Linux for Network Engineers

It is important for you as a network engineer to learn Linux! Why? There are many reasons including: 1) A lot of network operating systems are based on Linux, or have a Linux shell you can access, or use Linux type commands. I'll show you an example using Cisco, Arista and Cumulus Linux. 2) Network Automation tools such as Ansible don't run the command node on Windows. You are probably going to use Linux with tools such as Ansible, Netmkio, NAPALM and other network automation tools. 3) SDN controllers such as OpenDaylight, ONOS, RYU and APIC-EM run on Linux.You will find that many SDN tools require Linux. 4) DevOps tools such as git work best with Linux. 5) IoT devices typically run Linux