DevOps Certification Training

This course provides a basic introduction to the concept of DevOps. It seeks to give the student a working knowledge of what DevOps is and how it impacts IT in the real world. This course explains the culture of DevOps as well as some of the main practices and tools associated with DevOps. It also introduces the student to the close relationship between DevOps and the cloud.

This course is for those new to the Elastic Stack to get an introductory overview of its core services (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats), features, terms, and basic administration. This course will follow a real-world use case of setting up a log aggregation pipeline for web access logs and analyzing said logs with Kibana via search, visualizations, and dashboards.

If you are looking for "ELK Stack" material, this is the place! Now that Elastic Stack is more than ElasticSearch, LogStash and Kibana, the "ELK" naming convention has been retired!

Although Jenkins is a complex topic that we cover in depth elsewhere on the site, this course will give you a quick introduction and provide just enough information for you to build your own Jenkins server and get started using it to perform remote builds and management.

This course covers the DevSecOps process with an emphasis on securing both legacy and hybrid cloud environments. Best practices for security are covered in a conventional Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline.

Containers and container orchestration are in the process of transforming the way the technology industry does what it does. If you are not familiar with these technologies, it can be a little difficult to understand what people are talking about when they talk about containers! This course will offer you a non-technical beginner-level introduction to the concepts of containers and container orchestration. It will discuss some of the tools and buzzwords that you may have heard in association with these technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes, and it will give you an understanding of what they mean. If you want to gain a better understanding of what containers and orchestration are all about, this is the course for you!

YAML Essentials gives even the absolute YAML beginner the skills they need to craft documents using this popular data serialization language. Used across a variety of programs and languages for a vast array of reasons, YAML is a popular choice for data storage, configuration files, configurations management, and more. This course explores how to write a properly structured YAML file in both the human-readable block style and the JSON-compatible flow style.

This course is designed to teach you how to program using Python. We'll cover the building blocks of the language, programming design fundamentals, how to use the standard library, third-party packages, and how to create Python projects. In the end, you should have a grasp of how to program.

By the time you've finished this course you will be able to:

• Read, write, and understand Python code
• Have an basic understanding of Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
• Utilize Python as a primary language for tooling
• Develop Python projects from start to finish

Linux Academy has many innovative tools and services, like your own cloud lab, that cannot be found anywhere else. The robust offering we have developed, which is focused around student success, and how to use that offering can be found here within this course. Anybody looking to maximize their learning and to maximize the value they receive from a Linux Academy membership should go through this course.

Linux Academy provides more content, hands-on labs, your own cloud lab, and more value per dollar than any other training provider.

This course is a replacement for the older "Introduction To Linux Academy" course.

During the lessons, learning activities and hands-on components of this course, the student will gain knowledge about CoreOS. You will walk through a local installation as well as how to use our Cloud Servers in order to follow along with our demos. Whether it is using CoreOS for container implementations, clustering, or understanding how to update and view reports, this course will allow you to gain hands-on experience with CoreOS.

This is an introductory course that will help get someone new to Git up and running with it quickly. We will show you the basics of working out of your own local repository, and then we will apply those skills to working with remote repositories such as the ones you would find on GitHub and BitBucket.

We will also see how we can install our own web-based Git server by using the free version of GitLab. So if you ever wanted to learn the basics of working with Git, this is the course for you.

Follow right on the heels of the Elastic Stack Essentials course with the Elasticsearch Deep Dive. Get to understand and go hands-on with the core functionality of Elasticsearch (installing, indexing, querying). Next, learn how to configure it for production use with TLS encryption, user access control, monitoring, and alerting with X-Pack and automated management with Elasticsearch Curator. Get to understand best practices around heap and cluster sizing, hardware requirements, and performing live upgrades.

The CI/CD Pipeline has become an integral part of DevOps culture. There are a variety of tools and techniques for implementing such a pipeline. This course will provide you with a hands-on experience of building out a CI/CD pipeline from start to finish. It begins with source control management and ends with a a fully-orchestrated pipeline using Jenkins and Kubernetes, complete with self-healing, autoscaling, and canary testing functionality.

