Linux System Administrator Part Two (RH134 Equivalent)

Who Should Attend
• Technical professionals in Linux
• Linux professionals looking to learn about Linux enterprise or cloud systems administration

What You’ll Learn
• Deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux through scalable installation techniques.
• Navigate and secure files, file systems, and network configurations.
• Implement automation and scripting via the shell.
• Organize and administer storage solutions, including logical volumes and file systems.
• Enhance and regulate security measures and access controls.
• Oversee system boot procedures and service management.
• Operate and manage containerized services on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment.

Outline

Improve Command Line Productivity
• Lecture: Bash Shell Mastery
• Lecture + Lab: Advanced Comand Line Operations and Redirection
• Challenge: I/O Redirection Challenge
• Lecture + Lab: Text Processing with grep, awk, and sed
• Lecture + Lab: Vim: A Modal Text Editor
• Challenge: Vim Challenge
• Lecture + Lab: Bash Shell Conditional Logic, Loops, Variables and Arguments

Scheduling Tasks
• Lecture: Automating and Scheduling Tasks
• Lecture + Lab: One Time Scheduling with at
• Lecture + Lab: Recurring Tasks with cron and crontab

• Lecture + Lab: Scheduling Complex Sequences with systemd Timers

Analyze and Store Logs
• Lecture: Understanding System Logs
• Lecture + Lab: Using journalctl to Query the systemd Journal
• Lecture + Lab: Configuring Log Rotation with logrotate and Preserving Logs

Archiving and Transferring Files
• Lecture: File Compression and Archiving
• Lecture + Lab: Creating and Extracting Archives with tar, gzip, bzip2, and xz
• Lecture + Lab: Securely Copying Files Between Systems using scp, rsync, and sftp

System Performance Tuning
• Lecture: Performance Monitoring and Management
• Lecture + Lab: Identifying Resource-Intensive Processes with top and ps
• Lecture + Lab: Adjusting Process Priority using nice, and renice
• Lecture + Lab: Configuring System Tuning Profiles with tuned

SELinux Security Management
• Lecture: SELinux Basics
• Lecture + Lab: Understanding SELinux Modes
• Lecture + Lab: Managing SELinux Contexts for Files and Processes

Logical Volume Management
• Lecture: LVM Management
• Lecture + Lab: Managing Physical Volumes and Volume Groups
• Lecture + Lab: Creating, Extending, and Removing Logical Volumes
• Lecture + Lab: Resizing File Systems with resize2fs, and xfs_growfs

Network-Attached Storage
• Lecture: NFS Configuration
• Lecture + Lab: Setting up an NFS Server and Sharing Directories

Controlling the Boot Process
• Lecture: Boot Process Management
• Lecture + Lab: Booting into Different System Targets (multi-user, graphical, rescue)
• Lecture + Lab: Interrupting the Boot Process for Recovery

Network Security Management
• Lecture + Lab: Configuring Firewalld Rules using firewall-cmd
• Lecture + Lab: Securing Services with Custom Firewall Zones
• Lecture + Lab: SELinux Rules for Network Ports and Services

Running Containers
• Lecture + Lab: Installing and Configuring Podman for Container Management
• Lecture + Lab: Configuring Containers to Run as systemd Services
• Lecture + Lab: Attaching Persistent Storage to Containers

Additional Learning
• Lecture + Lab: Performance and Kernel Tuning
• Lecture + Lab: Startup Scripts and Systemd Services

Prerequisites
• Basic technical skills
• Complete RH124