Linux Training in Gaia

Linux is a powerful open-source operating system used widely in servers, embedded systems, and enterprise environments.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level system administrators who wish to acquire practical knowledge of managing Linux servers, configuring system components, securing access, and supporting institutional IT needs.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure a Linux server from scratch.
• Manage users, groups, and access permissions effectively.
• Create and manage local file systems and partitions.
• Configure basic networking and essential services.
• Perform package management depending on the Linux distribution.
• Implement basic security practices and automation scripts.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training in Gaia (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner to intermediate-level system administrators who wish to gain the knowledge, practical skills, and confidence to proficiently manage and utilize Rocky Linux in various real-world scenarios and business applications.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Navigate, install, configure, and manage a Rocky Linux system effectively.
• Administer system tasks and implement security measures.
• Understand virtualization and containerization.
• Implement backup and recovery plans and optimize system performance.

This instructor-led, live training in Gaia (online or onsite) is aimed at system administrators and IT professionals who wish to become proficient Linux system administrators.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Effectively manage Linux systems and servers.
• Perform key system administration tasks.
• Configure and troubleshoot networking in Linux.
• Implement security measures to protect Linux systems.

This instructor-led, live training in Gaia (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level system administrators and IT engineers who wish to efficiently manage RHEL systems, automate processes using Ansible, and prepare for Red Hat certifications.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure RHEL.
• Manage users, groups, and permissions effectively.
• Optimize file systems and manage storage.
• Automate administrative tasks using Ansible.
• Configure and manage network services.
• Implement security measures and system monitoring.
• Prepare for Red Hat certifications (RHCSA and RHCE).

This instructor-led, live training in Gaia (online or onsite) is aimed at IT professionals who wish to learn more about performing penetration testing and other security management with Kali Linux.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the internals of Kali Linux.
• Perform vulnerability scan and analysis.
• Manage file permissions and directories structure.
• Work with commands and shortcuts in hacker style.

This instructor-led, live training in Gaia (online or onsite) is aimed at individuals who want to gain a solid understanding of open-source IT and cloud computing fundamentals.

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Understand the principles of open-source software and its benefits.
• Navigate and utilize the Linux command-line interface.
• Comprehend cloud computing concepts and terminology.
• Explore various cloud deployment models and services.

The course answers the questions:

• How to perform basic operations on the system?
• Where to find information and how to get help?
• How does the power?
• What are the types of files in the system?
• How simply and quickly solve problems?

This instructor-led, live training in Gaia (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner and intermediate-level Linux users, system administrators, and developers who wish to gain hands-on experience in creating efficient and effective shell scripts.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand how the shell works and interact with Linux using BASH.
• Write, debug, and execute BASH scripts to automate repetitive tasks.
• Implement conditional statements, loops, and functions in scripts for enhanced functionality.
• Process and manipulate text files, search for patterns, and work with streams effectively.

In this instructor-led, live training in Gaia, participants will learn the critical features of DNS while carrying out exercises in the setup and configuration of a BIND DNS server on Linux. The course starts with a refresher on key networking principles, then digs into hands-on practice with setup and configuration. Steadily, the discussion and practices move towards more complex topics such as security, availability, debugging and troubleshooting.

• Created Linux/Unix Administrators and developers who are interested with getting involved in LInux/Unix Servers
• Even beginners, who have the basic skill and knowledge on Linux, can catch up with this course just if you follow the instructor's lab and explanation in detail.
• This course is intended to practice enough Managing Linux Servers and to show it is very easy to understand Linux/Unix servers.
• This course will be delivered to audience with 40% lectures, 50% labs and 10% Q&A. This five-day course strongly emphasizes lab-based activities.
• You'll learn how to deploy and manage Top 4 Linux Servers that provide highly useful network services to a mission-critical enterprise environment.
• It can be deliver on any distribution (Fedora, CentOS are commonly used)

This instructor-led, live training in Gaia (online or onsite) is aimed at DevOps engineers and developers who wish to use Fedora CoreOS to reduce the maintenance and upgrade costs of running  containerized applications on Kubernetes.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure Fedora CoreOS.
• Set up Kubernetes cluster on Fedora CoreOS.
• Run and manage Kubernetes deployments on Fedora CoreOS.
• Automatically update Fedora OS with the latest OS improvements, bug fixes, and security updates.

