Linux administration
Course Objective
To prepare participants for confident administration of Linux-based systems, providing skills in configuration, monitoring, security, and workflow automation.
The course is designed for:
- Junior system administrators
- IT professionals transitioning from Windows infrastructure
- Junior DevOps engineers
- Developers requiring a deeper understanding of Linux systems
Learning Format
- Course duration: 20 hours (10 classes × 2 hours)
- Online instructor-led sessions
- Practical assignments after each module
- Final project: setting up a fully functional Linux server
Benefits for the Company
- Improved IT staff qualifications
- Standardized administration approaches
- More secure and stable server environments
- Certificates for each participant (from SkillsUp or the company’s internal brand)
Additional Services (Upon Request)
- Custom consultations for your infrastructure
- Linux server audits and recommendations
- Advanced DevOps/CI/CD course after completion
Program of the course "Linux administration"
1
- History of Linux, main distributions
- System installation (Ubuntu, CentOS)
- File system and basic commands (ls, cd, pwd, cp, mv, rm)
- Working with text files (cat, nano, vim, grep, sed)
2
- Creating users and groups (useradd, usermod, groupadd)
- Access rights (chmod, chown, umask, ACL)
- Configuring sudo (visudo)
3
- Package management (apt, yum, dnf, rpm)
- Working with repositories and updates
- Creating backups (rsync, tar)
4
- Process monitoring (ps, top, htop, kill)
- Service management (systemctl start/stop, journalctl)
- Logging and analysis of /var/log/
5
- Checking network connections (ip addr, ifconfig, ping, netstat)
- Network configuration (nmcli, netplan)
- SSH basics and secure connection
6
- Configuring firewalls (ufw, iptables, firewalld)
- Securing SSH (keys, Fail2Ban)
- Basics of SELinux/AppArmor
7
- Mounting disks and partitions (mount, fstab)
- File system management (ext4, XFS)
- Basics of LVM and RAID
8
- Basics of Bash scripting (if, for, while)
- Task scheduling (cron, at)
- Introduction to Ansible (basic commands)
9
- Deploying a server from scratch
- Installing and configuring a web server (Nginx / Apache)
- Basic server security
10
- Completing the final task
- Error analysis, development recommendations
- Questions and answers, experience discussion
Course
20 hours
10 classes
Lessons to choose
Free
Education provides
Maksym Fedorov
Software architecture & development consultant, Tech Lead, Instructor