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First steps 15 stages Users, permissions, and processes 13 stages Packages, services, and logs 13 stages Networking 14 stages Storage 11 stages Bash: text processing and scripts 9 stages Inside the system: resources, kernel, processes 12 stages Web stack 9 stages Server security 10 stages Containers: Docker and compose 11 stages Automation: Git and Ansible 6 stages Observability: metrics, alerts, logs 9 stages SRE practices: SLOs, incidents, redundancy 8 stages All tracks · 13 →

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First steps 7 Users, permissions, and processes 6 Packages, services, and logs 7 Networking 9 Storage 8 Bash: text processing and scripts 4 Inside the system: resources, kernel, processes 7 Web stack 7 Server security 7 Containers: Docker and compose 5 Automation: Git and Ansible 3 Observability: metrics, alerts, logs 6 SRE practices: SLOs, incidents, redundancy 5 On two machines 14 All labs · 90 →

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Basic commands bash, cd, man Files and directories touch, basename, find Text and search grep, sed, cat Users and permissions ls, chmod, id Processes ps, vmstat, jobs Services and systemd systemctl, crontab, pg_lsclusters Network ping, ip, ss Storage and file systems df, lsblk, pvs Logs and audit journalctl, tail, cat Boot update-grub, uname, sysctl Packages apt, snap Security sudo, sshd, ufw Automation ansible, ansible-playbook Containers systemctl, docker, docker-compose Observability systemctl, ss, amtool SRE awk, curl, cd Command index a–z All of the wiki · 190 →

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First steps From system basics and command input to navigation, files, text, and pipelines. 15 stages

Users, permissions, and processes From file permissions and accounts to sudo, groups and processes. 13 stages Packages, services, and logs From packages and systemd services to your own unit, the journal, schedules and log rotation. 13 stages

Storage From space diagnosis and mounting, through preparing a new disk, to logical volumes and data recovery. 11 stages Networking From addresses and routes to ports, filtering, DNS, SSH and multi-host connectivity. 14 stages Bash: text processing and scripts Searching and editing text with grep, sed and awk, your own scripts with arguments and checks, exit codes and scheduled runs with a log and a lock. 9 stages

Inside the system: resources, kernel, processes Load average and the CPU, memory and the OOM killer, process limits and kernel parameters, disk load, strace and /proc, kernel messages, the system boot and time synchronisation — up to triaging a slow server. 12 stages Web stack Sites and reverse proxy on nginx, certificates and HTTPS, PostgreSQL access and restoring from a dump — up to a site and a database on two machines. 9 stages Server security What a server exposes and what it keeps running after an update, password policy and fail2ban, a service with least privilege, AppArmor and auditd — up to getting a new server ready for publication. 10 stages Containers: Docker and compose Image and container, ports, environment and restart, your own Dockerfile, volumes, container networking and a compose stack, memory limits and the user inside a container. 11 stages Automation: Git and Ansible Configuration under git: who changed what, how to get the working version back and update a server from a repository; Ansible: inventory, ad-hoc commands and an idempotent playbook — up to configuring a second machine from the first. 6 stages Observability: metrics, alerts, logs Machine and application metrics in Prometheus and PromQL queries; alert rules and notification delivery through Alertmanager; logs from several machines on one collector and investigating with logs — up to watching a second machine from the first. 9 stages

SRE practices: SLOs, incidents, redundancy Availability and latency from a log, SLOs and error budgets; the first minutes of an incident by a runbook, rolling back a release and a blameless postmortem; a load balancer with health checks and a keepalived floating address — up to an on-call shift on two machines. 8 stages

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Medium 64
Hard 9

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First steps7
Users, permissions, and processes6
Packages, services, and logs7
Networking9
Storage8
Bash: text processing and scripts4
Inside the system: resources, kernel, processes7
Web stack7
Server security7
Containers: Docker and compose5
Automation: Git and Ansible3
Observability: metrics, alerts, logs6
SRE practices: SLOs, incidents, redundancy5
On two machines14

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The site broke after a release SRE practices: SLOs, incidents, redundancy 20 min
On-call shift two machines 50 min
Availability and p95 from the log SRE practices: SLOs, incidents, redundancy 30 min

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Basic commands bash, cd, man
Files and directories touch, basename, find
Text and search grep, sed, cat
Users and permissions ls, chmod, id
Processes ps, vmstat, jobs
Services and systemd systemctl, crontab, pg_lsclusters
Network ping, ip, ss
Storage and file systems df, lsblk, pvs
Logs and audit journalctl, tail, cat
Boot update-grub, uname, sysctl
Packages apt, snap
Security sudo, sshd, ufw
Automation ansible, ansible-playbook
Containers systemctl, docker, docker-compose
Observability systemctl, ss, amtool
SRE awk, curl, cd

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Takes requests on one address, spreads them across copies of a service and drops sick copies from rotation. On Linux it is usually nginx with an upstream block or HAProxy.

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