Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

About this course

This course features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. Master the foundational and advanced capabilities of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8) to confidently manage Linux environments. Through this comprehensive course, you'll gain practical skills in system installation, configuration, networking, storage, and security tailored to enterprise-grade deployments. The course starts with core system administration tasks, including installation, working with systemd, and software management. It then progresses to automation techniques using Kickstart, enabling scalable deployments. Next, you’ll explore network configuration, time synchronization, and NFS setup, preparing you to operate RHEL servers in real-world environments. You’ll delve into advanced storage management using LVM and XFS, perform backups and snapshots, and utilize the System Storage Manager. Security modules focus on SELinux, firewalld, SSH hardening, and disk encryption, capped off with real-time troubleshooting strategies and system performance monitoring. Designed for IT professionals, system administrators, and network engineers, this intermediate-level course assumes a basic familiarity with Linux. It’s ideal for anyone looking to manage secure, scalable RHEL systems in a professional setting.

Course objectives

• to master foundational and advanced capabilities of RHEL 8
• to prepare for managing secure and scalable RHEL systems in professional settings
• to develop real-time troubleshooting and performance monitoring skills