[tech] Anyone interested in running a "Linux Sysadmin Course"?

[Felix von Perger]

Dear tech subscribers,

For those of you who are currently interested and are likely to continue 
to be interested, or for those who are not currently interested but may 
consider being interested in helping to run this sysadmin course, I 
would like to hold a planning meeting at the clubroom around 2-4pm on 
Friday (26/04/2018). This Wednesday is ANZAC day so it would be 
inconvenient to hold a meeting then, however it seems that Wedesday 
4-6pm would be an ideal timeslot for holding the course itself.

If you would really like to help but can't physically make it to the 
planning meeting then let me know and IRC channels will be created as 
required.

[FVP]


On 15/04/18 23:08, Felix von Perger wrote:
>
> Dear tech subscribers,
>
> As you may be interested to know, I intend to run a series of 
> educational events at UCC with a focus on learning how to be an 
> effective sysadmin on Linux. I am, however, not a member of the wheel 
> group, and thus require some assistance in order to get things working 
> as desired and make sure everything runs smoothly.
>
> The primary motivation for this course is that UCC, as I see it, has a 
> generational gap between the older wheel members and newer members who 
> have joined in the past few years who do not have the skills to 
> maintain the Club's infrastructure. The few new wheel members who do 
> have the necessary knowledge may not, however, have enough time on 
> their own to keep everything working and up to date. As the UCC has a 
> vast amount of resources, specifically all the functioning server, 
> desktop and network hardware required to implement almost any kind of 
> enterprise-level network configuration (not limited to the current 
> network configuration), it would make sense to run an educational 
> course that teaches new members how the equipment that the club owns 
> actually works.
>
> There is also a gap (as far as I am aware) in the courses offered at 
> high schools and the University that leaves a niche, to be filled 
> almost solely by the technical server-administation side of UCC. (with 
> university students in mind, obviously more professional training 
> courses exist but those are typically not available for free or in Perth.)
>
> The premise of the course is "No linux knowledge required." 
> Unfortunately we don't seem to have a large number of Linux users 
> amongst our active members so it's good to make sure that everyone who 
> is interested feels included.
>
> So, a rough outline of the course is as follows:
>
>   * Session 1: installing Debian Linux to a VM. (Hosted on proxmox @
>     UCC) Installation done via web interface.
>       o Wheel must create empty VMs for all participants and make sure
>         that debian install media is available to use.
>   * Session 2: Configuring SSH, user accounts, etc.
>       o Wheel member should probably unfirewall SSH for all member VMs.
>       o Also include introduction to unix permissions, filesystem,
>         basic networking etc
>   * Session 3: Setting up a VPN! (who doesn't want to use a VPN for
>     everything?)
>       o Probably OpenVPN. If anyone wants to guide beginners through
>         setting up ipsec/wireguard/tinc, you may do so at your own risk.
>       o Again wheel needs to let VPN traffic through firewall.
>       o More advanced Linux networking (setting up routes, intro to
>         iptables, etc)
>   * Session 4: Understanding Linux
>       o Service diagnostics (syslog/journalctl)
>       o systemd
>       o Structure of Linux filesystem
>       o Kernel/userspace, kernel modules, processes, etc.
>       o Package management
>       o User accounts, permissions & security
>       o Manpages!
>       o Network interfaces again
>       o Either here or previous session, set up iptables firewal on
>         individual VMs and allow all traffic through murasoi
>           + In which case wheel needs to fix the firewall stuff on
>             murasoi.
>   * Session 5: Building from source!
>       o Because who doesn't want to do that.
>       o Suggestions are welcome for what to build. Ideally something
>         relevant to UCC.
>       o Currently considering `iodine`
>   * and so on. At this point people might start to realise what they
>     can actually do with a VPS and Linux and go their own ways.
>
> If you feel like you would be able to help with any part of this 
> process, or have suggestions in terms of how this would be best taught 
> or explained to people who may not have so much Linux experience, 
> please feel free to contact me.
>
> Any assistance would be very much appreciated.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Felix
> UCC Secretary 2018
>
>
>
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