Linux Tutorials and Projects (Free)

Three hands-on projects

This Linux course is built around three practical projects: installing an SSL certificate on CentOS with Apache, load balancing HTTP traffic with Nginx, and configuring MySQL master-slave replication on Ubuntu. Each one is a real task that system administrators meet regularly.

Learning from a working practitioner

The instructor describes a long career as a Unix and Linux systems engineer and says the lessons draw on that real-world experience. That context helps explain why the projects focus on production-style setups rather than toy examples.

How to approach the projects

• Set up each project on a virtual machine so you can reset it if something breaks.
• Compare the Apache and Nginx approaches to serving web traffic.
• Note the replication steps for MySQL, since they transfer to other database servers.