In this course, you will gain fluency with Chef and its ecosystem. Following along with the lessons, challenges, and live environments in this course will provide you with the experience necessary to be able to deploy and utilize Chef for configuration management. For the Basic Chef Fluency Badge exam, you'll need to be able to articulate the ideas present in Chef and its tools and how to use them on a basic level.

This course will take you from the basics of Terraform to more advanced deployments that will allow you to create masterful Terraform deployments of your own involving Docker, AWS, Kubernetes, and other technologies that are capable of utilizing the benefits of Infrastructure as Code or IaC.

This course will not only teach you the basics of Terraform and Ansible, but it will also help you to better understand AWS and deploy your very own blog! This blog can be used to represent yourself, help your portfolio, or it can even be used to quickly test out new tools and DevOps procedures! 

Designing an application, writing code, solving complex algorithms - that is the easy part. We all know that the true hero is the person who can manage and deploy the code once it has been created. This is where AWS Developer Tools step in and allows you to become the hero every organization needs. AWS CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, and CodePipeline provides all the tools needed to successfully store, manage, and deploy your code to a fleet of servers (or just one) - in either the cloud, on-premise, or both. These services include: CodeCommit: A Git based version control system CodeDeploy: Automate deployments to test, developer & production environments CodePipeline: Create deployment models, and visual deployment workflow So what are you waiting for? Linux Academy will be with you each step-of-the-way, providing the best instructional videos so you can learn and, most importantly, implement what you have learned into real life scenarios.

In this course, you will develop the skills that you need to write effective and powerful scripts and tools using Python 3. We will go through the necessary features of the Python language to be able to leverage its additional benefits in writing scripts and creating command line tools (data types, loops, conditionals, functions, error handling, and more). Beyond the language itself, you will go through the full development process including project set up, planning, and automated testing to build two different command line tools.

In this course, you will develop the skills that you need to write effective and powerful scripts and tools using Python. We will go through the necessary features of the Python language to be able to leverage its additional benefits in writing scripts and creating command line tools (data types, loops, conditionals, functions, error handling, and more). Beyond the language itself, you will go through the full development process including project set up, planning, and automated testing to build two different command line tools.

Using Salt for Configuration Management and Orchestration teaches how to use Salt (SaltStack) to work with Linux-based infrastructure. The course begins by exploring the fundamentals and components of Salt, then demonstrates how to install, configure, and manage Salt using a master-minion setup. Next, we learn about Salt execution modules, which allows us to perform actions on multiple servers, and Salt states, which allow us to define end-state recipes for configuring our infrastructure. We also deep dive into creating formulas and learn how to use Jinja and Pillar to produce modular formulas that can be reused.

This course will prepare the prospective student to successfully pass the Docker Certified Associate exam. In addition, you will find that the the subjects and materials covered within this course will also equip the successful candidate with the knowledge and experience needed to run Docker clusters and workloads in a complex production environment.

The Chef Local Cookbook Development Badge course is designed to prepare you for the Chef Local Cookbook Development Badge exams. By passing the exams and obtaining this badge, you will demonstrate your ability to properly develop a basic Chef cookbook. If you obtain the badge you will be on your way to obtaining a Chef certification. 

This course is designed for those who are seeking a career in DevOps by preparing you for the System Administration Using Puppet certification exam.  You will learn how to manage infrastructure using Puppet Enterprise with common best practices.

NOTE: Ret Hat has recently retired the "Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containerized Application Development (EX276)" exam. There is no longer an exam/certification on this topic offered by Red Hat. Instead of removing the course, we have decided to leave it published as the topic covered and skills taught are still valid. We will, however, not be updating the course in the future.

The Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containerized Application Development course is designed to teach you how to implement and run services as Docker containers. Through taking this course, you will learn the skills, knowledge, and abilities needed to create and update container images and to run and link containers.

