Foundation
Cloud & System Administration
The entry point into infrastructure work. Servers, networks and cloud, from nothing.
What you'll be able to do
- Install, secure and maintain Linux servers in production
- Diagnose a network problem instead of guessing at it
- Run the core services a small company depends on
- Operate the same workloads in a cloud account rather than a rack
Modules
- 01Linux administrationInstallation, users and groups, permissions, systemd, package management, filesystems and LVM
- 02Shell and scriptingBash scripting, cron, log rotation, text processing with grep, sed and awk
- 03Networking in practiceIP addressing, subnetting, routing, DNS, DHCP, firewalls, VPN, packet capture
- 04Core servicesWeb servers, reverse proxies, mail basics, file sharing, certificate management
- 05Windows Server essentialsActive Directory, group policy, joining Linux hosts to a domain, mixed environments
- 06Storage and backupRAID, NFS and SMB, snapshot strategy, restore rehearsals, retention planning
- 07Monitoring and troubleshootingReading logs, resource exhaustion, disk and memory pressure, a repeatable diagnostic method
- 08Moving to the cloudInstances, security groups, managed databases, IAM, lift-and-shift versus rebuilding
Capstone
Build and harden a complete small-company environment — servers, network, backups and monitoring — then migrate it to a cloud account.