Tools / Developer tools and DevOps
Linux administration
Users, permissions, processes, services, logs and packages. The machine everything else runs on.
About 20 hours of study. It builds on The shell and command-line tools.
Where to learn it
Livia Lima and contributors
Days 1–20
Twenty short daily lessons on a real server you set up yourself.
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Your route to Linux administration
Pick where you’re starting from. Anything your background already covers is left out, and the rest is put in order.
2 stops to go, about 28 hours of study.
Open a stop to see the book, the video course and the practice for it. Tick its circle when you've finished.
- 8 h
Programming. Ready to start.
- 20 h
Infrastructure and operations. After The shell and command-line tools.
That's the whole route to Linux administration.
Which roles ask for it
- DevOps / site reliability engineer to get hired
- Platform engineer to get hired
- System administrator to get hired
- Database administrator to get hired
- Penetration tester to get hired
- Security engineer to get hired
- Cloud engineer to get hired
- Application support engineer to get hired
- Security analyst (SOC) to get hired
What it needs and what it leads to: Linux administration on the map.