In this course, you will develop all of the skills needed to write effective and complex shell scripts that can automate mundane tasks and complex implementations. We will walk you through all of the major components and key words in shell scripting (loops, conditionals, functions, error handling, traps, signals and more) so you can effectively write your scripts to handle any situation. You will find a comprehensive study guide, an instructor note card set and a full SIXTEEN PAGES of sample shell scripts developed during the course, all available for your download and reference.

Understanding open source RDBMS systems is an important skill for a successful system administrator or engineer.

This course will help you gain a deep understanding of how to install and coonfigure PostgreSQL v9.4. Once you have the server itself, we will take a look at creating users that can access our RDBMS and setting up a basic schema, as well as how to create basic replication and do simple backup/restore.

Finally, we will show you how to build and work with that schema in order to understand data types, inserting, updating and deleting records.

In this course, you will gain the ability to customize and extend Chef. Following along with the lessons and learning activities in this course will provide you with the experience necessary to be able to add features to Chef and the associated tools. For the Extending Chef Badge exam, you'll need to be able to describe how and why to extend Chef's various tools. You will also need to demonstrate that you have the ability to extend Chef. This course will provide you with all of the knowledge and hands-on experience necessary to be comfortable extending Chef and to pass the exam.

The purpose of this course is to prepare students to pass the Certified Jenkins Engineer 2018 exam. Student will learn CI/CD concepts as well as Jenkins installation and functionality. We will discuss Best practices for CD pipelines as well as taking a look at Jenkins Securtiy.

You learn faster and better when you learn by doing. With that in mind, this course has been designed to teach you core Docker fundamentals and features through a 100% hands-on experience. To accomplish this, Linux Academy's Training Architects have hand selected a set of the best Docker Hands-on Labs we have to offer.

Everything you do in this course will be inside of a real Linux environment that is provided to you through our Hands-on Lab and Cloud Playground platform.

No reason to wait - Learn by Doing today!!

Kubernetes provides many powerful tools to help manage complex applications. In order to fully utilize all that Kubernetes has to offer, you need some understanding of its features and how to design application to run on Kubernetes. The Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD) certification focuses on these topics.

This course will help you prepare for the exam, so that you can earn your certification. Even if you are not interested in becoming certified, this course can help you learn how to design and build applications for Kubernetes!

As one of the early log aggregation products in the IT industry, Splunk has remained a popular choice amongst system administrators, engineers, and developers for operational analytics. Whether you are aggregating log files, system resource utilization metrics, or application data, Splunk is there to centralize your IT data for easy search and visualization.

This course serves as in introduction to Splunk Enterprise. After getting familiar with some basic terminology and components, you will get to follow along by setting up your own standalone Splunk instance through the Linux Academy Cloud Playground. With your own instance, you can follow along as we secure our standalone Splunk instance, configure monitoring and alerting, and finally index some log data to perform search and visualization analysis.

Docker is a powerful tool for running and managing containers. Docker is currently the industry-leading container runtime, and offers a variety of features around container management and orchestration.

The Docker Certified Associate is a certification provided by Docker to validate your skills as a Docker practitioner. In this course, we will cover the concepts and objectives you need to know in order to effectively use Docker as well as earn your certification. You will learn how to use the core features contained in Docker Community Edition, as well as the additional enterprise features provided by Docker Enterprise Edition.

Special Note: This course is being brought to you via Early Access. Check out the Introduction section for a video on how to be sure you get the most out of this preview of the course!

You learn faster and better when you learn by doing. With that in mind, this course has been designed to allow you to practice core Ansible Configuration Management and Deployment through a 100% hands-on experience. To accomplish this, Linux Academy's Training Architects have hand selected a set of the best Ansible Hands-on Labs we have to offer.

Everything you do in this course will be on one or more Linux servers provisioned with whatever you need through our Hands-on Lab and Cloud Playground platform.

No reason to wait - Learn by Doing today!!

You learn faster and better when you learn by doing. With that in mind, this course has been designed to allow you to practice core Jenkins Builds through a 100% hands-on experience. To accomplish this, Linux Academy's Training Architects have hand selected a set of the best Jenkins Hands-on Labs we have to offer.

