Linux System Administration for Beginners!
Welcome to “Linux System Administration for Beginners!”
In this course we will begin by covering the very basics of using the Linux operating system, and move on to the advanced system and networking skills necessary to become a Linux administrator!
We will cover the following topics in this course:
Linux installation
Command line usage
Development tools including choosing an IDE
GitHub setup
Complete Meteor.js web project
LAMP stack setup and app deployment
User management
Network administration
Enroll now to watch 7.5+ hours of HD video tutorials.
We hope to see you in the course!
What do you learn in this course
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1. Introduction to Linux
- Introduction to Ubuntu Linux and getting started as a power user
- What are Linux distributions
2. Ubuntu Linux Installation
- Installing VirtualBox and setting up your virtual machine
- Installing Ubuntu Linux on your virtual machine
- Installing Ubuntu Linux on your virtual machine (pt.2)
- Disabling the ISO & first boot up
- Installing VirtualBox_Guest Additions for a better user experience
- Customizing our Ubuntu desktop
- Installing the Unity Tweak Tool for Ubuntu
- Installing Ubuntu along side Windows on your actual hard drive (pt.1)
- Installing Ubuntu along side Windows on your actual hard drive (pt.2)
3. Linux Command Line Interface (CLI) Essentials
- Getting started with the Linux command line (pt.1)
- Getting started with the Linux command line (pt.2)
- Administrative privileges in the Linux terminal
- Using the package manager to install new applications
- Searching through the repository to find new applications to download
- What if we want to install a package that is not in the repository? No problem
- Keeping programs updated in Ubuntu Linux
- File permissions and ownership explained (pt.1)
- File permissions and ownership explained (pt.2)
- How to create a new file in the terminal and recap
- Creating new directories and moving files
- Copying, renaming, and removing files
4. Advanced CLI Usage
- Getting started with the FIND command and it's practical uses (pt.1)
- Getting started with the FIND command and it's practical uses (pt.2)
- Getting started with the FIND command and it's practical uses (pt.3)
- Introduction to the GREP command
- Using GREP in conjunction with the FIND command
- How to redirect the output of a command
- Using the TOP command to view applications on your Linux machine in real-time
- How to view the entire list of processes and closing applications
- What is a service
- Configuring services using the command line
- Using CRONTABS to schedule tasks
- What are the practical applications of CRONTABS
5. Linux Development Tools
- Choosing an integrated development environment (IDE)
- Eclipse installation and set-up
- PyCharm Installation and set-up
- PyCharm installation problem resolved
- Introduction to GitHub, installation, and how to set-up a repository
- How to pull:push information from our repository
- How to remove & ignore directories in our repository
- How to resolve merge conflicts from the command line
- How to set up and manage branches
- Correction from the previous lecture
6. Meteor.js Project
- Getting started with Meteor. Installation and how to add packages
- Setting up your first project
- Setting up our router and React components
- Watch as our project begins to take shape
- Working on the actual programming
- Rendering our posts
- Putting the finishing touches on our project
7. Web Server Setup, Host Configuration, and App Deployment
- Apache 2, PHP 5, and MySQL installation
- Getting started with our server configuration
- What is the hosts file on a Linux system
- Deploying our Meteor app to an Apache 2 server
- Setting up our MongoDB NoSQL database
- Creating our virtual host
- Using a shell script to set our environment variables
- Installing & configuring phpMyAdmin
- Let's take a tour around the phpMyAdmin panel
- Creating a basic virtual host
- Setting up a WordPress installation on top of our Apache 2 environment
- Before we begin using WordPress, we need to set-up our database
- Python installation & command line interface
- What are the practical applications of Python
8. Linux User Management
- Adding:removing users through the system settings graphical user interface (GUI)
- Adding new users through terminal
- How to delete users through terminal
- How to change an existing users password
- Adding users to a group and why this is valuable
9. Linux Network Administation
- Introduction to networking
- How does the internet work
- What is a local network
- Practical networking commands (pt.1)
- Practical networking commands (pt.2)
- Using the netstat command to track detailed network statistics
- An in-depth look at the Linux hosts file (pt.1)
- An in-depth look at the Linux hosts file (pt.2)
- Using traceroute to track the servers a request passes through
- Using Network Mapper to track the activity on your network (pt.1)
- Using Network Mapper to track the activity on your network (pt.2)
- Using ssh to access the command line of a remote host
- Let's use sftp to transfer files to and from machines
- Setting up an ssh host on our local machine
- Using the man command to learn info about the programs on your Linux machine
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7.5 hours
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