Several times in April, we’ll also be live streaming on YouTube about the latest Course launches and Hands-On Labs. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, or LinkedIn to interact and engage with our team. Who knows, Course Authors, celebrities, or even I may be making an appearance!

Our team has been working hard to create these new courses and features, so we can’t wait for all of you to start digging in. We’re so excited to bring you along with us on this journey in April and equipping you with the latest and greatest. YOU are our inspiration, and our team can’t thank you enough for all of your recommendations, suggestions, and feedback. Thank you for being a part of the family, and we can’t wait to continue this journey with you. Be on the lookout – we’ve got a lot in store for 2018!
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In addition to our current features including 6 Cloud Servers for you to spin up and Hands-on Labs for you to gain real-world skills through taking actions in live environments, we’ve got some great Linux Academy content and features (like the new Practice Exams system) coming for you in 2018 that we can’t wait to share with you. Thank you for using Linux Academy and thank you so much for your amazing feedback so far – please keep them coming!
It’s a great time to get started on your training! If you’re not already training with us, we’ve got a 7-days free trial that gets you access to all of our platforms — Linux Academy. We hope to see you on the other side!

Livestream On-Demand

EP 1 – Mon, April 2 – Quick Tour of Linux Academy office in Keller, TX with Anthony James
EP 2 – Tues, April 3 – Introducing: Google Cloud Security Essentials & New Practice Exams System
EP 3 – Wed, April 4 – Introducing: Google App Engine Deep Dive with interactive diagrams
EP 4 – Thurs, April 5 – Introducing: AWS IAM Deep Dive & AWS Security discussion
EP 5 – Fri, April 6 – Introducing: Building a Serverless Chatbot with AWS Lex ; Scale Your Code Episodes Coming!
EP 6 – Mon, April 9 – Introducing: Deploy and Manage OpenStack on Ubuntu – Pike & State of OpenStack
EP 7 – Tues, April 10 – Introducing: DevOps Essentials & Careers in DevOps
EP 8 – Wed, April 11 – Introducing: 2 AWS CSA Challenges on Cloud Assessments & A Deeper Dive into the Cloud Assessments Platform
EP 9 – Thurs, April 12 – Introducing: New AWS Security Basics Quest
EP 10 – Mon, April 23 – Introducing: Mastering Systemd, Cloud Foundry Certified Developer, & Elastic Stack Essentials

EP 11 – Wed, April 25 – Introducing: NGINX Web Server Deep Dive, Source Control With Git, & Using Salt for Configuration Management and Orchestration
EP 12 – Mon, April 30 – Introducing: Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (V3.18), Red Hat Certified Specialist in Platform-as-a-Service Exam (EX280) Prep Course (OpenShift), CoreOS Essentials, Deploying to AWS with Ansible and Terraform, Managing Applications and Infrastructure with Terraform, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate (Rebuild), AWS Learn By Doing

New Courses:
Tues, April 3 – Fully grasp Google Cloud Security Essentials concepts through our new course packed with 6 quizzes to really test your knowledge

Wed, April 4 – Complete with 9 quizzes, learn and understand how to manage and build an app with Google App Engine Deep Dive.

Thurs, April 5 – Explore AWS IAM Deep Dive through our Hands-On Labs that focuses on user and group management, as well as assigning access to specific resources using IAM managed policies.

Fri, April 6 – Utilizing a live AWS environment through our Hands-On Labs, learn how to create the fulfillment and validation lambda functions to Build a Serverless Chatbot with AWS Lex that can integrate with Slack.

Mon, April 9 – Deploy and Manage OpenStack on Ubuntu – Pike contains 3 Hands-On Labs to master the skills of: using the CLI, setting ACLs in Swift, and managing policies!

Tues, April 10 – DevOps Essentials with a Hands-On Lab where you’ll create a DevOps pipeline all the way from making a code change to deploying that change to a production environment.

Wed, April 11 – 2 new Hands-On Labs Content & Media Delivery and EFS Storage Solutions
 
Thurs, April 12 – Test your skills in VPC network security, encryption, S3 best practices, and more as you configure Travel Salmon’s infrastructure security in the latest AWS Security Basics Quest

Mon, April 23 – Develop your skills in: working with wervices in Systemd – Start/Stop/Restart/Status, changing the default target of a system, creating a Systemd compatible CentOS 7 container and creating a Systemd compatible Debian container in Mastering Systemd

Deploy your apps to Cloud Foundry and connect backing services like MySQL, MongoDB and Memcache to it in Cloud Foundry Certified Developer (complete with 19 Hands-On Labs)

Create a log aggregation pipeline for the system authentication and syslog log files on a Linux/Unix system to collect and store usage data in Elastic Stack Essentials

Prepare for your career in system administration through the 15 hands-on labs in Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (v3.18) where you’ll get hands-on experience in: managing file attributes & permissions, installing and managing packages on different systems, deploying a web server with vHost, generating & exchanging SSH keys for secure access, creating users & groups, and more!

Get in-depth training on managing & using Red Hat OpenShift Container platform in 10 hands-on OpenShift Hands-On Labs with Red Hat Certified in Platform-as-a-Service Exam Prep Course

& follow along with a pre-configured environment to learn how CoreOS is used for container implementations & clustering in CoreOS Essentials 

Get a hands-on introduction to deploying an actual infrastructure to AWS using Terraform and Ansible where you’ll get to create your own blog in Deploying to AWS with Ansible and Terraform

Understand the basics of Terraform functions & parameters that will allow you to create masterful deployments capable of utilizing the benefits of Infrastructure as Code in Managing Applications and Infrastructure with Terraform

Administer applications on AWS from an operations viewpoint based on information from monitoring, auditing, and gathering performance feedback in AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate to get your certification!

Completely immerse yourself in the world of AWS through 29 Hands-On Labs to become an AWS master while gaining actual skills in AWS Learn by Doing


Here’s the list of all the hands-on content we released in April!