Everything you do in this course will be on one or more Linux servers provisioned with whatever you need through our Hands-on Lab and Cloud Playground platform.

No reason to wait - Learn by Doing today!!

The Chef Local Cookbook Development Badge course is designed to prepare you for the Chef Local Cookbook Development Badge exams. By passing the exams and obtaining this badge, you will demonstrate your ability to properly develop a basic Chef cookbook.

Earning this Chef Badge shows you have the skills to develop a basic cookbook in Chef.
It shows you have the ability to take a process that exists and automate it, demonstrating your understanding of creating a cookbook. You will have shown your ability to validate the functionality of the cookbook before it is run on production or 'live' infrastructure.

If you obtain the badge you will be on your way to obtaining Chef certification.

Special Note: This course is being brought to you via Early Access. Check out the Introduction section for a video on how to be sure you get the most out of this preview of the course!

The AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional exam tests the candidate's technical expertise in provisioning, operating, and managing distributed application systems on the AWS platform. For this exam, you should know how to:

• Implement and manage continuous delivery systems and methodologies on AWS
• Understand, implement, and automate security controls, governance processes, and compliance validation
• Define and deploy monitoring, metrics, and logging systems on AWS
• Implement systems that are highly available, scalable, and self-healing on the AWS platform
• Design, manage, and maintain tools to automate operational processes

This course is designed to provide you with the knowledge and skills required to pass the AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional exam and to successfully apply these skills in the workplace.

NOTE: AWS transitioned to a new exam in February 2019, and we've updated our course material to reflect the changes.

The DevOps movement has entered the maturity stage in Information Technology. The philosophy behind DevOps is well understood at this point, and more and more tools are being developed to enable the implementation of that philosophy.

This course will prepare the prospective engineer for the LPIC DevOps Tools Engineer Certification exam. We'll take a broad look at a large number of tools that are commonly used in DevOps environments and gain a better understanding of how they enable DevOps in any enterprise environment.

This course is designed for those who are seeking a career in DevOps. You will learn the ins and outs of Cloud Foundry. This will include the architecture and various components of Cloud Foundry, how to tailor your apps to ensure that they will run correctly when you execute a cf push, and how to write a manifest that will make your deploy process repeatable and predictable. You will also learn how to perform blue-green deployments of your apps already running in Cloud Foundry. Last but not least, this course will prepare you for taking the Cloud Foundry Certified Developer exam.

The performance-based Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Server Hardening exam (EX413) tests your ability to perform a number of systems administration tasks focused on securing servers against unauthorized access.

Ever wonder if there was a tool that was powerful enough to handle cross-platform administration while allowing advanced customization? Introducing PowerShell Core!

We are excited to bring our members a course on PowerShell Core for Linux. With the proliferation of open-source solutions and direction changes at Microsoft, a decision was made to open-source the .NetCore platform. With the assitance of this move, Microsoft also released an open-source version of PowerShell to allow cross platform administration and advanced shell functionality. With this powerful tool, an administrator can work in multiple environments be it in the Cloud or on-premise while using a tool that is now a unified cross-platform experience.

Join Me, while I go over the core usage of the platform while covering advanced topics like scripting and cloud integration!

Elasticsearch has become a favorite technology of administrators, engineers, and developers alike. Whether you are using it with the rest of the Elastic Stack, or on its own, Elasticsearch is a powerful and user-friendly search and analytics engine. Log aggregation, operational analytics, application performance monitoring, NoSQL databases, site search, and ad-hoc data analysis are just a few of the many things Elasticsearch is used for. The Elastic Certified Engineer Certification was created to recognize IT professionals with expertise in Elasticsearch. An Elastic Certified Engineer can design and deploy a complete Elasticsearch solution.

DISCLAIMER: This is not an official Elastic Company course created by or approved by the Elastic Company. The Linux Academy is in no away affiliated with Elastic Company or ElasticSearch BPV.