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Linux Fundamentals for IT Professionals

Linux Commands for day to day usage and basics of Shell Scripting with Case Studies.
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54,644 students
Created by Durga Viswanatha Raju Gadiraju, Itversity Support
English
Provision EC2 instance using free tier
Understanding SSH and Passwordless login in detail
Managing files and directories in Linux
Linux Commands for Searching and Copying files
System Commands and Standard Directories
Regular Expressions and Editors
Basics of Scripting and Developing One Liners
Case Study: Developing Monitoring Script leveraging passwordless login for system admins
Case Study: Developing script to automate data ingestion using Sqoop for Data Engineers
Virtualization and Setup Virtual Machines
Understanding AWS Concepts in Detail

Requirements

  • Basic Computer Skills
  • Access to Linux Virtual Machine or Setup Linux locally
  • Demos are given using RedHat and hence some of the commands might not work as is

Description

We are glad to announce a course on Linux Fundamentals which every Software Professional should be aware of. Before getting into details, we are not experts in Linux and we are only trying to share our experience of using handful of Linux commands and ability to write simple shell scripts for most common use cases.

If you fall in any of the below categories, then this course is for you

  • Computer Science or Information Technology Student

  • Testing Professional

  • Production Support or Operations

  • Software Engineer/Application Developer

  • Data Engineer or Big Data Engineer

  • Database Administrator

  • Any other role except for Systems Administrator

  • If you are Systems Administrator with extensive experience in managing Linux based systems, then this course might not be for you.

Benefits

It might not make much of difference to your career immediately, but the course will make you

  • comfortable while working on day to day tasks

  • automate the daily mundane tasks

  • hack to get the information from files for debugging the issues

At the end of the course your productivity or learning ability will improve for sure.

Curriculum

We will understand basic concepts, most common commands, basic shell scripting, automating simple use cases, virtualization and more.

Here are the details

  • Overview of Hardware, Operating Systems and launching AWS EC2 instances

  • Connecting to servers – detailed session on SSH, users and groups, profile, telnet, ping and firewalls/security groups

  • Manipulating Files and Managing Directories including basic file permissions and ACLs

  • Important commands – getting help, list files, search/find for files, copying files between the servers

  • Manipulating data – Piping output to commands, searching/filtering, transforming, sorting, getting unique values

  • System commands – Operating System, details about CPU, storage as well as memory, get process details and understand standard directories

  • Regular Expressions, overview of vi or vim editor

  • Basics of shell scripting – Scripting tools and developing one liners

  • Basics of shell scripting – Develop shell script to issue commands on multiple nodes and save output to file

  • Basics of shell scripting – Develop shell script to validate all the tables passed in a file

  • Setting up Virtual environment (using Virtualbox and Vagrant)

  • Understanding AWS in detail

Who this course is for:

  • Any data engineer who want to learn Linux commands and scripting for day to day usage
  • Any application developer who have to deal with linux to run their applications
  • Any production support professional who have to provide L1 or L2 support for applications running on Linux
  • Any Computer Science or Information Technology student who want to understand the usage of Linux in real world projects
  • Any Cloud or Systems Engineer who have to support or provide environment based on Linux

Course content

9 sections • 68 lectures • 8h 8m total length

  • Overview of Hardware
    02:18
  • Overview of Operating System
    03:02
  • Personal Computer vs. Enterprise Server
    09:45
  • Overview of Data Centers
    01:04
  • Physical Machine vs. Virtual Machine
    02:11
  • Signing up for AWS
    02:46
  • Provision EC2 instance
    09:41
  • Connecting to EC2 Instances
    05:10
  • Basic Linux Commands
    04:33

Instructors

Durga Viswanatha Raju Gadiraju
Technology Adviser and Evangelist
Durga Viswanatha Raju Gadiraju
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13+ years of experience in executing complex projects using vast array of technologies including Big Data and Cloud.

ITVersity, Inc. - a US based organization to provide quality training for IT professionals and we have the track record of training hundreds of thousands of professionals globally.

Building IT career for people with required tools such as high quality material, labs, live support etc to upskill and cross skill is paramount for our organization.

At this time our training offerings are focused on following areas:

* Application Development using Python and SQL

* Big Data and Business Intelligence

* Cloud

* Datawarehousing, Databases

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