Projects in Linux - Learn Linux Doing Real World Projects

Learn how to obtain the Ubuntu ISO, choose between long term support and latest releases, and create a bootable USB drive with Rufus for installation.

Rsync for local to local backups demonstrates transferring files between directories, using trailing slashes, archive mode, and optional compression to preserve ownership, permissions, and timestamps.

Explore how to create a Linux cluster for high availability using a shared service IP, active-active or active-passive modes, and shared storage.

Configure a shared storage resource for a Linux cluster by partitioning and formatting a disk, mounting it for the Apache web server, and exposing it as a Pacemaker resource.

Learn to install and start the Apache web server on CentOS (and Ubuntu), serve static HTML files from /var/www/html, and use index.html as the default page served on port 80.

Configure virtual hosts on CentOS by creating sites-available and sites-enabled directories, enabling hosts with symbolic links, and updating httpd.conf to include these sites, then restart Apache and verify with example.com.

Examine how to set up a Linux database server. Compare relational, NoSQL, and in-memory engines, including tables and joins, documents and collections, and data stored in memory.

Learn MySQL installation on Ubuntu and CentOS, including choosing MySQL server or MariaDB. Secure setup with mysql_secure_installation to set root password and disable remote access, remove test database.

Install and configure phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu with Apache, access localhost, and manage a bookstore database by creating an authors table with name, phone, address, and inserting records via GUI.

Learn how to update and remove records in MongoDB, use object id lookups and $set, and secure the database by enabling authentication and creating admin and read/write users.

Learn to use sqlite3 with Python to build an embedded, portable database: in-memory or file-based, with tables, inserts, selects, and persistent storage.

Explore how to create and use functions in bash, pass positional arguments, and distinguish function scope from scripts, including arguments visibility and the export requirement.

Learn to automate Linux user creation with expiry date handling, alias processing, and password expiry, while enforcing a mandatory primary group and optional secondary groups through reusable functions.

Learn how linux programmers use a code editor to build and share environments, with features like syntax highlighting, line numbers, bracket matching, autosave, and plugins for python and shell scripts.

Create and switch to a new branch to test changes without affecting the main code. Then merge successful branches back to master and use logs and checks to verify changes.