Overview
Automation is essential to running Linux in the enterprise effectively. Automation lets you minimize costs by reducing manual operations, helps ensure compliance across the data center, standardizes your software infrastructure and accelerates deployments for your bare-metal and cloud infrastructures. This course will teach you how to use automation to achieve these outcomes.
What you will learn?
In this course, you will learn how to participate in architectural decisions involving data center automation, and to understand advanced system administration concepts and techniques that take scalability, reproducibility and efficiency into account. The course also covers how to provision physical (bare-metal) and virtual hosts in a consistent and scalable way, deploy configuration management tools in an heterogeneous Linux environment, package software releases on both RPM and DPKG based systems, plan, build and customize OS releases in your environment and more.
What you will gain?
This course prepares you with everything you need to know to implement Linux automation tools in an enterprise environment.
Requirements
Fluent Linux skills.
Audience
This course is designed for IT professionals who are responsible for automating enterprise Linux systems.
Experience Level: Advanced
Course Outline
Introduction
- Linux Foundation
- Linux Foundation Training
- Linux Foundation Certifications
- Linux Foundation Digital Badges
- Laboratory Exercises, Solutions and Resources
- Distribution Details
- Labs
Enhanced Systems Administration
- What Makes A Good Systems Administrator
- “Soft” Skills and Tools
- Hard Skills And Tools
- Other Concerns
- Labs
Software Management
- Manual Software Lifecycle
- Package Management
- Creating Your Own Packages
- Creating Debian Packages
- Creating RPM Packages
- Creating Packages of Third Party Software
- Rebuilding OS supplied Packages
- Advanced Packaging Tips
- GPG Sign Your Packages
- Labs
Packaging Automation
- Preparing Packages for Automatic Building
- Automation Frameworks
- Labs
Software Distribution
- Introduction to Software Distribution
- Repository Management
- Creating Repositories
- Using Third Party Repositories
- Mirroring Repositories
- Labs
Installation Tree Management
- CentOS Installation Trees
- Debian/Ubuntu Install Trees
- Labs
Automating Installation
- Automating Installation
- Automating Installation with Kickstart
- Using Kickstart Files
- Debian Preseed
- Further Automation
- Labs
Installation Tools: Cobbler
- Cobbler Overview
- Cobbler Setup
- Using Cobbler
- Advanced Cobbler
- Other Tools
- Labs
Configuration Management Overview
- What is Configuration Management
- Configuration Management Methods
- Overview of Configuration Management Tools
- Labs
Configuration Management with Puppet
- Puppet Overview
- Puppet Terminology
- Puppet Setup
- Puppet Configuration
- Puppet Operations
- Advanced Puppet Concepts
- Labs
Configuration Management with Salt
- Salt Overview
- Salt Terminology
- Salt Setup
- Salt Configuration
- Salt Operations
- Advanced Salt Concepts
- Labs
Configuration Management with Chef
- Chef Overview
- Chef Setup
- Using Chef Workstation
- Labs
Configuration Management with Ansible
- Ansible Overview
- Ansible Setup
- Ansible Configuration
- Ansible Operations
- Advanced Ansible Concepts
- Labs
Spacewalk Server
- Installing Spacewalk Server
- Deploying Spacewalk Clients
- Managing Changes with Spacewalk
- Scripting with the Spacewalk API
- Labs
Channel Management with Spacewalk
- Spacewalk API
- Example Workflow
- Labs
Configuration Management CFEngine ** (OPTIONAL)
- CFEngine Overview
- CFEngine Setup
- CFEngine Configuration
- CFEngine Operations
- Advanced CFEngine Concepts
- Labs