The writing on the wall has become incredibly clear and Linux administration is in your future. Your company has probably realized just how much money they can save and much more ore agile they can be by working with Linux as a server platform.

Maybe the business is even considering Linux on the desktop. Either way, you know where you’re headed, but you’re not sure how to get there.

Fear not, as TechRepublic Premium has a list of 10 skills you’re going to need to learn, to successfully add Linux admin to your title. But don’t worry, this isn’t just a list of the commands you need to learn (although that’s a part of it). Instead, this list is made up of a variety of skills you’ll need to successfully manage Linux for your company.

Most everyone in IT knows about the debacle that was Red Hat capping CentOS at the knees. If you’ve been living in a server room for the past year, let me give the quick gist: Red Hat decided to shift CentOS to a rolling-release distribution, CentOS Stream, that now serves as a testing ground for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. What was once one of the most stable Linux server distributions now livest between Fedora and RHEL, so the company can highlight (to the public) what it’s planning on doing with the next release of their flagship OS. What that means is CentOS Stream will no longer exist as the rock-solid platform we all once knew and deployed, but an ever-changing playground for Red Hat’s premier OS. This means businesses cannot effectively rely on CentOS Stream to be stable. In some cases, crucial tools like cPanel have completely withdrawn their support for CentOS Steam.

The importance of that cannot be overstated. Without cPanel support, a large number of businesses have been forced to migrate to other Linux distributions.

But which ones? Because this is Linux and open source, it should come as no surprise that plenty of options have risen from the ashes that was CentOS 8. One such option is AlmaLinux.

Although you might think AlmaLinux is new to the world of Linux, it’s not. This “new” distribution was created by CloudLinux, a company that has a wealth of experience supporting Linux in the data center and within the cloud. This TechRepublic Premium PDF download will tell you all about it.

Linux is a powerful platform, one that Enterprise businesses of all kinds have grown to depend on. In fact, without Linux, most businesses would struggle to remain as agile and capable as they are. That’s significant, given how competitive the corporate landscape has become. If your business isn’t able to pivot in an instant, you’ll fall behind quickly.

That means your IT staff needs not only have the skills required to deploy and manage the Linux operating system, they also need to understand some of the more important best practices that can help keep those systems running smoothly and securely.

This PDF download from TechRepublic Premium takes a look at some of the best practices you should be applying to all of your Linux deployments, broken down into easily managed categories.

It’s time to party. Linux is 30 years old. What started as a student project by a young Linus Torvalds studying computer science at the University of Helsinki, has become an open source operating system that enterprise businesses around the globe depend on.

It’s massive. It’s crucial. And without Linux, most businesses wouldn’t be nearly as agile, flexible, and reliable.

To wish Linux a 30th birthday, Jack Wallen describes how the operating system changed his life and the business landscape in this free TechRepublic PDF download.