are supporting their products.
Employers aren’t going to change from Red Hat certs any time soon. Businesses are unlikely to move away from Red Hat over the recent changes.
Would a sysadmin really be looking to move away from a Red Hat certification track just because RH behaved like a for-profit corporation? I think it’s naive to assume this will have much of an impact on the reputation and desirability of an RH cert in the business world.
But, I suppose if you just want to avoid giving RH your testing money, then the Linux Foundation certs would be fine.
But what are the ramifications of doing away with the “free” version of RHEL in the form of centos/alma/rocky?
Personally, I never ran anything with CentOS, and haven’t touched RedHat since version 6, but I am very very comfortable spinning something up in Ubuntu or Debian at work because that’s what I’ve run on home and personal projects for the past 15 years. Although at work we are a windows shop, and few things are running Linux.
When the community doesn’t have as much experience and hands-on time with RHEL spin-offs, are the sysadmins that would make the call on what OS to use going to choose one they have little to no experience on? Or is red hat so ingrained into corporate type networks that nobody will blink at the choice and just do it?
My company is moving to Rocky Linux.
What happened with redhat?
The whole sudden shutting down of source code repos thereby putting the future of Rocky/Alma at risk, leading to a follow-on effect of sysadmins migrating away from Rocky/Alma and swearing off RH/RH-derived stuff in general.
This is the straw that broke the camel’s back. Red Hat has gotten greedier and greedier since IBM bought it. 99.99% of my work is new RHEL installs, and we are looking at Ubuntu & SLES lately.
In my last organisation, Oracle Linux had come up. Have you looked that up?
You’re considering changing distros due to legal restrictions, and one of the options you’re considering is Oracle?
Some, yes. I think it still being Red Hat adjacent has us talking about the other two more. Should be interesting to see how it plays out. I doubt much will change and we’ll have to keep having difficult conversations with customers about RH license costs.
Well, that’s how I left my org too 😂
I must be way behind. What happen with RH? I just migrated a bunch of servers to Alma , albeit not in prod but still.
Redhat made it against their terms to rebadge rhel as another distro and locked their source behind a paywall basically, theres more to it but thats the jist
Grandfathering Alma and Rocky, though, correct? I’d find it hard to believe they’d take CentOS, then try to eliminate Alma and Rocky. If there is anything keeping RH alive its that community to enterprise pipeline…
No grandfathering. Alma and rocky are working on a way to continue. The reason was not specifically given but they believe that the community doesn’t provide an equal share of value.
My guess is the NASA/qci contract to provide rocky Linux support.
Does anyone know if this affects Fedora based spin offs? For example Nobara.
Shouldnt for now
It this type of thinking that will drive up the value of the RH certifications. The community oriented people will go do something else and there will be less people certified on a stack that is used by large enterprises.
Look at Cisco and the CCNA. Cisco isn’t a nice and friendly FOSS company they are greedy AF, people still get the CCNA because its valuable to large enterprises that don’t care about nice and friendly FOSS companies.
Everyone hates Red Hat?
I still love red hat, my favorite distro. I agree with their stance on Alma/rocky but I am less in agreement about their methods.
