Bash Scripting Essentials for DevOps Engineers

Learn Bash scripting from a DevOps Team Lead at an FDA-compliant medical device company and a Senior DevOps Engineer at Proofpoint, a leading cybersecurity firm protecting Fortune 100 companies.

This focused 2-hour course teaches you the core Bash skills we use daily managing production systems where security, compliance, and uptime are non-negotiable.

What You'll Learn:

Core Scripting Fundamentals:

• Variables, parameters, and command-line arguments

• Loops (for, while, until) for processing multiple files and systems

• Conditional logic (if/case) for smart decision-making in scripts

• Functions for writing modular, reusable code

Real File Processing:

• Parse log files, configuration files, and command outputs

• Extract and transform data from text files

• Handle different file formats and edge cases

Debugging & Best Practices:

• Debug scripts efficiently when things go wrong

• Error handling techniques for reliable automation

• Testing and validation approaches from regulated environments

Hands-On Practice: You'll write scripts alongside us, with quizzes to reinforce learning and real-world examples from medical technology and enterprise cybersecurity environments.

Who This Course Is For:

• Linux users ready to move beyond basic commands

• Aspiring DevOps/Security engineers building their automation foundation

• Developers who need to automate repetitive tasks

• Security professionals learning infrastructure automation

• Anyone working in regulated or high-security environments

Prerequisites: Basic Linux familiarity (ls, cd, cat, basic file navigation). No programming experience required.

What You Get:

• 2 hours of focused instruction from DevOps engineers at FDA-regulated and Fortune 100 cybersecurity environments

• Downloadable script templates you can adapt

• Real-world examples from both medical tech and enterprise security workflows

• Foundation skills for CI/CD, security automation, and cloud scripting

Important: This is a fundamentals course designed to give you production-ready basics. For advanced security automation, Kubernetes scripting, or CI/CD pipelines, stay tuned for our advanced courses - coming soon!

Your Instructors:

[Heinan Cabouly]: DevOps Team Lead managing multi-region AWS infrastructure with Kubernetes clusters and Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for an FDA/MDR-compliant medical device company. Daily work includes EKS cluster management, observability stack automation, and regulatory compliance workflows.

[Tomer Baum]: Senior DevOps Engineer at Proofpoint, where he manages infrastructure and automation for one of the world's leading email security and threat protection platforms serving Fortune 100 enterprises.

The Bash fundamentals in this course are what we both use every day—whether it's automating FDA-compliant deployments, investigating security incidents, parsing threat intelligence feeds, or managing production systems where downtime costs millions.

Ready to learn Bash from engineers working in two of the most demanding production environments?

Enroll now and write your first production-ready script in the next 30 minutes.