Over 80% of Fortune 500 companies run Red Hat Enterprise Linux — yet a growing skills gap means organizations struggle to find administrators who can build, secure, and maintain hosts with confidence. This Short Course was created to help IT Support and Operations professionals accomplish end-to-end RHEL 10 host administration, from first boot to production compliance. By completing this course, you'll be able to provision enterprise-grade servers, enforce organizational security baselines, and manage system updates safely — skills you can apply at work the very next day. By the end of this course, you will be able to: • Apply RHEL 10 installation and baseline configuration steps to provision storage, networking, and user accounts on a new enterprise host • Evaluate host security posture by configuring SELinux, firewall rules, and SSH settings, then verifying compliance with organizational baselines • Analyze systemd, dnf, and log outputs to plan and execute safe configuration changes while maintaining service uptime This course is unique because it combines hands-on LVM storage, bonded NIC provisioning, SELinux enforcing-mode hardening, and kernel update scheduling into one cohesive workflow tied to real enterprise compliance standards. To be successful in this course, you should have foundational Linux command-line experience and basic familiarity with system administration concepts at a CB2 intermediate level.

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Security is built in, not bolted on. Hardening SELinux, firewalld, and SSH during provisioning is more reliable than retrofitting compliance later.
Log-driven decisions protect uptime. Reviewing systemd, dnf history, and journalctl before changes separates planned maintenance from incidents.
Standardized provisioning enables scalability. Repeatable LVM, bonded NIC, and user-group configs make systems auditable and faster to replicate.
Compliance and operations are inseparable. Baseline checks are an ongoing discipline connecting host configuration to organizational risk posture.
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April 2026
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