Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 New Features For Experienced Administrators (Rh354)
Course Description
Prepare yourself for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 by learning about changes to the operating system.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 New Features for Experienced Linux Administrators (RH354) introduces you to updates in the upcoming Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® release. Intended for experienced Linux system administrators, this course offers a rapid orientation to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 based on the pre-release beta. The offering prepares operators, managers, principal system administrators, and other IT professionals with experience in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 for deployments and migrations to the new release.
This course is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
About this course
What You'll Learn
- Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 using the new packaging, modularity, and appstream features.
- Upgrade from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 using new tools.
- Perform integrated file system and volume management using Stratis.
- Use Cockpit for system management.
- Create system images with Composer.
- Configure Identity Management using authselect.
- Understand the Wayland graphical display server.
- Deploy containers using the new integrated OCI runtime and tools.
- Configure firewall rules that use the new NFT back end.
Who Needs to Attend
This course is designed to provide a preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 to experienced IT professionals, including:
- Linux system administrators
- DevOps engineers
- Cloud administrators
Prerequisites
Become a Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), or demonstrate equivalent knowledge of and experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Course Outline
- Preview Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Describe the major improvements and feature enhancements in the upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 release.
- Install and upgrade to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or upgrade an existing system from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
- Provision and manage servers
- Prepare standardized systems by generating system images for deployment, managing them with remote web-based administration, and automating provisioning with Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Roles for Red Hat® Ansible Engine.
- Adapt to core system changes
- Manage core system components that have had significant changes in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
- Implement storage using new features
- Explore the major enhancements in local and remote file system and volume management components.
- Manage containers with the new runtime
- Explain the new container runtime engine and tools that replace the Docker container engine
- Implement enhanced networking features
- Describe the major enhancements in network packet processing and network device management.
- Adapt to virtualization improvements
- Learn to implement new features and management tools for virtualization management.
- Note: Course outline is subject to change with technology advances and as the nature of the underlying job evolves.