Linux Administration Bootcamp – Beginner to Advanced

      LINUX ADMINISTRATION BOOTCAMP – BEGINNER TO ADVANCED

Linux is the one of the best operating system in the world. Linux is a popular, open source operating system that is easy to use and very secure. Most Fortune 500 companies are running their back-end servers on Linux/Unix based OS.

If you want to start your career in Linux and have little or no Linux knowledge, I can help you with this course. This course covers Linux installation, configuration, administration, troubleshooting, shell scripting, command line, operating system tools, and a lot more!.

In this course, I am going to assure you, the things I’m going to teach, will be very interesting and easily understandable. At the end of this course, you will Become a competent Linux systems engineer or administrator.

This course is also a good source to prepare you for Linux certifications.

These Lectures are more like live classroom training sessions with quizzes and homework.

I have also created quizzes for you to go through and test your knowledge.

Learning Linux can be daunting – I have designed this course keeping in mind the most important things I would need to know if I was starting my Career in Linux today.

Following is the list of topics I have covered in this course:

Section 1. Course Overview

• Course overview

Section 2. Installation of required software and accessing a Linux System

• Install Virtual Box

• Download & install Cent OS Linux

• Install Red Hat 8 with custom Partitioning on Virtual Box

• Download, install and connect through putty

• Different ways of accessing your Linux Server

Section 3. Linux Fundamentals

• The Linux directory structure

• Basic Linux commands cd, ls, cat, pwd, and more

• Listing files and understanding LS output

• Changing password of a user

• Finding files in your system

• Introduction to vi editor

• Copying directories and files

• Removing directories and files

• Moving and renaming directories and files

• Absolute vs Relative path of a directory

• Creating files and directories by command line 

• Understanding the basic file and directory permissions

• Changing file permissions

• Modify file ownership for user and group

• Quiz

Section 4. Intermediate level Linux Skills

• Use of more and less command 

• Use of  head and tail commands

• Explanation of Tab Key Completion

• Use of history command

• Explanation of Wild Cards Characters

• Soft and Hard Links between files 

• Input, Output and Error Redirection

• Explanation of grep Command

• Uses of Pipe

• Shell Aliases command 

• Use of echo command

• Explanation of environment variables

• Connecting from one server to another

• Transferring and Copying files over the Network

• Counting of words, lines and characters

• Viewing and monitoring processes by command

• Schedule and automate tasks with Cron

• User and group administration

• Switching Users by command line

• The sudo utility

• Compressing and archiving files (using tar, gzip) 

• Displaying and setting the hostname

• Find your IP address in Linux

• (using different ways of text file manipulation by using )tr, sort, diff and uniq command

• cut and sort command

• 32-bit vs 64-bit operating systems

• Finding system information using (uname, dmidecode)

• Root password recovery

• Explanation of  sosreport for Redhat troubleshooting

• Monitor Users (who, last w, id)

• Message of the day (motd) and wall

• Quiz

Section 5. Managing Users and Groups

• User and group administration by command

• Create a User account with no login access

• Use of  passwd command

• Password Aging on User accounts

• Create, modify and delete group accounts in Linux

• Activating and deactivating shadow password mechanism

• User authentication files

• Explanation of  passwd file

• Explanation of  shadow file

• Explanation of group file

• Explanation  of gshadow file

• Switching Users

• The sudo utility

Section 6. Disk and Volume Management using (LVM, Parted)

• Introduction to partitioning and file system 

• Introduction to LVM (The Logical Volume Manager)

• Add a new disk volume through Oracle Virtual Box

• Managing storage with partedmot

• Creating Physical Volumes (PVs), Volume Groups (VGs) and Logical

• Extending Volume Group (VG) and Logical Volumes (LV)

• Mirroring Logical Volumes

• Moving Volumes (Data) from one storage to another

• Removing Logical Volumes (LVs), Volume Groups (VGs) and Physical

Section 7. Networking using Linux

• Network Components

• Network Classes

• TCP and UDP Protocols

• The OSI model

• Ping Command

• Network Interfaces, configuration files and commands

• Find your IP address

• Add a network adapter through Oracle VM Virtual Box

• NIC Bonding