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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

  1. 01
    Linux administrationInstallation, users and groups, permissions, systemd, package management, filesystems and LVM
  2. 02
    Shell and scriptingBash scripting, cron, log rotation, text processing with grep, sed and awk
  3. 03
    Networking in practiceIP addressing, subnetting, routing, DNS, DHCP, firewalls, VPN, packet capture
  4. 04
    Core servicesWeb servers, reverse proxies, mail basics, file sharing, certificate management
  5. 05
    Windows Server essentialsActive Directory, group policy, joining Linux hosts to a domain, mixed environments
  6. 06
    Storage and backupRAID, NFS and SMB, snapshot strategy, restore rehearsals, retention planning
  7. 07
    Monitoring and troubleshootingReading logs, resource exhaustion, disk and memory pressure, a repeatable diagnostic method
  8. 08
    Moving 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.