[Good stuff] OPS School

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Content:

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[*]Introduction
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[*]Goals and Focus
[*]Syllabus layout
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[*]Contributions
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[*]How we’ll organize work
[*]How to contribute
[*]Rewards for contributions
[*]Ops School Videos
[*]How to write sections
[*]Overwriting existing content
[*]Credits
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[*]Guidelines
[*]Careers in Operations
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[*]Deciding a career path
[*]Generalized career paths
[*]Specialized career paths
[*]How to become an operations engineer
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[*]Sysadmin 101
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[*]What is Systems Administration?
[*]What is Development?
[*]Contrasting Development and Operations
[*]History of Development and Operations
[*]What System Administration Isn’t
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[*]Unix fundamentals 101
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[*]File systems
[*]Shells
[*]Package management
[*]The Boot Process
[*]Useful shell tools
[*]Crontab
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[*]Unix fundamentals 201
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[*]Kernel tuning
[*]Signals
[*]Syscalls
[*]Booting over the network
[*]/bin/init and its descendants
[*]Looking at system metrics
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[*]MS Windows fundamentals 101
[*]Text Editing 101
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[*]A little history
[*]vi basics
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[*]Text Editing 201
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[*]Vim
[*]Emacs
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[*]Tools for productivity
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[*]Terminal emulators
[*]SSH
[*]SSH Use Cases
[*]Multiplexers
[*]Shell customisations
[*]Mosh
[*]Ticketing systems
[*]Note-taking
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[*]Security 101
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[*]Authentication in unix
[*]Adding and deleting users and groups
[*]Standard unix filesystem permissions
[*]PAM
[*]Chroot, jails and containers
[*]Sudo (or, “Why you should not log in as root”)
[*]History and Lore
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[*]Security 201
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[*]Centralised accounts
[*]Firewalls and packet filters
[*]Public Key Cryptography
[*]Two factor authentication
[*]Building systems to be auditable
[*]Network Intrusion Detection
[*]Host Intrusion Detection
[*]Defense practices
[*]Risk and risk management
[*]Compliance: The bare minimum
[*]Dealing with security incidents
[*]ACLs and extended attributes (xattrs)
[*]SELinux
[*]Data placement
[*]Additional reading
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[*]Troubleshooting
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[*]Methodologies
[*]Working effectively during a crisis
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[*]Networking 101
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[*]The RFC Documents
[*]OSI 7-layer model (OSI Reference Model)
[*]TCP/IP (ARPA) 4-layer model
[*]IP Addressing
[*]TCP vs UDP
[*]Subnetting, netmasks and CIDR
[*]Private address space (RFC 1918)
[*]Static routing
[*]NAT
[*]Networking cable
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[*]Networking 201
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[*]VLANs, 802.1q tagging
[*]Spanning Tree
[*]Static Routing
[*]Dynamic routing protocols (RIP, OSPF, BGP)
[*]ACLs
[*]Network Bonding (802.3ad / LACP link aggregation)
[*]IOS switch configuration
[*]GRE and other tunnels
[*]Multi-homed hosts
[*]Similarities and differences between IPv4 and IPv6 networking
[*]Implications of dual-stack firewalls (especially under Linux)
[*]Multicast uses and limitations
[*]Latency vs. Bandwidth
[*]VPNs
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[*]Common services
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[*]System daemons 101
[*]DNS 101
[*]DNS 201
[*]DHCP
[*]HTTP 101 (Core protocol)
[*]HTTP 201 (Application Servers & Frameworks)
[*]SMTP 101
[*]SMTP 201
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[*]Identity Management 101
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[*]LDAP
[*]NIS
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[*]Active Directory 101
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[*]What is Active Directory?
[*]What is Active Directory used for?
[*]You mention “separate components”; what is Active Directory composed of?
[*]What specific services does Active Directory provide?
[*]Best Practices for managing an Active Directory installation
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[*]Active Directory 201
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[*]Detailed Breakdown of Active Directory Components/Services
[*]Advanced Active Directory Maintenance
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[*]Remote Filesystems 101
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[*]NFSv3
[*]iSCSI
[*]SAMBA/CIFS
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[*]Remote Filesystems 201
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[*]GlusterFS
[*]NFSv4
[*]Netatalk / AFP
[*]S3
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[*]Programming 101
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[*]Shell scripting basics
[*]Regular Expressions
[*]Sed & awk
[*]GIGO
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[*]Programming 201
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[*]Common elements in scripting, and what they do
[*]C (A very basic overview)
[*]Ruby
[*]Python
[*]Version Control
[*]API design fundamentals
[*]Continuous Integration
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[*]Hardware 101
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[*]Hardware Types
[*]Basic server architecture
[*]Disk management
[*]Performance/Redundancy
[*]Troubleshooting
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[*]Datacenters 101
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[*]Power budgets
[*]Cooling budgets
[*]You will be judged by the tidiness of your rack
[*]Machine and cable labeling
[*]Traditional naming conventions
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[*]Datacenters 201
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[*]Networking many racks
[*]Power
[*]Cooling
[*]Physical security and common security standards compliance requirements
[*]Suggested practices
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[*]Datacenters 301
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[*]Power
[*]Increasing cooling efficiency
[*]Design Options
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[*]Virtualization 101
