as 2100 Lina Sym Attra ean OPC aNd Linux System Administrator Projects Ifyou are looking to gain some experience as a Linux system edministrator, check out the list of ideas below. For each project on the list you could do it on multiple Linux distributions, You could also start about by learning the bare minimum necessary to complete one of these projects, then take it to the next level by making it fault tolerant or learning how to scale it. Create a virtual machine for your projects or try them on your own server hosted at Digital Qceon. Scratch Your Own Itch Find a real need you have and fil it using a Linux based solution. This is one of the most rewarding ways to learn Linux. For example, + Do you need somewhere to store work related documentation or notes? Then install a Wiki on Linux. + Want to start a blog? Host it on Linux! ‘+ Want to stream online content to your TV or other devices in your home? Then build a Linux media server. The next time you have a technical need and want to get some extra Linux practice, see if you can solve your problem with Linux Configure the LAMP Stack pswrtrarnacasenycomacres 0 sas 2100 La ne hit rn toy LAMP stands for Linux Apache MySQL and PHP. It's @ very common architecture for web applications, it you think about the LAMP stack in broad terms you have an operating system (Linux), a web server (Apache), a database tier (MySQq), and a programming language (PHP). You can substitue different solutions for each component. Try configuring the LAMP stack on Cento, then Ubuntu, instead of using Apache you could use NGINX or lighttpd. For the database you could use PostgresQt, MariaD8, or MongoD8. instead of using PHP, why not try Python? Ifyou want to take ita step further and learn how to set up a highly available and scalable LAMP Stack, check out the High Availabilty for the LAMP Stack Course, + Linux * Apache = Mysql + PHP Deploy an Open Source Application Find an application that you would be interested in using and deploy it. Even if you don’t end up using the application you'll have gained the experience of setting it up. * Alfresco * Bugzilla = DokuWiki + Drupal + Etherpad Lite * Gitla * Joomla = Mediawiki estanulnatrarngcaeny somos anoas 2100 Lina yn ttre ne rn end Moodle osTicket ‘Owncloud phpgs PunBB Redmine SorviceDesk Plus ‘SugarCRM Trac Twiki WordPress Zen Cart Configure Common Services - Client AND Server cron curs DHCP ons Email (SMTP, POP, IMAP) Lap NES Nis NIP SSH Configure Monitoring psrntrarnacsenycomacres as 21004 Lina Sn Mitr rt rn ead Cacti Icing Monit Munin Nagios ‘OpenNMs Zabbix Zenoss Create a Build System Cobbler FAL Foreman Kickstart Razor ‘Spacewalk Create a Centralized Syslog Server ELK Stack Elasticsearch, Logstash & Kibana Fluentd Logstash Kibana splunk syslog-ng estanulnatrarngcaeny somosas 2100 Lina yn ttre ne rn end System Automation Ansible chet MakeFiles and/or RakeFiles Puppet Salt Stack Write shell Scripts Cluster All The Things + Load balance web servers or other services using HAProxy + Create a MySQl Cluster + Create a GlusterFs Cluster + Red Hat Cluster (Conga) Build a NAS NES samba Netatalk ‘Open Media Vault EasyNAS Rockstor Host Your Own Personal Cloud psntrarnacasenycomacres a as 21004 Lina Sn Mitr rt rn ead ‘Owncloud NextCloud Rockstor Seatile Cozy Cloud Tonido Practice Migrating Data + Migrate data from a disk on one server to a disk on another server. + Migrate Databases. * Live migrations + Export | import Create and Manage Users + FreeiPa + iDaP +s + sor name ideas: htp/ aww fakenamegenerator.com/ Configure a Backup Server = Amanda * Bacula + Rsnapshot * Reyne + SSH eetanunatraringcaeny semanas oyas 210 Configure a Firewall * [Ptables * Firewall = UEW Lina Sym Admits ren nn andy Learn LVM + Create and restore snapshots + Extend volumes without downtime Configure a Proxy Server + Forward Proxy '* Apache * Squid + Reverse Proxy * Apache * NOINX + Pound Learn Revision Control + evs + it + RCS esta nataeincaerysomtnaerje