Course Details

The courses shown below are very flexible. Let me know what you would like to learn and I will create a course that meets your needs.

Classes start from $20 USD per hour.

We can have the class over Zoom/Teams/Google Voice/Zalo. I will provide a temporary Linux vitual machine where we will work together. If we break it we just spin up another!

If English is not your first language I will also teach you technical English at the same time.

Contact me at: Me@ElliotCooper.com

What do you need?

All you need is a laptop/desktop that runs Windows / MacOS / Linux.

The lessons will have the following form:

• We will then review the tools and techniques for the class.
• I will provide you with a Linux virtual server in a remote data center. If you break it we just spin up a new one!
• You will log in via SSH.
• You will complete exercises in a terminal shared with me using (tmux) while I assist and help you.

Beginner Course

• Installing and configuring Linux
• Connecting to a remote server: SSH
• Get to know your server: Disk/CPU/Memory
• Navigating the Linux file system
• Users, groups, and permissions
• Package management and installing software
• Standard IN, Standard OUT, Standard Error
• Reading, writing, and editing text files
• Service management with sysetmd
• Schedule tasks: cron and sysetmd
• Transferring files: rsync, FTP, SCP, SFTP
• Processing text: pipes, grep, sed, awk, cut, tail, head
• Basic networking and firewalls
• Archiving and compressing

Intermediate Course

• Bash one-liners
• Bash scripting
• Building packages from source
• Partitions, RAID, filesystems and LVM
• Installing and configuring common services such as: Apache2, NGINX, MySQL, PHP, HTTPS
• Installing and configuring platforms such as: Wordpress, Magento, Nextcloud, Syncthing
• Monitoring systems
• Backup systems
• Configuration management systems such as : Ansible, Puppet
• Troubleshooting and logging
• System Maintenance, system upgrades, recovery
• Shell Scripting
• Writing and debugging better to intermediate shell scripts
• Custom Course

I am happy to give you a free consultation and determine exactly what you want. Then, I will create a course that meets your requirements exactly.