Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 8, South Africa

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This course will help prepare your staff to be ready for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 from day one, giving your organization a preview of the changes in the core Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system used by the applications, services, and other infrastructure in your data center. This preview will allow you to more effectively plan upgrades to and the rollout of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, and prepare you to quickly take advantage of new features and changes for your business and your use cases.

Become a Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), or demonstrate equivalent knowledge of and experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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

As a result of attending this course, you will be prepared to work with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and take advantage of key new features of the operating system. You should be able to demonstrate these skills:

Describe key features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Install or upgrade an existing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 server to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Manage software with the upgraded Yum package manager and select specific software versions through module streams.
Use new storage tools to compress and deduplicate data and efficiently manage the storage stack from hardware to file system.
Adjust to changes to core components of the operating system, including Python 3, Wayland, and Chrony-based NTP service.
Work with the new nftables-backed firewall system.
Configure servers efficiently with the updated web-based remote interface and with Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Roles.

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 the new features and management tools for virtualization management.

Upcoming Trainings

Join our public courses in our South Africa facilities. Private class trainings will be organized at the location of your preference, according to your schedule.

Classroom / Virtual Classroom

13 November 2024