Final Review (New Topics)

Project 3

New Topics to know

Ansible
  • All content
Monitoring: Nagios
  • Components of Nagios
  • Passive vs. Active
  • Nagios configuration basics
Monitoring Concepts
  • Definitions of terms
  • Desirable sensitivity / specificity

New Topics to know

High Availability & Scaling
  • Definitions of terms
  • Horizontal vs. Vertical Scaling
Load Balancers / HAProxy
  • Layer 4 & 7 load balancing
  • Scheduling Algorithms
Containers
  • Components & Definition

New Topics to know

Virtualization
  • Definitions of hypervisors, KVM, QEMU & libvirt
Distributed Systems
  • Basics of Service Discovery
Security
  • SELinux basics
  • IPTables basics