Course description
Ubuntu Server Administration - Corporate Course Overview...
Ubuntu Server Administration Course OverviewThis instructor led Ubuntu Server Administration training course is designed to teach the key configuration, administration, networking, security, and performance tasks required on an Ubuntu Server.
Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.
Who will the Course Benefit?...
Who will the Course Benefit?The Ubuntu Server Administration training course is suitable for Ubuntu System Administrators, Programmers and other technical IT staff who need to acquire administration knowledge of the key configuration, administrative, networking, security and performance tasks required on an Ubuntu Linux operating system within the enterprise. An ideal course for anyone who will be working in an environment using Ubuntu Linux Server.
Course Objectives...
Course ObjectivesOn completion of this course the delegate will have the required technical knowledge to administer Ubuntu Linux Server within the enterprise. They will have gained practical experience of the key configuration, administration, networking, security, and performance aspects of Ubuntu Linux Server.
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Requirements
RequirementsThis Ubuntu Server Administration course assumes good knowledge of the Linux operating system in an Enterprise environment to the level covered in the Linux Introduction course. Alternatively, relevant experience of Linux or Unix servers is required, preferably within an enterprise environment.
Experience to the level as demonstrated in this course is recommended:
- Linux Introduction
Training Course Content
Ubuntu Server Administration Training Course
Course Contents - DAY 1
Course Introduction- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
- User Private Group scheme
- Files used in creating a user
- Managing groups
- Password administration
- The Bash Shell environment
- Extended permissions
- Configuring Privilege Delegation via sudo
- Monitoring login activity
- Exercise
- File system types
- The Linux I/O stack
- MBR vs GPT partition tables
- Partitioning a disk
- Comparison of Linux file systems
- Creating XFS and Btrfs file systems
- Displaying disk usage
- Mounting and unmounting file systems
- Configuring labels and UUIDs
- Exercise
- An overview of RAID levels
- Creating, managing and modifying RAID arrays
- Creating Nested RAID
- Failing and replacing drives
- Exercise
Course Contents - DAY 2
Session 4: LOGICAL VOLUME MANAGEMENT- Logical Volume Management overview
- Viewing LVM information
- Configuring LVM
- Resizing Logical Volumes
- The role of the Device Mapper
- Exercise
- ZFS overview
- Configuring, managing and modifying ZFS Pools
- Tuning ZFS
- Viewing ZFS statistics
- ZFS Snapshots and Clones
- Exercise
- The Debian Package Manager
- Managing packages with apt
- Managing software Snaps
- Exercise
- Vim overview
- Basic functions
- The language of Vim
- Further Vim functions
- The Vim Environment
- Vim quick reference
- Exercise
Course Contents - DAY 3
Session 8: SYSTEM INITIALISATION- Managing systemd
- The Startup Script Framework
- Starting and stopping services dynamically
- Creating Systemd services, timers and mount units
- Running transient units
- Changing run levels and shutdown
- Exercise
- Process monitoring tools
- Scheduling processes with at and cron
- The cron configuration files
- crontab command options
- Scheduling processes with anacron
- Exercise
- Networking overview
- Network services and port numbers
- Configuring IPv4 and IPv6 addressing
- Resolving hostnames and DNS
- Secure communications via SSH
- Capturing and analysing network packets
- Configuring Network Time
- Exercise
- Localisation overview
- Locale variables
- Converting character sets and encoding
- Configuring the locale and keymap
- Configuring the system and user time zone
- Exercise
Course Contents - DAY 4
Session 12: CONFIGURING LINUX LOGGING- Configuring rsyslog
- Configuring remote logging
- Testing using logger
- Managing logs with logrotate
- Basic and advanced journal queries
- Configuring the journal
- Exercise
- Archiving and restoring with tar
- Cloning devices with dd
- Compressing files
- Transferring files with rsync
- A comparison of backup programs
- Exercise
- Configuring KVM virtualisation
- Installing and managing virtual systems
- Understanding Linux containers
- Pulling and running Docker containers
- Exercise
- The Uncomplicated Firewall
- Creating and managing UFW applications
- Configuring AppArmor
- Creating and modifying AppArmor profiles
- Exercise
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Continuing Studies
Further Learning
- Linux Advanced System Administration (LPI)
- Linux Automation with Ansible
- Linux System Security
- Linux Networking
- Linux Shell Programming
- Apache Web Server
- Oracle SQL
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