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Welcome to Oracle Linux Track
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This track is the place to explore Oracle Linux to help you grow your skillset using free videos and hands-on tutorials and labs. Whether you are working with traditional, cloud-based, or virtual environments, these skills will progress your knowledge into becoming a better Oracle Linux End-user, DevOps, or System Administrator.
- Introduction to Oracle Linux: New to Linux, or have a little experience working with the Linux operating system? Grow your skillset in installing and using Linux. These training materials and resources will build your knowledge on your journey to becoming a better Oracle Linux End-user or System Administrator.
- Installation and Boot Process: This page focuses on the installation and boot process. Learn how to complete an Oracle Linux installation for on-premises deployment and how to create an Oracle Linux instance on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. You can also learn about the boot process and how to configure different services to start at boot time.
- Administration: This page focuses on common administration tasks that you can perform on Oracle Linux. Learn how to configure the system date and time, automate tasks, dynamically load and unload kernel modules, configure users and groups, and explore the proc and sysfs file systems to view and configure system hardware and system processes.
- Monitoring and Logging: This page focuses on typical monitoring and logging tasks performed on a Linux system. Learn how to monitor system performance and review system logs on Oracle Linux.
- Networking: This page focuses on the configuration files, firewalls, and command line utilities to get a Linux system online. Learn how to connect Oracle Linux to the network. Being able to configure networks is an essential skill to access programs, storage and data on remote systems.
- Package Management: This page focuses on software package management, an essential skill needed to keep your Oracle Linux system up to date with the latest software enhancements, bug fixes, and security patches. Oracle Linux 8 introduced DNF, which replaces YUM, and in this track, we cover how to use DNF, install the Oracle UEK kernel and how to add repositories.
- Oracle Ksplice: Learn to install, configure and use Oracle Ksplice to provide rebootless kernel and critical user-space updates. Oracle Ksplice allows you to install the latest kernel and key user-space security and bug fix updates while the system is running.
- Remote Management: Learn how to establish secure connections to remote Oracle Linux systems. With secure connections, all traffic transmitted over the wire is encrypted and protected from password sniffing attacks and other outside monitoring.
- Storage Management: Get started on using fdisk, formatting, filesystems, and disk encryption. Whether manually partitioning your primary disk, adding additional disks for storage, or creating shared storage, working with disks is a skill all Linux Administrators should know.
- Virtualization: This page contains lessons on KVM, VirtualBox, Containers and Kubernetes. It covers lessons on installation, management, creation and other aspects related to using virtualization on Oracle Linux. Learn to take advantage of Linux virtualization and run operating systems as guests within Oracle Linux.
- Oracle Linux How-To: This page provides you information to help you grow your diagnostic and troubleshooting skillset using Oracle Linux. Whether you are working with traditional, cloud-based, or virtual environments, these skills will progress your knowledge into becoming a better Oracle Linux End-user, DevOps, or System Administrator.