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[*]Intro to virtualization technologies
[*]The Cloud
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[*]Virtualization 201
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[*]Managing virtualized infrastructures (Private clouds)
[*]Leveraging virtualization for development
[*]Leveraging virtualization for production
[*]Security implications of virtualization
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[*]Logs 101
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[*]Common system logs & formats
[*]Standard Error
[*]Log files
[*]Syslog
[*]Log rotation, append, truncate
[*]Retention and archival
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[*]Logs 201
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[*]Centralized logging
[*]Log parsing
[*]Search & Correlation
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[*]Databases 101 (Relational Databases)
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[*]What is a Database?
[*]What is a Relational Database?
[*]Why We Use Databases?
[*]What is SQL?
[*]SQL shell
[*]Creating databases
[*]Creating users
[*]Create Tables
[*]Alter Table
[*]Drop Table
[*]Data Type
[*]Granting privileges
[*]Removing Privileges
[*]Basic normalized schema design
[*]Select, Insert, Update and Delete
[*]Pro Tips
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[*]Databases 201
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[*]Database Theory
[*]Document Databases
[*]Key-value Stores
[*]Graph Databases
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[*]Application Components 201
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[*]Message Brokers
[*]Memory Caches
[*]Specialized Caches
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[*]Load Balancing
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[*]Why do we use load balancers?
[*]Application implications
[*]Non-HTTP use cases
[*]Software
[*]Hardware
[*]Multi-dc
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[*]Monitoring, Notifications, and Metrics 101
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[*]History: How we used to monitor, and how we got better (monitors as tests)
[*]Perspective (end-to-end) vs Introspective monitoring
[*]Metrics: what to collect, what to do with them
[*]Common tools
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[*]Monitoring, Notifications, and Metrics 201
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[*]Dataviz & Graphing
[*]Graphite, StatsD
[*]Dashboard: Info for ops and info for the business
[*]Third-party tools
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[*]Business Continuity Planning
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[*]Backups
[*]Outages
[*]Postmortems
[*]Disaster Recovery
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[*]Architecture 101
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[*]How to make good architecture decisions
[*]Patterns and anti-patterns
[*]Introduction to availability
[*]Introduction to scalability
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[*]Architecture 201
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[*]Service Oriented Architectures
[*]Fault tolerance, fault protection, masking, dependability fundamentals
[*]Caching Concerns
[*]Crash only
[*]Synchronous vs. Asynchronous
[*]Business continuity vs. Disaster Recovery
[*]Designing for Scalability: Horizontal, Vertical
[*]Simplicity
[*]Performance
[*]Tiered architectures
[*]MTTR > MTBF
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[*]Configuration Management 101
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[*]A Brief History of Configuration Management
[*]Idempotence
[*]Convergent and Congruent systems
[*]Direct and Indirect systems: ansible, capistrano
[*]Chef
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[*]Configuration Management 201
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[*]Ansible
[*]Puppet
[*]Cfengine 3
[*]SaltStack
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[*]Capacity Planning
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[*]Fundamentals of capacity planning
[*]Forecasting
[*]Diagonal scaling
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[*]Statistics For Engineers
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[*]Normal distributions
[*]Percentiles, histograms, averages, mean, medians
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[*]Software Deployment 101
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[*]Software deployment vs configuration management
[*]Running services
[*]Package management
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[*]Software Deployment 201
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[*]Running services
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[*]Soft Skills 101
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[*]Communication basics
[*]Communication Modes
[*]Special cases for operations
[*]Time Management
[*]Project Management
[*]The Tao of DevOps
[*]The importance of Documentation
[*]Working with other teams
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[*]Soft Skills 201
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[*]Business Acumen in Operations
[*]Understanding the role of operations
[*]Thinking broadly
[*]Promoting Change
[*]Building basic business skills
[*]Specific Examples
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[*]Labs exercises
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[*]Bare-Metal Provisioning 101
[*]Bare-Metal Provisioning 201
[*]Cloud Provisioning 101
[*]Cloud Provisioning 201
[*]Database 101
[*]Database 201
[*]Database 301
[*]Automation 101
[*]Automation - Chef 201
[*]Automation - Chef 301
[*]Automation - Chef 302
[*]Automation - Puppet 201
[*]Automation - Puppet 301
[*]Package Management 101
[*]Package Management 201
[*]Build automation fleets
[*]Version Control with Git 101
[*]DNS 101
[*]HTTP 101
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[*]Learning and the Community
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[*]Learning and strategies for improvement
[*]Things to keep in mind as you learn how to be an engineer
[*]Golden rules for careers in ops
[*]Where to look for help in the community
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[*]See also
[*]Contributions
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[*]How we’ll organize work
[*]How to contribute
[*]Rewards for contributions
[*]Ops School Videos
[*]How to write sections
[*]Overwriting existing content
[*]Credits
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[*]Conventions
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[*]Style Guide
[*]Sample Network
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[*]Style Guide
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[*]Editing
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[*]Glossary
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Link:

http://www.opsschool.org/en/latest/index.html