Go (Golang) is an open source programming language developed at Google. One of Go's popular use cases is Linux and Unix systems programming.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn the fundamentals of systems programming with Go as they step through hands-on exercises exploring the various features of Go.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Understand the fundamentals of Go systems programming
• Set up the Go development environment
• Write programs in Go
• Use both the basic and advanced features of Go for Unix and Linux systems programming
• Understand and use Goroutines
• Write fast and lightweight code with Go
• Write low-level networking code with Go

Audience

• Programmers
• Developers

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

This course aims to provide its participants with all the necessary tools to acquire the intermediate skills about the Linux operating system, so that they can edit, manage and structure the program in the way that is most convenient for their organization with a thorough intermediate knowledge of the operation of the system.

The LEDE Project (Linux Embedded Development Environment) is a Linux operating system based on OpenWrt. It is a complete replacement for the vendor-supplied firmware of a wide range of wireless routers and non-network devices.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to set up a LEDE based wireless router.

Audience

• Network administrators and technicians

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

This instructor-led, live training in Gaia (online or onsite) is aimed at individuals who want to expand their knowledge of Linux system configuration, administration, and command line environment.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

 manage networking, system services, user account creation and administration, and much more; you will also familiarize yourself with virtualization, containers, and DevOps concepts

This instructor-led, live training in Gaia (online or onsite) is aimed at individuals who desire to gain the necessary skills of Linux

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

to administer, configure and upgrade Linux systems running one of the three major Linux distribution families: Debian/Ubuntu andRed Hat/CentOS/Fedora, how to master the tools and concepts you’ll need to efficiently build and manage an enterprise Linux infrastructure

Learn core Linux Systems Administration skills in a workshop environment. (Ubuntu or CentOS)

Who is this course for:

Engineers who want to transition into Linux engineering and administration roles.
Beginners who want to understand how a Linux operating system works and how to manage it.
People looking to prepare for professional certifications such as the LPI level 1 or RHCSA.

Description:

This course is designed to teach you about the advantages of Linux-based operating systems, their role in enterprise, and how to understand and administer them. Aimed at relative beginners, we will teach you all the skills necessary to manage a small Linux estate.

Using a combination of demonstrations and practical exercises, we will guide you through the relevant commands, tools and processes you will need to know to become a successful administrator of a professional Linux environment.

The skills to properly run and maintain Linux environments are in very high demand.
If you have little or no experience working with Linux and wish to become a competent administrator quickly, this course will give you all the tools you need to enter the exciting and challenging world of Linux administration.

At the end of this course you will:

• Understand what GNU/Linux is, and its role in modern IT
• Be able to install a linux distribution from scratch
• Be able to configure users, groups, storage, and networking of a Linux-based computer
• Be able to confidently navigate the command line interface (CLI) on any Linux server
• Understand services, processes, and system resources
• Install, remove, and configure software.

Linux is an open source operating system that is popular among developers because of its stability, flexibility, and customizability.

In this instructor-led, live training, participants will learn how to use the Linux Command Line and implement basic commands.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Have a good understanding of the Linux File System and the Linux Command Line
• Learn how to navigate the Linux File System using Linux commands
• Learn how to create and manipulate files and directories using Linux commands
• Create their own Linux commands

Audience

• Anyone interested in getting started with Linux
• Windows or Mac users who are interested in switching to Linux
• Existing Linux users who want to be more effective in using the Linux Command Line

Format of the course

• Part lecture, part discussion, exercises and heavy hands-on practice

The primary objective of this practical course is to introduce the Linux high-availability stack (Pacemaker, DRBD) to system administrators. During the training, each participant will build a two-machine cluster that offers a simple highly-available service (such as PostgreSQL or NFS) on a virtual IP address. Also, uses of DRBD not related to high availability are considered.

During the course, participants will learn:

• What is denial of service attacks, Flooding, Sniffing, MIM?
• How to break from the network to the server?
• How to watch packets on the network (also running on switches)?
• Do you watch any combination of the world?
• How to monitor the network?
• How to configure a firewall?
• How to use encrypted connections?
• How to create tunnels?
• How to log packets?
• How to scan ports?
• How to reduce the number of unnecessary services on the server?

This instructor-led, live training in Gaia (online or onsite) is aimed at network engineers who wish to use Linux for network engineering.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up Linux services for networking.
• Replace switches with Linux switches.
• Use Linux commands to manage processes.
• Configure an SDN to automate network maintenance.

