From the Command Line to the Cloud is a four session class taught by Mark Lehmann and Boyd Hemphill. The class meets on the following Mondays:

Monday, November 28
Monday, December 5
Monday, December 12
Monday, December 19

DETAILS:

This class is designed for individuals who have no prior experience with Linux (or Unix) and no prior experience with the command line. The goal is to send the attendees home with basic Unix skills as well as the ability to deploy basic applications in a cloud environment.

These are some of the topics that will be covered in the course:

- What are the must-know Linux commands?
- What are the likely problems you'll encounter as a power user or a basic admin? and how do you identify them?
- What is the Unix philosophy? How can you utilize this philosophy at the command line?
- What is grep and what are regular expressions?
- Forget the hardware. How do you do all of this in the cloud? 

Course materials will be provided by the instructor.
Students are requested to sign up for a basic EC2 account at Amazon. The cost is negligible. ($0.10/Gbyte/Month fee for EBS storage over 10Gbytes)

This class will be followed by the Introduction to Scripting with Bash class.

SYLLABUS

November 28, 2011 - Day 1 highlights

Login with your Rackspace Account and the beauty of clouds - passwd

The editor you can count on - vim

.profile - social media before the world wide web

Navigating the file system - ls, cd,pwd

Where things are - http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html

Look but don’t touch - less, head, tail

Search before there was Google (or Alta Vista!) - find

Open Sesame - chown, chmod

December 5, 2011 - Day 2 highlights

The power of the pipe, the non-hippie version dude - man, |, history, grep

Where things go - >, >>

Running things like clockwork - cron, 2>&1

Who to blame - tail, head, grep, syslog

Installing software - apt-get

Managing your relationship with your session(s) - screen, &, ctl-z, fg

Ikea for the command line - mv, rm, cp, tar, gzip

Some fatal mistakes - mv, rm, cp  

The beauty of the cloud, reprise

December 12, 2011 - Day 3 highlights

Being root is stupid, don’t be stupid - useradd, passwd

Level up - sudo, su

Keeping your shields up - aptitude, apt-get

How Santa really knows who’s been naughty and nice - /var/log/auth.log, tail, screen, grep

What’s happening? - top, ps, kill

Honey, where’s my super suit - locate, grep

December 19, 2011 - Day 4 highlights

Some clouds are fluffier than others - Comparing Rackspace and Amazon

Welcome to the Jungle - An Overview of the Amazon Cloud offering

Bringing up your own server in the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Advanced topics on the command line.

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS:

Mark Lehmann and Boyd Hemphill are veteran instructors of GeekAustin classes. Their most recent classes were MySQL Associate Certification Prep and Topics in MySQL Replication. 

Boyd Hemphill works for Feedmagnet (www.feedmagnet.com) as the Chief System Architect.  In practice that means he spends about 50% of his time masquerading as a System Administrator in the Rackspace Cloud.  The other 50% is waiting for code to compile … of course (www.http://xkcd.com/303/).

Boyd has played the role of database developer, application developer, system architect, database administrator and high school mathematics teacher in his previous iterations.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/BoydHemphill  

Mark Lehmann is the MySQL Administrator and a Cloud Administrator for Morningstar Commodity Data, Inc.  Mark enjoys community technical groups, photography, camping, and teaching technical topics.  With over 20 years of IT experience, Mark has worked as a systems programmer, web developer, technical lead, and DBA for several companies including IBM, ADP, Rocket Software, Creditcards.com, Dell, and Morningstar.  Mark also owns his own consulting company that produces custom point of sales solutions for Party City Austin.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/mlehmann

For additional information, send a note to classes@geekaustin.org