DevOps in the Real World

Learn Linux Administration, Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Grafana, Vagrant, Icinga2 and more to Level-Up Your Career!

Created by: Jason Cannon
Professional system administrator, consultant, and author.

What Will I Learn?

• The fundamentals of Linux administration in a DevOps environment.
• How to implement and use the Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana) for log management, security analytics, and data visualization.
• Develop interactive dashboards and performance monitoring visualizations with Grafana, enabling effective capacity planning.
• How to deploy system and service availability monitoring and tracking using Icinga2, a popular DevOps Zabbix and Nagios alternative, complete with alerting.
• The automation of software installations and other operations using shell scripts.
• Develop your DevOps skills by implementing practical, real-world projects you can deploy today!

Requirements

• An interest in learning Linux Administration skills, DevOps skills, or both.
• Internet connectivity, including the ability to download files of about 700 MB in size from the Internet.
• A basic understanding of the Linux command line, such as knowing how to use the "cd", "pwd", and "ls" commands, is helpful, but not required.
• An enjoyment of learning by DOING hands-on, practical projects, as apposed to just listening to theoretical lectures.

Target audience

• Anyone interested in learning practical DevOps skills.