This Linux System Administration training course is designed for IT professionals who wish to learn core Linux System Administration skills.

Using a combination of demonstrations and practical exercises, this course will guide participants through the relevant commands, tools and processes needed to become a successful administrator of a professional Linux environment.

Participants will learn how to

• Setup, maintain and troubleshoot a Linux system
• Manage users on a Linux system
• Set up and install server software (web server, ftp server, vnc server, etc.)
• Deploy and monitor a production system
• Implement basic system security

Audience

• IT professionals on the path to becoming a Linux system administrator or network administrators
• Beginners who want to learn how to manage a Linux system.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion
• Lots of exercises and practice
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment

Course Customization Options

• Linux is available in different flavours (Debian/Ubuntu, CentOS/Fedora/Red Hat, Suse, etc.).
• This training can be customized for any flavor. Please contact us to arrange.

This instructor-led, live training in Gaia (online or onsite) is aimed at penetration testers who wish to penetrate test networks in Kali Linux using Python.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Create Python programs to seek network vulnerabilities.
• Explore and use Kali web shells and shellcode in exploits.
• Apply various Kali tools for penetration testing.
• Exploit systems with Python.

This practical course contains topics addressed to system administrators, developers, embedded developers and ordinary desktop users (including managers) who would like to have an introduction to virtualization in general. After this course, administrators will be able to create private clouds for use in production, and developers will be able to test their code on multiple operating systems without needing a second PC or a non-x86 board.

We understand that the set of topics presented in this course covered a wide range of subjects that might not be applicable for all customers. When booking this course, please specify what you wish to achieve using QEMU or KVM, and we will customize it by reallocating time from less relevant topics to the ones that would be important for you.

The 'RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux): Upgrading to 7' training focuses on the process of upgrading from 6.x to RHEL 7, covering Systemd, management tools, and new features. Participants will acquire skills in the area of Linux Container, Docker, Kubernetes, integration with Windows systems, as well as high availability clusters and Software Defined Storage Clusters using Ceph.

This instructor-led, live training in Gaia (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level system administrators and IT professionals who wish to effectively manage, optimize, and secure RHEL 8 environments using the latest tools and techniques.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure RHEL 8 for enterprise use.
• Use advanced tools like App Streams, Stratis, and the Virtual Data Optimizer for efficient storage management.
• Implement secure networking using NFTables and Firewalld.
• Automate systems administration tasks with Ansible, including the deployment and scaling of tasks.
• Manage the lifecycle of containers and secure deployments in production environments.

This instructor-led, live training in Gaia (online or onsite) is aimed at sysadmins and DevOps engineers who wish to use RHEL to perform administrative tasks and manage enterprise systems more efficiently.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Set up the necessary server environment for managing system administration tasks and operations with RHEL.
• Understand the benefits of RHEL and take advantage of its features to streamline administrative processes.
• Configure different file systems and manage them efficiently using the built-in services in RHEL.
• Reduce vulnerabilities and threats by implementing security hardening techniques on servers and network systems.
• Manage and deploy containers and images with RHEL using OCI-compatible tools (Podman, Skopeo and Buildah).

This course has been created for managers, system architects, existing Unix or Windows administrators or anyone who wants to know what Ubuntu Server operating system has to offer. This course in most cases answers the question WHAT Ubuntu Server can do for you, rather than HOW to do things. If you are interested in the HOW question then please have a look at our Administration of Linux System training course.

This course always covers the newest release of Ubuntu.

This 2 day course gives an introduction to the writing of UNIX Shell scripts using the Korn and Bash shells and to the more advanced features of UNIX including the batch editor sed and the text file processing language awk.

Although based on the Solaris version of UNIX running on a desktop PC, the principles learnt may be applied to all other versions of UNIX including Linux, AIX, HP-UX and SCO.

The course takes the format of a workshop, with a mix of lecture, working examples and practical exercises. Although the content may be customised, at least 1 day is normally needed to cover the core elements.

Full course notes are provided along with sample script files and free software tools for use in accessing a UNIX server.

This instructor-led, live training in Gaia (online or onsite) is aimed at intermediate-level virtualization administrators who wish to use open-source platforms to migrate away from VMware.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Install and configure KVM, oVirt, and Proxmox VE.
• Migrate virtual workloads from VMware.
• Implement high availability and disaster recovery.
• Optimize performance in open-source virtualization environments.