The Linux Foundation, the body promoting the open source software ecosystem, has introduced a new online training course for engineers who want to move into networking, with the skills necessary to manage a software-defined network (SDN) deployment.
The Linux Foundation believes there is a growing need for SDN skills and it says that open source is “leading the charge in the growth of SDN and virtualization”.
LFS265 Software-Defined Networking (SDN) aims to provide the knowledge required to maintain an SDN deployment in a virtual networking environment. Application developers may also be interested in this course, as most are familiar with virtualization due to use of the cloud, but they lack an understanding of how to deploy applications in an SDN framework.
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