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Course Objectives

Course Outline

1. Automated installation with Kickstart

• 1. Kickstart
• 2. Anaconda: An Overview
• 3. Anaconda: Booting the System
• 4. Anaconda: Common Boot Options
• 5. Anaconda: Loading Anaconda and Packages
• 6. Anaconda: Storage Options
• 7. Anaconda: Troubleshooting

Lab Tasks

• 8. Linux Installation
• 9. Automating Installation with Kickstart

2. Use regular expressions with grep

• 1. Searching Inside Files
• 2. The Streaming Editor
• 3. Regular Expression Overview
• 4. Regular Expression Implementations
• 5. Regular Expressions
• 6. RE Character Classes
• 7. Regex Quantifiers
• 8. RE Parenthesis

Lab Tasks

• 9. Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions
• 10. Extended Regular Expressions
• 11. Using Regular Expressions With sed

3. Create and edit text files with Vim

• 1. Text Editing
• 2. vi and Vim
• 3. Learning Vim
• 4. Basic vi
• 5. Intermediate vi

Lab Tasks

• 6. Text Editing with Vim

4. Schedule future Linux tasks

• 1. Automating Tasks
• 2. at/batch
• 3. cron
• 4. The crontab Command
• 5. crontab Format
• 6. /etc/cron.*/ Directories
• 7. Anacron
• 8. Systemd Timers

Lab Tasks

• 9. Creating and Managing User Cron Jobs
• 10. Adding System cron Jobs

5. Manage priority of Linux processes

• 1. Viewing Processes
• 2. Managing Processes
• 3. Tuning Process Scheduling

Lab Tasks

• 4. Process Management Basics

6. Control access to files with access control lists (ACL)

• 1. File and Directory Permissions
• 2. File Access Control Lists
• 3. Manipulating FACLs
• 4. Viewing FACLs
• 5. Backing Up FACLs

Lab Tasks

• 6. Using Filesystem ACLs

7. Manage SELinux security

• 1. SELinux Security Framework
• 2. SELinux Modes
• 3. SELinux Commands
• 4. Choosing an SELinux Policy
• 5. SELinux Booleans
• 6. Permissive Domains
• 7. SELinux Policy Tools
• 8. SELinux Troubleshooting
• 9. SELinux Troubleshooting Continued

Lab Tasks

• 10. Exploring SELinux Modes
• 11. SELinux File Contexts

8. Connect to network-defined users and groups

• 1. RHEL DS Client Configuration
• 2. System Security Services Daemon (SSSD)

Lab Tasks

• 3. Using LDAP for Centralized User Accounts

9. Add disks, partitions, and file systems to a Linux system

• 1. Partitioning Disks with fdisk & gdisk
• 2. Resizing a GPT Partition with gdisk
• 3. Partitioning Disks with parted
• 4. Non-Interactive Disk Partitioning with sfdisk
• 5. Filesystem Creation
• 6. Filesystem Maintenance
• 7. Managing an XFS Filesystem
• 8. Swap

Lab Tasks

• 9. Creating and Managing Filesystems
• 10. Hot Adding Swap

10. Manage logical volume management (LVM) storage

• 1. Logical Volume Management
• 2. Implementing LVM
• 3. Creating Logical Volumes
• 4. Activating LVM VGs
• 5. Exporting and Importing a VG
• 6. Examining LVM Components
• 7. Changing LVM Components
• 8. Advanced LVM Overview
• 9. Advanced LVM: Components & Object Tags
• 10. Advanced LVM: Automated Storage Tiering
• 11. Advanced LVM: Thin Provisioning
• 12. Advanced LVM: Striping & Mirroring
• 13. Advanced LVM: RAID Volumes

Lab Tasks

• 14. Creating and Managing LVM Volumes

11. Access networked attached storage with network file system (NFS)

• 1. File Sharing via NFS
• 2. NFSv4+
• 3. NFS Clients
• 4. NFS
• 5. NFS Server Configuration

Lab Tasks

• 6. NFS Server Configuration

12. Access networked attached storage with SMB

• 1. Accessing Windows/Samba Shares from Linux
• 2. AutoFS
• 3. AutoFS Configuration

Lab Tasks

• 4. Using autofs

13. Control and troubleshoot the Red Hat Enterprise Linux boot process

• 1. System Boot Method Overview
• 2. systemd System and Service Manager
• 3. Modifying systemd services
• 4. Systemd Service Sandboxing Features
• 5. systemd Targets
• 6. Using systemd
• 7. Legacy Support for SysV init
• 8. Booting Linux on PCs
• 9. GRUB 2
• 10. GRUB 2 Configuration
• 11. The Boot Loader Specification
• 12. GRUB 2 Security
• 13. Boot Parameters
• 14. Initial RAM Filesystem
• 15. init
• 16. Linux Runlevels Aliases
• 17. Systemd local-fs.target and sysinit.target
• 18. Systemd basic.target and multi-user.target
• 19. Legacy local bootup script support
• 20. System Configuration Files
• 21. RHEL8 Configuration Utilities
• 22. Shutdown and Reboot

Lab Tasks

• 23. Boot Process
• 24. Booting directly to a bash shell
• 25. GRUB Command Line
• 26. Basic GRUB Security
• 27. Managing Services With Systemd's systemctl
• 28. Creating a systemd unit file
• 29. Troubleshooting Practice: Boot Process

14. Linux network communication with firewall

• 1. Netfilter: Stateful Packet Filter Firewall
• 2. Netfilter Concepts
• 3. Using the iptables Command
• 4. Netfilter Rule Syntax
• 5. Targets
• 6. Common match_specs
• 7. Extended Packet Matching Modules
• 8. Connection Tracking
• 9. FirewallD

Lab Tasks

• 10. Securing Services with Netfilter
• 11. FirewallD

15. Container Technology Overview

• 1. Container Fundamentals
• 2. Daemonless Containers
• 3. Podman
• 4. Podman Configuration
• 5. Podman Images
• 6. Podman Volumes
• 7. Podman Networking
• 8. Rootless Podman
• 9. Podman and Pods
• 10. Building Images with Buildah
• 11. Managing Images with Skopeo

Lab Tasks

• 12. Podman
• 13. Podman Networking
• 14. Podman and Pods
• 15. Podman Container at Boot

16. Comprehensive review

• 1. System Administration II

Lab Tasks

• 2. Understand And Use Essential Tools
• 3. Operate Running Systems
• 4. Configure Local Storage and Filesystems
• 5. Users, Groups, and File Permissions
• 6. Maintenance and Recovery

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